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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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To: rawhide

Simple: the state of Hesse and not the federal level is responsible for the release. And anybody knowing Germany isn´t wondering about 19 years imprisonment for murder (see post 105). It´s obvious that there´s no connection to the Iraq hostage case.


221 posted on 12/20/2005 11:54:05 PM PST by Michael81Dus
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To: gogogodzilla

Wow, a really civilized behaviour. What actually are you defending in the WOT? Your life, your family? Ok, but surely not what we use to call "western values".


222 posted on 12/20/2005 11:56:18 PM PST by Michael81Dus
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To: ZULU

His brother Kenneth was a SEAL. I hope they will enact some form of justice for this pig...

Ed


223 posted on 12/20/2005 11:58:04 PM PST by Sir_Ed
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To: Mr. Rational

I´m German. And I know that jailtime between 15 and 18 years are usual for murder. So 19 years for Hammadi were above the average. It´s obvious that there´s no connection with the hostage in Iraq. And if you don´t believe a "Kraut", read post #105.


224 posted on 12/20/2005 11:59:10 PM PST by Michael81Dus
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To: Mr. Rational

There is a old German saying: Different countries - different customs. (Andere Länder - andere Sitten)

It is common in Germany to release people after 15-20 years that would have been executed in the US. Our justice did that i.e. with the former RAF-members (a German leftist terrorist group that killed many of our compatriots). Our justice still doing it with all kinds of murderers and offenders.

Therefore it was a quite normal act to our authorities. The timing of course was complete BS.

BTW - as far as I know your executive is also bound to the valid law in the US. They have good reason not to break any legal rules. Your administration had to create such a place like Gitmo and laws like the "patriot act" to get rid of the bothering US-justice and its wide possibilities for offenders. Since Germany is no participant of the WOT of President Bush, we do not have such "infrastructure" to neutralize our legal system. Furthermore is Germany no banana republic where a "leader" can keep prisoners in a dungeon due to foreign pressure without any leagal backing. If Germany would do that it would be a real sign of weakness.

Personally I do not think that this man ever should have gone free, but we have a justice system that I and all my other compatriots have to respect. Therefore I and other Germans who take part in this discussion are in a difficult situation to argue.


225 posted on 12/21/2005 12:21:05 AM PST by Atlantic Bridge (O tempora! O mores!)
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To: Michael81Dus
"This is what Germany understands as Justice."
"The German government had no influence on this, nor was the release of the German hostage in Iraq an issue here."

I suspect you also believe in the tooth fairy, too.....

I'm an unapologetic cynic, and I see this as a snatch of a German citizen to ASSURE the earliest possible release of a murderous Jihadist -- or Germany simply attempting to show their cooperation with their fellow Jew Hating Muslim sand Nazis..

This was NOT a serendipitous coincidence.

Semper Fi

226 posted on 12/21/2005 12:21:12 AM PST by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: river rat
I see this as a snatch of a German citizen to ASSURE the earliest possible release of a murderous Jihadist

The earliest possible release of this guy would have been after 15 years to my knowlege.

227 posted on 12/21/2005 12:30:39 AM PST by Atlantic Bridge (O tempora! O mores!)
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To: Mr. Rational

Ah yes, Winston Churchill who said: "We slaughtered the wrong pig" and that the mass expulsion and killings of Germans from eastern Europe and East Prussia at the end and following WWII was the greatest human tragedy of modern times...Of course, he was also the man who planned to bombard Germany's largest cities with anthrax.

"Advance to Barbarism" and "'Twas A Famous Victory" are two good books to read regarding the dark side of our "Crusade in Europe," not that they'd necessarily interest you but they might others reading this thread.


228 posted on 12/21/2005 12:57:03 AM PST by Lessingham (Robert Aickman and Russell Kirk: The Best Ghost Story Writers Were On the Political Right)
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To: Michael81Dus

Well said. By the way, Germany's contribution to the coalition in Afghanistan is greatly appreciated by this American. Please keep posting away; your comments are always a tonic, and patently called for.


229 posted on 12/21/2005 1:32:43 AM PST by Lessingham (Robert Aickman and Russell Kirk: The Best Ghost Story Writers Were On the Political Right)
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To: Atlantic Bridge

What a crock of Sauerkraut. We didn't invent GTMO to circumvent our legal system. Never in our history have we given "PRISONERS OF WAR" even illegal combatants acces to our legal system. If I'm not mistaken, Germany is no different. Ever heard of Stalag 13.

