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American, 19, Among Gaza Flotilla Dead (American in name only)
ABCNews.com ^ | ZOE MAGEE

Posted on 06/03/2010 7:44:09 AM PDT by OldDeckHand

A U.S. citizen who lived in Turkey is among the nine people killed when Israeli commandos stormed a Turkish aid ship heading for the Gaza Strip, officials said today. The victim was identified as Furkan Dogan, 19, a Turkish-American. A forensic report said he was shot at close range, with four bullets in his head and one in his chest, according to the Anatolian news agency.

Dogan was a high school student studying social sciences in the town of Kayseri in central Turkey. He was born in the United States and moved to Turkey at the age of 2. He will be buried in his hometown tomorrow.

The body was returned to Turkey today along with eight others, all Turkish nationals, who were on board the Mavi Maramara.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 4jihad; domesticterrorist; dualcitizenship; flotilla; furkandogan; hamas; israel; raid; turkey
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To: OldDeckHand

Just as the children of illegals should not be citizens, the children of people who are here on temporary visas should not be citizens as well. They should be treated like the children of foreign envoys.


61 posted on 06/03/2010 8:16:24 AM PDT by Defiant (Obama hawking Special K-- www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rDJdHQspuI)
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To: ArrogantBustard

True enough. A tread mark is a tread mark to the squashee, I suppose.

SnakeDoc


62 posted on 06/03/2010 8:16:37 AM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("Shut it down" ... 00:00:03 ... 00:00:02 ... 00:00:01 ... 00:00:00.)
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To: buffyt

The ASSUMPTION here is that the IDF shot him, forgetting of course that the ‘peace’ activists had taken some of the Iraeli soldiers guns.

Sounds like a setup to me.

5 shots, close range?


63 posted on 06/03/2010 8:16:53 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: OldDeckHand

I don’t care what his legal nationality was.

He was as American as Rachel Corrie or. ...which of course is not American at all.


64 posted on 06/03/2010 8:17:31 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: r9etb

BS, sounds like he was in the way of an automatic weapon.


65 posted on 06/03/2010 8:18:35 AM PDT by WHBates
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To: r9etb

Four shots to the head and one to the chest sounds like automatic fire.

The other 10 or 15 bullets missed.

How big is an Uzi clip anyway?


66 posted on 06/03/2010 8:21:30 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: softwarecreator
Yeah, this reply shows the depth of your intelligence.

Wow. You really showed me, didn't you? Gosh.

Look at the big picture, sonny. This is going to be a black eye for the IDF.

67 posted on 06/03/2010 8:21:33 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb
"Let's cut to the chase: 4 shots at close range to the head and one to the chest sounds a lot more like a case of shooting the wounded, than an indication of "good shooting." "

Maybe not. We have no idea where in the head and chest this young man was shot. This easily could have been the result of a shooter firing on full-auto at close range. Barrel travel while shooting on full-auto could explain the four in the chest and the one in the head.

Also, multiple shooters engaged on a single target could also easily explain the number of wounds.

What's less likely? While engaging a hoard of angry vigilantes, the IDF takes the time to shoot wounded on the ground. It's just not very plausible, given the scenario.

68 posted on 06/03/2010 8:22:16 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: WHBates
BS, sounds like he was in the way of an automatic weapon.

Perhaps. You're trying to explain it away, clearly. But you have to look at the other possibility, too. Even if you don't want to.

69 posted on 06/03/2010 8:22:58 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: OldDeckHand
with four bullets in his head and one in his chest

Inverse "Mozambique Drill"?

70 posted on 06/03/2010 8:22:59 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: ArrogantBustard

Not to ruin the FR pancake industry, but Rachel Corrie cracked her head on top of the dozer blade.

She wasn’t squashed by anything.


71 posted on 06/03/2010 8:23:14 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: Marty62
Well his loyalty will soon lie in a grave...

I was thinking more about the fact he was on a boat with 5 bits of well placed IDF lead in him. Add a chain and it's anchors aweigh...

72 posted on 06/03/2010 8:23:25 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (Christians: Stand for Christ or stand aside...)
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To: OldDeckHand

Good thing the Israelis got him. The islamaniacs would have eventually used his citizenship to send him on a mission to the US.


73 posted on 06/03/2010 8:23:59 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: OldDeckHand
Barrel travel while shooting on full-auto could explain the four in the chest and the one in the head.

But it's less believable for what is reported here, which is four shots to the head and one to the chest.

74 posted on 06/03/2010 8:24:10 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: agere_contra

bummer ....


75 posted on 06/03/2010 8:26:06 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Lurker

Well give the kid some credit for standing still, at night, on a moving ship, while the commando was being ...um...hugged by peaceniks and..um the kid stays standing, to bravely, get shot in the head once, twice, thrice, and a forth time, and with the strength of Allah( pbuh ) takes one to the left ventricle.

What a martyr! Proof of rightness against Jew bullets.

Furkan Dogan, our new Rachel Corrie!

/sarc off


76 posted on 06/03/2010 8:26:51 AM PDT by Leisler
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To: SnakeDoctor

I’ve heard the double-tap reference from dramas about the SAS. (Not saying they originated it).

“Mouth-shot, double-tap” has the sort of unsqueamish pragmatism you want in a hostage situation.


77 posted on 06/03/2010 8:26:58 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: r9etb
sounds a lot more like a case of shooting the wounded

Again, good shooting.

78 posted on 06/03/2010 8:27:08 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: OldDeckHand
Yesterday, we learned that one of the groups that organized this flotilla of activists was headed by William Ayers, Bernadine Dorhn and the woman who founded Code Pink, so why would anyone be surprised that there were Americans involved?

I hear that there was a guy from Whidbey Island, in WA state, near me, too. That is no surprise, either, since one of the ships was named the "Rachel Corrie".

79 posted on 06/03/2010 8:27:29 AM PDT by Eva (Aand)
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To: JRios1968
Besides, this makes him an "American Turk"
80 posted on 06/03/2010 8:27:45 AM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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