Posted on 05/25/2010 1:57:53 PM PDT by bkopto
Oh no...tell me it ain’t so! Our people did??
I wonder if the SEIU has a contract to clean up and maintain the consulate?;)
Guess that kinda hurts the “charm offensive”. Now they are just “offensive”.
Well, it could have been worse. The attacker could have asked the victim for his papers and violated his civil rights and all. /s
I also recall this recent case of diplomatic immunity (from Qatar visiting terrorist prisoners in the US)...
New Shoebomber Claims Diplomatic Immunity
04/07/2010 7:32:24 PM PDT
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2488783/posts
Seems that those who have connections get the gig while people like John Bolton get the shaft.
Emboldened US State Department employees at work.
They despise Israel, and always have, long before Obama. It’s in the Department culture.
Oh no...tell me it ain’t so! Our people did??
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Not our people...obama’s people.
It sure sounds as if some thug working at the Consulate was responsible. The Jerusalem Post would be unlikely to go with this story unless they believed it to be true.
As for diplomatic immunity—yes, there is such a thing. It’s quite possible that he could not be tried in an Israeli court. But he could sure as hell be investigated, and publicized, and the Israeli government could sure as hell demand that he be fired, or at the very least removed from Israel.
Can anyone imagine the publicity if this happened under Bush? Is Obama going to get a free pass on EVERYTHING?
The Israelis will find a way to get even with these slime.
hard to judge this one.
one one hand: Isreal has a well armed populus and diplomatic imunity does not make you bulletproof. A random act of thuggery could easily end with the thug going home in a box.
on the other hand: drunken males do stupid things and often become agressive when they are getting no play from the ladies.
Obama people
“Our”?? I don’t claim Obama people as “ours”
Here is the story..second hand, but accurate. The guys who did the beating were employees of Triple Canopy(TC) who are under contract with State Dept to provide security services for Embassy/Consulate employees in Jerusalem when they travel to certain areas.
Two men and an office worker women were involved. One of the men fled Israel and the other two have been fired.
One of the management team was also fired, but maybe for different reasons.
Needless to say the US Embassy is up in arms with TC who also has the security contract in Bahgdad. TC is bidding on a renewal of the contract is Israel and the scuttlebutt is that they won’t get it because they are having a hard time keeping the operation in Bahgdad staffed..plus they are short people in Jerusalem.
The contractor grapevine is buzzing with this incident.
Oh piff.......Yishai whines like a little gay boy. This is something that happens in a thousand bars in a thousand cities every day. When I was in Tel Aviv a friend made the mistake of asking a Scottish guy if he was from Ireland.....guess what happened next? We didn't run to the Jerusalem Post and cry about getting a bloody nose and neither did the Scots.
LOL! Whatever, just shows what a bunch of tools now work for the State Department. Worst asswhooping I ever saw was in Egypt at a disco when two British security contractors, working for a Saudi Prince on vacation, threw down on a loudmouth American oilfield worker. He didn't get out with just a bloody nose.....
Its good to hear this wasn’t swept under the rug
They tried to sweep it, but I think the kid who got beat up was the son of a diplomat. He said something critical about americans and the beating followed. TC needs to clean out their management there.
Does TC have “close ties to the Obama Administration” by any chance?
This seems to have gotten no media attention in the US
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