And no one gives a crap if Germany wants to let killers and terrorist go free to buy themselves another day or two before the terrorist turn on them, but if this wasn't giving into the terrorist, Germany could have extradited the piece of filth.


230 posted on 12/21/2005 2:19:38 AM PST by NavVet (“Benedict Arnold was wounded in battle fighting for America, but no one remembers him for that.”)
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To: Atlantic Bridge; Squantos; Travis McGee
".....offenders have to be released if they do not pose a threat to the public."

I would love to hear how the Germans decided this piece of shit was no longer a "threat to the public"....

Does that apply only to the German "public", or the "public" that Americans and Jews live in?

Germany, along with France - has become a real piece of work.....

Germans must be aware that many see them as just a little too cozy with the Jew killing sand Nazis of Islam.....

Semper Fi

231 posted on 12/21/2005 2:23:28 AM PST by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: river rat

Sempre Fi...well said


232 posted on 12/21/2005 2:27:03 AM PST by rrrod
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To: Atlantic Bridge
"The earliest possible release of this guy would have been after 15 years to my knowledge."

Ah yes....but the Islamanazis didn't have a German hostage until just recently -- did they?

Coincidence? I doubt it....

Trust is hard to come by, when an "ally" behaves predictably counter to ones best interests or national security.....

Semper Fi

233 posted on 12/21/2005 2:38:46 AM PST by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: NavVet
The funny thing is that the membership of Hezbollah was no problem for Germany in 1989, since at that time German justice did not consider the membership of foreign terrorist groups in its lawsuits. That changed after 9/11 when Germany adjusted some of its laws to the new situation. Since Hamadi was never convicted because of the membership in a terrorist group, it is quite likely (I do not know the exact circumstances of course) that this didn't play any role in his evaluation.

Germany could have extradited the piece of filth.

This would be simply impossible. Just take a look at my #80.

234 posted on 12/21/2005 3:05:09 AM PST by Atlantic Bridge (O tempora! O mores!)
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To: river rat

If you do not trust me than maybe you trust your own compatriots. Take a look a #105.


235 posted on 12/21/2005 3:09:05 AM PST by Atlantic Bridge (O tempora! O mores!)
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To: 359Henrie
It was the lack of response that hurt. Somebody needed to be whacked, something pounded.

Ah, understood.

236 posted on 12/21/2005 3:43:30 AM PST by Coop (FR = a lotta talk, but little action)
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To: Michael81Dus

It is not Western values to free a terrorist murderer (for the release of a German hostage or not).

Anyone who does is NOT a follower of Western values. Furthermore, the old standard of explaining why that was wrong is no longer working vis a vis Europe. The European 'elite' simply blows off our warnings as nonsense spoken by a 'stupid' American.

Because of such an attitude, actions now need to replace words.

And while I've not been to Iraq/Afganistan, I came back from serving three years in South Korea in January.

Should this have happened regarding a South Korean and Japan, the South Koreans would have been rioting both in Japan and South Korea, Japanese fishing boats would be impounded on the flimsy-ist of charges, and the South Korean government would have summoned the Japanese embassador for a formal rebuke/withdrawn the South Korean embassador from Japan.

Not to mention some random lynching of Japanese tourists in South Korea. Heck, they do all this for any perceived failure for the Japanese to be sufficiently contrite over their actions in WWII.


237 posted on 12/21/2005 4:19:48 AM PST by gogogodzilla (Raaargh! Raaargh! Crush, Stomp!)
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To: gogogodzilla

Well, then please write off WHOLE EUROPE (INCL. BRITAIN). It´s usual that killers are released after serving their time in prison, which is around 15-25 years, and only very seldom really for life. You don´t have to tell me that the individual life has a lesser value in Asia than in Europe. It´s cultural.


238 posted on 12/21/2005 4:36:02 AM PST by Michael81Dus
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To: Wristpin
So life without parole means 15-18 years....Cmon!

A) In Europe there is no such thing as life without parole. B) An average inmate who has been sentenced for so-called life very often serves less than 15 years in the EU. F.ex. in Sweden the average duration of "life" is 8 years. Remember Marc Dutroux? He will be eligible for parole in less than 10 years if he behaves well.

239 posted on 12/21/2005 4:42:50 AM PST by Tarkin (Janice Rogers Brown to the SCOTUS)
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To: Numbers Guy
I don´t know how the system in the US works but germany is a democracy with a rule of law and a independent justice.

It was a normal legal decision by a german court.
Even if the german government or any politicians have a different opinion in that case it would not matter and the judges would not care.
240 posted on 12/21/2005 5:02:01 AM PST by stefan10
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