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Tied up in the Rat Lines
Haaretz ^ | January 17th 2006 | Yossi Melman

Posted on 01/20/2006 7:11:47 AM PST by dj_animal_2000

It is possible that within a short time a court in the United States will prohibit the publication of the account before us. In the meantime, Haaretz has obtained the testimony given last month by William Gowen, a former intelligence officer in the United States Army, at a federal court in San Francisco. The testimony contains historical and political explosives. It links Giovanni Battista Montini, who later became Pope Paul VI, to the theft of property of Jewish, Serb, Russian, Ukrainian and Roma victims during World War II in Yugoslavia. Many studies and stories have already been written about the thundering silence of Pope Pius XII, who reigned in the Vatican during World War II. Now the former intelligence officer's testimony has revealed that after the war, Montini, who during the war served as the Vatican's deputy secretary of state under the pope, helped hide and launder property that had been stolen from, among others, Jews and was involved in the sheltering and smuggling of Croatian war criminals, such as the leader of the Ustashe movement, Ante Pavelic.

(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anticatholicicsm; antichristian; balkans; catholic; catholicism; croatia; holocaust; israel; nazis; serbia; ustasha; vatican; vaticanwwii; wwii

1 posted on 01/20/2006 7:11:49 AM PST by dj_animal_2000
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To: SJackson; kronos77

For your ping lists

Greetings, Shalom and pozdrav

DJ


2 posted on 01/20/2006 7:13:59 AM PST by dj_animal_2000
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To: dj_animal_2000
What's the point of this?
Catholic Freepers are our friends
and this is gossip . . .
3 posted on 01/20/2006 7:16:57 AM PST by theFIRMbss
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To: dj_animal_2000

Previously Posted

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1558968/posts


4 posted on 01/20/2006 7:17:22 AM PST by GeraldP (Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.)
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To: dj_animal_2000
Tied up in the [Vatican's] Rat Lines

Tied up in the [Vatican's] Rat Lines

5 posted on 01/20/2006 7:18:29 AM PST by SJackson (Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy. B. Franklin)
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To: SJackson

oops...sorry...I just got the article from my sister out of Israel...


6 posted on 01/20/2006 7:21:33 AM PST by dj_animal_2000
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To: theFIRMbss

Point of this is, that I lost 3/4 of my family in Jasenovac just because they were either Jews or Serbs...


7 posted on 01/20/2006 7:23:50 AM PST by dj_animal_2000
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To: dj_animal_2000
>Point of this is, that I lost 3/4 of my family in Jasenovac

I would be money
Catholic Freepers didn't kill
any of your kin.

8 posted on 01/20/2006 7:28:54 AM PST by theFIRMbss
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To: theFIRMbss
>I would be money/ Catholic Freepers didn't kill/ any of your kin./

I would BET money
Catholic Freepers didn't kill
any of your kin.

9 posted on 01/20/2006 7:30:26 AM PST by theFIRMbss
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To: theFIRMbss
I would be money/ Catholic Freepers didn't kill/ any of your kin./

Did I say that...????

10 posted on 01/20/2006 7:34:11 AM PST by dj_animal_2000
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To: theFIRMbss

Who said that?


11 posted on 01/20/2006 8:40:09 AM PST by montyspython (Love that chicken from Popeye's)
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To: montyspython

Noone said that Catholics killed anyone, My father and half of falily are catholic Hungarians.
It is a statement that CROATES killed Serbs and Jews and thet they passed monney to Vatican bank.
Noone here speaks against Catholics.


12 posted on 01/21/2006 3:48:14 AM PST by kronos77 (Kosovo I Metohija - "Field of Blackbirds And Land of The Monastry" full official name.)
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To: theFIRMbss

You are the only one bringing Catholic Freepers into the question.


13 posted on 01/22/2006 6:43:20 AM PST by FormerLib (Kosova: "land stolen from Serbs and given to terrorist killers in a futile attempt to appease them.")
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