'Achille Lauro' PODs

In Oct 1985, in response to the 'Achille Lauro' hijacking and the execution of disabled Jewish American Leon Klinghoffer by Palestinian militants, the Reagan admin decided to take assertive action against the terrorists by ordering the mid-air interception of the Egyptian airliner on which they were travelling after they'd taken the ship to Tunisia. The operation involved F14 Tomcats from the USS SARATOGA being scrambled to intercept the Egyptian airliner over the Med, whose USN pilots ordered the pilot to land the plane at a US airbase so that the terrorists could be taken into US custody, or be shot down. The Egyptian pilots complied with this request, flying to and landing at the Sigonella NATO airbase, Sicily, where a specops team of Delta Force operators and Navy SEALs were waiting to apprehend the terrorists. However, there was also an Italian CARABINIERI contingent present, who had orders to take the terrorists into their custody since the base was on Italian soil, which resulted in the American and Italian teams squaring off against each other with loaded weapons while the plane waited on the tarmac. Eventually, EUCOM ordered the Delta/SEAL team to stand down, and the terrorists were taken into Italian custody: IIRC 3 were given life sentences after being tried in an Italian court for the hijack and murder, while 1 guy managed to escape (anybody got any names of these terrorists ?).

2 potential PODs in my mind arise from the incidents associated with the 'Achille Lauro':
(1)- WI the Egyptian pilot had refused to co-operate with the F14s intercepting him, and the USN pilots had opened fire ? What effect would there have been had the US actually shot down the plane carrying suspected Islamic terrorists ? OTL, the operation was already criticised on the basis of the US acting like air pirates- how much worse would things have been had the Tomcat crews followed thru with their threats and shot down the Egyptian plane ? A higher incidence of anti-American terrorist attacks ?

(2) WI the US specops guys at Sigonella ended up having a firefight with the CARABINIERI, whether by accident or in the course of fulfilling their orders to apprehend the terrorists ? Would the outrage resulting from such a shootout between supposed NATO allies have led to Italy expelling all American personnel, closing all American/NATO installations, and leaving NATO ? How badly would the US have been affected by such an incident in the longer-term, esp re later US naval encounters in early 1986 with Qaddafi's Libyan patrol boats in the Gulf of Sidra (where the 6th Fleet was dependent on Italian bases and had responded to Libyan missile attacks on NATO installations on Lipari and Lampedusa) ?
 
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