Germany to Deport Hundreds of Islamists - Magazine

Yahoo News ^ | January 22 2005 | Reuters

[knighthawk]

BERLIN (Reuters) - German officials are drawing up lists of hundreds of Islamic militants to be deported from the country under a new law making expulsions easier, the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel said on Saturday.

Der Spiegel said authorities were already using their powers under an immigration law introduced this month in conducting an operation dubbed "Aktion Kehraus" ("Action Sweep Out").

The Interior Ministry declined to comment on the report beyond saying that deportations were a matter for Germany's 16 federal states.

Under new rules, potential deportees will not be able to use normal legal channels to challenge an expulsion order. A special panel of the Federal Administrative Court will be responsible, with no right of appeal.

Der Spiegel said judges were expected to deal with up to 2,000 cases per year.

Since the revelations in 2001 that Arab students who had lived for years in Hamburg led the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, Germans have questioned their liberal laws under which some suspected militants even draw welfare benefits.

Interior Minister Otto Schily has suggested that evidence of training at an al Qaeda camp should be clear grounds for expelling a foreign national. Distributing videos calling for "holy war" could also be punished the same way.

[expatguy]

Do you think our country has the resolve yet to do such a thing?

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[Publius6961]

The most important question that comes immediately to mind is why only "hundreds"?

Without an infrastructure, the real killers could not operate.

[26lemoncharlie]

We need to start about four years ago. Let's get ALL of them out, and the Illegal aliens.

[Fiddlstix]

Well, it's a start anyway.......

[Trippin]

But watch what happens if the US tries to do the same thing. The ACLU and terrorist apologisers CAIR will be all over it like flies on a turd.

[P.O.E.]

They're just "Gastarbeiter", doing the jobs Germans refuse to do.

[Vigilantcitizen]

About time.

[William of Orange]

If the islamists are that stupid the Germans my demand they be deported into the air if history serves as a guide.

I can guarantee you more Germans would support that than would have 5 years ago. Just look at a few regions particularly the ones in the east, who have elected "neo-nazi's" into regional parliaments, the way Adolf & co got started. Can't happen again you said? I'm not saying it will but...

[Bon mots]

Maybe they will go to Iran where the American army is waiting to kill them.

Huh? Iran??? Last I heard, the American Army was in Iraq

America is terror free as of 11:46am cst 1/22/05.

True enough. But we were also Terror free from the last Bin Laden attack on the WTC in 1993... about 8 years. I don't want to get complacent just yet.

[NoClones]

give these 'islamists' a choice, deportation or an oven...

sorry, too harsh - deportation to saudi arabia maybe?

[seppel]

about the only good thing the red-green trash ruling this country has done so far.

[Lazamataz]

Germany to Deport Hundreds of Islamists

Europe is starting to get it.

[fso301]

bump

[Natural Law]

I hope they put them on a train headed east.

[FreeAtlanta]

They should encourage them to come to Iraq and die. Maybe the could embed a homing device that our guys can use find and target them.

Oh, wait, Germany doesn't support our actions against Islamic fanatics in Iraq.

[.45MAN]

Well France is next door and Spain is just around the corner. Both countries have a major Muslim population They would be less noticable in Spain..

[night reader]

German officials are drawing up lists of hundreds of Islamic militants to be deported from the country...

If the Krauts don't want 'em, we don't need'em!!! Hope Germany will supply all names so that they can be entered onto the "Do Not Allow Entry" list... or better yet the "Shoot On Sight" list!!!

[Eurotwit]

Norway just deported an Afghan terrorist for the eight time.

He just keeps coming back...

[Go Gordon]

where are they going to expel them to and who is going to take them?

Detroit and Newark