August 29, 1969. A young woman, wearing a white suit, sunhat and big shades sits at Roma airport, awaiting flight TWA 840. She looks nervous - but then so do many imminent flyers. But this Audrey Hepburn lookalike in her summer outfit has smuggled a gun and hand grenades past airport security, and is pretending not to know the man across the room. He is Salim Issawi, a fellow combatant of the Che Guevara Commando Unit of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. She is Leila Khaled. She is evasive but amiable to the fellow passenger trying to chat her up. Leila Khaled and Salim Issawi force the plane to divert from its course to Athens and fly over Khaleds birthplace, Haifa, a city which as a Palestinian refugee she can no longer visit. Scaring but not harming the terrified passengers, the plane is ordered to head for Damascus where its nose cone is blown up. The press are intrigued by the girl hijacker, but months after the hijacking, Khaled it berated by the PFLPs leader, George Habash, for refusing to speak to TV crews. Instead, she goes under the knife, undergoing six sessions of plastic surgery. She knows that more missions have been planned for her, and she doesnt want to be recognizable. Luta, mulher! 8 de março não é pra dar rosas e dizer feliz dia da mulher é mais um dia de luta!
Posted on: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 17:53:25 +0000
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