1982 airline bomber still in immigration custody

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Jordanian-born Palestinian convicted in a 1982 airline bombing that killed a Japanese teenager remains in federal immigration custody one year after being released from prison.

Mohammed Rashed, 64, was freed from prison last March after spending more than two decades in custody in Greece and the United States. But as of Wednesday, he remained at a federal immigration detention facility in Batavia, N.Y., where he is awaiting deportation, said Vincent Picard, a spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.