Posted on 05/29/2012 12:42:11 PM PDT by Dallas59
A Turkish judicial panel has unanimously approved demands for a sentence of combined 18,000 years behind bars for IDF ex-chief of staff and other officials responsible for the murders of activists on the Mavi Marmara cruise ship in 2010.
The Istanbul court has formally pressed charges against four senior officers of the Israeli Defense Forces who commanded the operation against the Gaza flotilla two years ago. Nine passengers of a Turkish ship were killed as they tried to bring aid to Gaza, the subject of an Israeli military blockade.
The four officers face nine consecutive life terms in prison – one for each of the casualties aboard the Mavi Marmara – for “inciting to kill monstrously, and by torturing,” reports Turkey’s state-run agency Anadolu. This makes up for a combined 18,000 years. The indictment also includes 490 victims and complainants, out of them 189 were injured during the raid.
In Israel, former military chief Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, along with the former heads of the navy, air force intelligence and military intelligence, Eliezer Marom, Amos Yadlin and Avishai Levi, are not considered criminals. Therefore it is unlikely they will be brought before Turkey's judicial system. Still, in a symbolic move the men could be convicted in absentia.
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Retaliation by promotion - I like it.
A defendant sentenced to six hundred years asked the judge, “how do you expect me to do six hundred years?”
Said the judge, “just do what you can son, just do what you can”
I’m relieved. I was expecting them to hand down 20,000 years. We might be looking at 15,000 with good behavior.
Bull. Sh*t.
Clearly each member of this “panel” has his head stuck up a nameless bodily cavity.
If the Turkish government was so fixated on the safety of this bunch, they should not have allowed the ship to leave port.
Thanks Dallas59.
Interpol was happy to help the Nazis, so why wouldn’t they help Islamists terrorize Jews?
How dare they defend themselves while being tortured, shot at and stabbed. This is monstrous.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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