Exclusive | Brother of Navy diver killed in 1985 Hezbollah hijack says the world is a better place with Nasrallah not in it

A retired Navy SEAL whose brother was killed by Hezbollah terrorists expressed relief when he heard that Hassan Nasrallah was killed.“When the sun went down yesterday, the world was a better place with Nasrallah not in it,” Kenneth Stethem told The Post on Saturday, less than 24 hours after Nasrallah, 64, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb.“Ever since [Hezbollah’s] inception in 1982, Nasrallah and others like him have caused much death and destruction,” he said.Stethem would know: His brother, Navy diver Robert Dean “Robbie” Stethem, was killed by Hezbollah terrorists during the June 1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacking.Robbie, 23, was returning from an assignment in Greece when the plane was hijacked by a pair of terrorists who demanded the release of 766 Palestinian and Lebanese inmates held in Israel.The hijackers initially flew the plane to the Beirut airport, where an “enraged terrorist” beat Robbie before fatally shooting him in the head and tossing his body onto the tarmac, according to the US Navy Memorial. His face and body were reportedly so badly mangled that he could only be identified by his fingerprints.“I remember when they came to the door and told us.The sound that came from [our mother] sounded like an animal that had just been hit by a car.

Never, never heard screams like that before,” Kevin Stethem told The Post of the moment the family learned their son and brother had been murdered.Stethem planned to break the news about Nasrallah’s death to his father, now 88, on Saturday.When they last spoke two days ago, as Israel was bombarding Hezbollah, Stethem said he told his father, “Lady karma doesn’t forget, and tonight in Israel, the same people responsible for killing Rob are hearing bombs go off all around them.”“He’s going to be grateful that [Hezbollah] was damaged as badly as they were damaged,” he told The Post of how he expected his dad to respond to the update.Stethem’s mother died two year...