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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

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To: jimbo123

Oh yeah? So why was Susanne Osthoff released on SUNDAY and we write TUESDAY today? And why was Hammadi set free after 16 years in prison, a regular time for murder in Germany??


41 posted on 12/20/2005 7:38:28 AM PST by Michael81Dus
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To: minus_273

Victoria Tensing wrote this piece about the failure to get Hamadi extradited from Germany and the role of hostages in that failure:

http://www.digenovatoensing.com/inthenews/Germany_Needs_Fortitude.htm


42 posted on 12/20/2005 7:38:45 AM PST by Numbers Guy
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To: Michael81Dus
Killers are usually released after 15-18 years imprisonment

Oh, good. At least they get the chance to get revenge on the people who put them in prison. Commit a murder at 20, out by 38, wipe out everyone who's annoyed you over the years, out again by 56 to enjoy your retirement years. Lovely.

43 posted on 12/20/2005 7:39:05 AM PST by AmishDude
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To: Zack Nguyen
Who knows?

Hopefully, the Mossad or CIA! :-)

44 posted on 12/20/2005 7:39:05 AM PST by Michael81Dus
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To: Former MSM Viewer

Friday November 23, 2001

Ship May Be Deployed to Persian Gulf

SAN DIEGO (AP) - A guided-missile destroyer named for a naval petty officer killed in a 1985 terrorist hijacking may soon assist in the war on terrorism.

The new commanding officer of the USS Stethem said Wednesday the ship may soon depart for the Persian Gulf.

The ship was named after Petty Officer Robert Dean Stethem, who was killed as he was planning to return home from Greece aboard TWA Flight 847. The flight was hijacked to Beirut, Lebanon, and Stethem was shot in the head, his body dumped on the tarmac.


45 posted on 12/20/2005 7:39:34 AM PST by Former MSM Viewer ("Some of our successes will be known only to a few." W 2001)
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To: Numbers Guy

But you know that Hammadi was in prison since 1989??


46 posted on 12/20/2005 7:39:43 AM PST by Michael81Dus
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To: minus_273

As Israel does go after and kill him and others associated with him.


47 posted on 12/20/2005 7:39:56 AM PST by boomop1
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To: SR 50

Why not?


48 posted on 12/20/2005 7:39:57 AM PST by Michael81Dus
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To: Former MSM Viewer

How soon before this piece of excrement is plotting to kill Americans yet again? Heaven forbid we do any "spying" to try to prevent this though!


49 posted on 12/20/2005 7:40:04 AM PST by TNCMAXQ
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To: Michael81Dus

So life without parole means 15-18 years....Cmon!


By the way...Thanks for hosting the Hamburg Al Queda cell.


50 posted on 12/20/2005 7:40:54 AM PST by Wristpin ("The Yankees have decided to buy every player in Baseball....")
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To: minus_273
I remember that murder so well. It was heinous and brutal. We need to send our spooks in to get this animal.
51 posted on 12/20/2005 7:42:13 AM PST by ElkGroveDan (California bashers will be called out)
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To: AmishDude

Something like that. ;-) Seriously, after repeated murder it is possible to get life imprisonment for life ("Now we really really mean it!").


52 posted on 12/20/2005 7:42:26 AM PST by Michael81Dus
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To: Wristpin

The germans have decided that their revenge for losing WWII is to breed islamic terrorists and send them abroad to kill Americans. Nazism by proxy.


53 posted on 12/20/2005 7:43:00 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: Wristpin

Effing Germans...cowards...


54 posted on 12/20/2005 7:43:25 AM PST by Former MSM Viewer ("Some of our successes will be known only to a few." W 2001)
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To: Numbers Guy
Great stuff, with a very telling summary:

By caving in to the terrorists' demands in 1987, the Germans merely delayed making the tough call. We can only wish them well. Now they must display a strong national will and refuse to reduce Hamadi's sentence when the inevitable new demand from the terrorists arrives.

55 posted on 12/20/2005 7:44:13 AM PST by Coop (FR = a lotta talk, but little action)
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To: Michael81Dus

I'm not accusing them of collusion... but they just let a terrorist back into the general world population.. known terrorist = valid target... time for a surgical strike.


56 posted on 12/20/2005 7:45:16 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Wristpin

Well, we told your CIA that there are a few nice guys in Hamburg - they didn´t care. Hamburg, Paris, London, where´s the difference? Islamists as sleepers could have lived everywhere.

Oh, and yeah, life imprisonment means 15-18 years in Germany. For repeated murder, child abuse or armed robbery, the punishment can be life imprisonment for life (really really really).


57 posted on 12/20/2005 7:45:55 AM PST by Michael81Dus
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To: minus_273
The German government denied on Tuesday the release was related to the freeing of a German hostage in Iraq.

B. S.

58 posted on 12/20/2005 7:48:32 AM PST by BlessedBeGod (Benedict XVI = Terminator IV)
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To: Michael81Dus

The guy wasn't simply a common murderer. He was a terrorist, kidnapper, and torturer.

I sometimes wonder if making that wall come down was a mistake. Were you on east or west side?


59 posted on 12/20/2005 7:49:46 AM PST by Wristpin ("The Yankees have decided to buy every player in Baseball....")
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