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Germany frees killer of U.S. diver
CNN ^
| 12/20/05
| Correspondent Chris Burns
Posted on 12/20/2005 7:10:50 AM PST by minus_273
BERLIN, Germany (CNN) -- A Hezbollah militant sentenced to life in Germany for murdering a U.S. Navy diver during the 1985 hijacking of a U.S. jetliner has been freed, officials said.
The German government denied on Tuesday the release was related to the freeing of a German hostage in Iraq.
Mohammed Ali Hamadi was released Thursday and allowed to return to his native Lebanon on the next day, after qualifying for parole after 19 years in prison, said Ulrich Hermanski, spokesman for the North Rhine Wesphalia state justice ministry.
"There was no special treatment," Hermanski said in a telephone interview.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: americahaters; appeasement; axisofappeasement; beirut; eurabia; eurotrash; flight847; germancapitulation; germany; iraq; islamofascism; lebanon; mohammedalihamadi; navy; robbiestethem; robertdeanstethem; robertstethem; stethem; twa; twa847; twaflight847; usnavy; ussstethem; wot
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To: boomop1
No can do. It might upset Stevie Spielberg and his fellow terrorist appeaser, Tony Kushner.
81
posted on
12/20/2005 8:07:38 AM PST
by
Cecily
To: boomop1
Yes I think they will give him what he deserves.
82
posted on
12/20/2005 8:08:04 AM PST
by
pepperhead
(Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
To: Atlantic Bridge
There would have been no chance of a extradition to the United States since in your country he would have been threatened by capital punishment. A absolute no-no which is strictly forbidden throughout Europe. This fact alone is enough to prove that Europe is no ally of America.
83
posted on
12/20/2005 8:12:26 AM PST
by
Smile-n-Win
(Don't let her take things away from you on behalf of the public good!)
To: Atlantic Bridge
I guess we know what kind of osti Merkel is now.
84
posted on
12/20/2005 8:17:02 AM PST
by
PAR35
To: Smile-n-Win
This fact alone is enough to prove that Europe is no ally of America. If you think so.
To: HereInTheHeartland
Haven't we got any operatives in or near Lebanon, perhaps a team of individuals who could be motivated to seek out this murderous thug?
And, no, I wasn't suggesting that he "arrested," except perhaps in the cardiac sense.
86
posted on
12/20/2005 8:19:39 AM PST
by
Redbob
To: minus_273
"A Hezbollah militant...""Militant?"
Did CNN really use the word "militant" to describe this miserable piece of scheiss?
87
posted on
12/20/2005 8:22:00 AM PST
by
Redbob
To: Wristpin
Is it really that stupid? When that wall came down millions of socialists were given liberty, which they didn't earn. Thus we have the new "enlightened" Germany. Yeah, and Emancipation liberated millions of slaves who didn't understand what Freedom was all about, leaving us with an underclass we still have to deal with.
88
posted on
12/20/2005 8:22:34 AM PST
by
Paradox
(Time to sharpen ole Occam's Razor.)
To: Atlantic Bridge
Bush should pardon several people who murdered europeans in the US.
89
posted on
12/20/2005 8:23:01 AM PST
by
omega4179
(Seal the borders.)
To: Redbob
yup. millitant, insurgent, freedom fighter all part of the liberal vocabualry.
To: Atlantic Bridge
That European countries do not execute murderers is no surprise. Their temerity in the face of their own demise is predictable and terminal. The United States saved Germany on two ocassions. That was Germany's good fortune. That was also our dire mistake.
I can almost assure you that it will not happen again.
To: minus_273
my post was removed for a reason only the moderator knows! Let the people read the truth!
92
posted on
12/20/2005 8:23:53 AM PST
by
splint
(...moderator, let the people read number 60, why did you remove!)
To: PAR35
I guess we know what kind of osti Merkel is now. As far as I know there are laws and convictions in Germany that after a certain timespan offenders have to be released if they do not pose a threat to the public. This is probably the reason why he was freed by the country Hessen. Merkel has nothing to do with it.
To: Semper Paratus
Looks like it's time for a little "wet work".
94
posted on
12/20/2005 8:24:24 AM PST
by
headstamp
(Nothing lasts forever, Unless it does.)
To: minus_273
The German government also denied there was any link between Hamadi's release and the freeing of Suzanne Osthoff, a German archaeologist, in Iraq last week. Riiiiiiight.
95
posted on
12/20/2005 8:24:38 AM PST
by
cgk
(I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
To: minus_273
To: minus_273
>The German government denied on Tuesday the release was related to the freeing of a German hostage in Iraq.
B.S.
97
posted on
12/20/2005 8:25:26 AM PST
by
MindBender26
(Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry......)
To: tenthirteen
To: JBR34
Or maybe a wayward drone fired missile will fall on him.
99
posted on
12/20/2005 8:28:34 AM PST
by
rockthecasbah
(4th & 9. 1:32 left in the 4th quarter. Down by 3 at Notre Dame. No problem. Fight on!)
To: Smile-n-Win; Atlantic Bridge
What's totally ironic about all this criticism leveled at Germany in this case is that the German government basically did something that the U.S. would not have done itself . . . it arrested, tried, and convicted a man in Germany for a crime committed completely outside their legal jurisdiction no matter how you look at it -- since the incident: 1) occurred aboard an American airliner, 2) occurred on a flight that originated in Greece, and 3) culminated at an airport in Beirut, Lebanon.
Of all the nations involved, Germany had the most tenuous connection of all. The only reason they had any interest at all was that the terrorist in question was apprehended in Germany. They tried him for this crime even though under U.S. standards of justice they probably would have had no recourse but to deport him to Lebanon.
100
posted on
12/20/2005 8:30:20 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
(What it all boils down to is that no one's really got it figured out just yet.)
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