Patrick Argüello

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Patricio José Argüello Ryan called Patrick Joseph Arguello (* 29. March 1943 ; † 6. September 1970 ) was a terrorist and a member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front , which on September 6, 1970 while trying together with the terrorist Leila Khaled , a Take control of the airliner was killed.

Life

From the ages of three to 13, Argüello lived with his parents in Nicaragua . His father was Nicaraguan and his mother was American. In 1956 , after the assassination of dictator Anastasio Somoza , his family fled the country and moved to Los Angeles .

He grew up in California and took an interest in politics as a teenager . Perceived by those around him as a sensitive, introverted young man, he was fascinated by events such as the Cuban revolution, but his family did not notice these signs of revolutionary passion.

In the 1960s, Argüello earned a degree in Latin American studies from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1967 he received a Fulbright scholarship to study in Chile. In the late 1960s, he joined the Sandinista, a Marxist group that led a broad resistance movement against the Somoza dynasty in Nicaragua . The FSLN, which works internationally with other left-wing revolutionary armed groups, also maintained contacts with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

death

Argüello was shot dead by Israeli flight security officers while attempting to take control of an El Al airliner together with the PFLP terrorist Leila Chaled .

About 20 minutes after the plane took off from Amsterdam for New York on September 6, 1970 and almost reached its peak, Argüello and Khaled rose in tourist class and drew their weapons. Argüello threatened passengers and crew with a grenade and a handgun and demanded to be allowed into the cockpit. He wounded flight attendants by gunshots and by detonating a hand grenade. However, the captain of the aircraft irritated the hijackers with a surprising flight maneuver, so that flight security attendants could use the opportunity to open fire on Argüello.

Argüello was hit and, depending on the depiction, dying or already dead, carried out of the plane after it had made an emergency landing in London .

Leila Chaled claimed that Argüello had already been overwhelmed and shot dead.

Argüello's grave is located in Nicaragua in the municipality of Momotombo, part of the municipality of Nagarote ( Department of León ), where he spent his childhood.

Others

The three-man command of the Japanese Red Army that carried out the 1972 massacre at Lod Airport was identified in a letter of responsibility as the group of the martyr Patrick Arguello .

In 1983 the Sandinista government named a geothermal power plant on the Nicaraguan volcano Momotombo after Argüello. Under President Arnoldo Alemán in 2001, the name was replaced by that of Andrés Castro , a national hero of the 19th century struggle for independence.

In 2014, a controversial statement relating to Argüello caused a scandal within the Sandinista movement: In an interview, Leticia Herrera, former FSLN guerrilla fighter and mother of a child with Daniel Ortega , accused her comrade Patricio Rosales of being indirectly responsible for Argüello's death. As the political head of the organization in exile in Paris, Rosales Argüello was only assigned to the hijacking of the plane at the last minute in 1970 instead of the originally planned Herrera and her then husband, René Tejada. Argüello was therefore unaware of some of the details decided in the course of the preparation for the action, which cost him his life. Herrera was dismissed from her post as director of the Department of Conflict Mediation and Alternative Conflict Resolution (DIRAC) following the publication of the statement by the Sandinista justices of the Supreme Court, which included Rosales at the time.

literature

  • Keith Suter: All About Terrorism. Everything You Were Too Afraid To Ask. Bantam Australia, Sydney 2008, ISBN 978-1-74166-821-6 .
  • American Foreign Policy Council: The World Almanac of Islamism. 2014. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 2014, ISBN 978-1-4422-3144-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ American Experience: The American Hijacker No 1 , NN, PBS , February 14, 2006.
  2. ↑ American Experience: The American Hijacker No 2 , NN, PBS , February 14, 2006.
  3. ↑ American Experience: The American Hijacker No 3 , NN, PBS , February 14, 2006.
  4. ↑ See for example Keith Suter: All About Terrorism. 2008, pp. 55-57.
  5. ↑ American Experience: The American Hijacker No 4 , NN, PBS , February 14, 2006.
  6. ↑ Comunidad de Momotombo honra la memoria de Patricio Argüello Ryan. In: El 19 of September 7, 2015, accessed on June 6, 2016 (Spanish)
  7. ↑ See, for example, American Foreign Policy Council: The World Almanac of Islamism 2014. 2014, p. 72.
  8. ↑ Marshall Yurow: Biografia de Patricio Arguello Ryan (1943-1970). sandinovive.org February 12, 2005
  9. ↑ Noel Hernandez Ramos: Cambiarán nombre a Planta Momotombo. In: La Prensa, October 26, 2001, accessed June 6, 2016 (Spanish)
  10. ↑ Comandante Leticia. In: El Periódico of November 30, 2014, accessed June 6, 2016 (Spanish)
  11. ↑ Destituyen a Leticia Herrera de la Dirac. In: La Prensa of November 7, 2014, accessed June 6, 2016 (Spanish)
personal data
SURNAME Argüello, Patrick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Argüello Ryan, Patricio José; Arguello, Patrick Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Terrorist and hijacker
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1943
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1970