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1 posted on 03/17/2008 5:06:12 PM PDT by forkinsocket
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exchanged his life of luxury for paradise.

Lapses of logic. So muslim "paradise" is the antithesis to "luxury". Sound good then.

2 posted on 03/17/2008 5:11:52 PM PDT by SolidWood (All conservative effort into retaking Congress!)
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British Spy Volunteered to Blow Up Hitler In Suicide Mission - Chapman was serving a sentence for burglary in a prison on the island of Jersey when the Nazis invaded in June 1940. He was recruited by German military intelligence, the Abwehr, and parachuted into the UK in December 1941 -- where he defected to the British intelligence agency MI5.

He told MI5 he wanted to return to Germany to work as a double agent and assassinate Hitler with a bomb at a Nazi rally.

According to the newly-declassified MI5 file quoted by The Times, Chapman's case officer Ronnie Reed warned him the attempt would be suicidal. "Whether or not you succeeded, you would be liquidated immediately," the file reports Reed as saying.

"Ah, but what a way out," Chapman is said to have replied.

Chapman said that his German spymaster was planning to take him to a Nazi rally once he had completed his British mission successfully. He would be placed in the "first or second row" near Hitler's podium, possibly dressed as a senior German officer. "I will assassinate Hitler," Chapman told Reed. "With my knowledge of explosive and incendiary material, it should be possible."

However MI5 rejected his offer to kill the German leader, for reasons which are still unclear. Historians believe it may have been because of the former safecracker's criminal past which did not fit with MI5's upper class culture. It may also have been motivated by fears of possible reprisals, or even because Hitler was thought to be more useful alive than dead because of his erratic behavior at that point.

Chapman returned to Germany as a double agent but was warned against undertaking any "wild enterprises" by his British spymaster, Colonel Tommy Robertson. Chapman was later awarded the Iron Cross medal by the Germans in recognition of the missions they believed him to have carried out.

Some historians believe that Chapman's German spymaster, Stephan von Gröning, may have been deliberately trying to use Chapman to assassinate Hitler. Von Gröning was opposed to Hitler, as were many German Abwehr intelligence officers.

3 posted on 03/17/2008 5:22:21 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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In prounouncing his name, remember: it has two silent e’s and a silent y.


4 posted on 03/17/2008 5:25:59 PM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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Cueneyt Ciftci, 28, who was born in Bavaria to a family of Turkish immigrants

Perhaps it's time to reconsider when to call a citizen a citizen. Obviously, this loser was never a sane German citizen. He was, by his own admission, apparently always a member of the umma which shares loyalty with no other secular entity.

6 posted on 03/17/2008 5:53:57 PM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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