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Alaa Elassar

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🇵🇸🇪🇬 Journalist for @CNN Digital. Master's grad @ColumbiaJourn. Ex CNN International, Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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A new search for Lynette Hooker in the Bahamas ends without answers about the missing American sailor

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By Alaa Elassar 
| WDJT-TV (Milwaukee, WI)
By Alaa Elassar (CNN) — The disappearance of Lynette Hooker in the waters off the Bahamas in April has put a lingering cloud of speculation over her husband and set off a federal criminal investigation, paving the way for a renewed search this month and new questions about what happened the night she went missing.
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A new search for Lynette Hooker in the Bahamas raises more questions about how she disappeared while sailing with her husband

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By Alaa Elassar 
| KESQ-TV (Thousand Palms, CA)
By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — The disappearance of Lynette Hooker in the waters off the Bahamas in April has put a lingering cloud of speculation over her husband and set off a federal criminal investigation, paving the way for a renewed search and new questions about what happened the night she went missing. Her husband, Brian Hooker, said the American boater fell overboard and vanished in rough waters despite his attempts to reach her as the pair, married for 25 years, traveled in a dinghy.
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United flight diverted to Madison after passenger’s ‘multiple attempts’ to breach cockpit, crew member says

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By Alaa Elassar , Martin Goillandeau 
| Madison365
United Airlines planes sit parked at San Francisco International Airport on January 20 in San Francisco, California. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images via CNN Newsource) By Alaa Elassar, Martin Goillandeau, CNN (CNN) — A United Airlines flight from Chicago to Minneapolis diverted to Madison, Wisconsin, on Friday night after an “unruly passenger” caused a security concern on board, the airline said.
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