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To: Vicomte13
I don't know the particulars of the cases I mentioned but I do know that the young man who was about to be arrested for murder in the United States was hurried off to Israel and remains there under the protection of that government. It happened about 4 or 5 years ago and the crime was heinous.

The cases of the Russian/Jews are somewhat similar but the crime was bilking the government and the Russian peoples of money that should have accrued to them when the government industries were privatized after the Soviet collapse. The two men I am thinking of were part of a small group of Russians known as the "oligarchs" and remain outside of the reach of the Russians. Doesn't seem fair to me.

For that matter it does not seem fair that leaves of absence should be permitted for men or women to serve in an armed force that isn't ours especially when it presents a problem for the employer.

But I have been wrong before and God willing,will be wrong again in my life.

186 posted on 03/21/2007 3:14:16 PM PDT by saradippity
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To: saradippity
I don't know the particulars of the cases I mentioned but I do know that the young man who was about to be arrested for murder in the United States was hurried off to Israel and remains there under the protection of that government. It happened about 4 or 5 years ago and the crime was heinous.

Samuel Sheinbein. He was prosecuted in Israel, where sentencing is far more lenient, and serving 24 years. Too little time, also the longest sentence issued to a minor in Israel's history. The issue there was a combination of the death penalty and life imprisonment for a minor. Numerous nations, most of Europe and particularly Mexico, where over 350 murders reside, won't extradite to the US for capital offences. Israel did change their immigration laws after that case, and it's unlikely it would could be repeated.

219 posted on 03/22/2007 2:18:12 PM PDT by SJackson (are you aware of...any listening devices in the Oval Office of the President?, Fred Thompson)
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