These boys sure would like to pay him an avon knock
Posted on 12/21/2005 10:55:46 PM PST by Former Military Chick
WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales personally asked the German government not to release a terrorist accused of killing a Navy diver, but was rebuffed, the Bush administration said Wednesday.
Mohammed Ali Hamadi was freed on parole by German authorities after serving 19 years of a life sentence for the 1985 hijacking of a TWA plane during which a U.S. Navy diver, Robert Dean Stethem, 23, was killed. The 17-day ordeal riveted the United States and brought Middle East terrorism home for many Americans.
"We did, at senior levels at the U.S. government, contact the German authorities to emphasize that we thought it was important that he serve out his entire term, but we did so with a full understanding that under German law it was highly likely that he was going to be released," State Department Sean McCormack said.
A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity because discussions are ongoing, said the United States thinks Hamadi was released from temporary custody in Lebanon.
Lebanon is an emerging U.S. ally in the volatile Middle East, with a new democratically elected government and growing diplomatic and economic ties with the West.
Lebanon's Syrian-allied prime minister remains in power, however, and the country is still largely defined by sectarian politics.
The United States has no extradition treaty with Lebanon.
"We have been in contact with them on the issue," McCormack said. "And at this point I think what I can assure anybody who's listening, including Mr. Hamadi, is that we will track him down. We will find him."
Lebanese authorities questioned whether they have any grounds to hand over Hamadi.
"They (U.S. authorities) could have asked Germany to hand him over to the United States. Why are they asking us?" Prime Minister Fuad Saniora told reporters Wednesday.
The United States had sought to prosecute Hamadi when he was arrested in Germany in 1987, but the Germans would not turn him over. The United States has periodically asked that Hamadi not be released early, requests that intensified as his potential parole date approached.
Gonzales contacted his German counterpart within the last month, McCormack said.
FYi.. The Germans are also believed to have rigged the phony hijack/exchange that resulted in the three ( I think it was three) assassins from Munich being exchanged. The Lufthansa plane that was "Hijacked" by Black September, only had 10 passengers, all males, and the three prisoners were all taken to the airport and sent off within an hour of the demands being made.
The Germans are just sore because of well, just about everything - to hell with them -
I'm heading to my garage to burn the BMW and if they don't knock this off the Benz is next - We need to remember this.
BOYCOTT GERMAN PRODUCTS!!!!!!!
I agree. Perhaps a team similar to those used by Israel to clean up the trash after Munich would be in order.
Perhaps if the Islamonut AND the judge who released him were to wake up dead, the world may re-think their position on letting this type of scum loose.
Israel owes us a favor or two. Their underground operatives could take him out, no problem.
Where's a CIA hit man when you need him.
Closer than you might think?
Germany has shown once again that it is not truly our ally. Sad to say that, but I think it's true.
What we don't know wont hurt us will it...8-)
Their Quran(Charmin) states that "no angel will enter into a house in which a dog resides." That being said, as the jihadists revile both, either animal will do1 Allahu fubar!
If this keeps up, I'd like to move all the liberals and criminals to a gated community on the moon and let them live together for the remainder of eternity.
Then after the liberals are all dead, gas the moon to get rid of the refuse.
The left's love for death and lawlessness is astounding.
BUMP!
These boys sure would like to pay him an avon knock
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