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French AWOL Sniper Suspect is from YUGOSLAVIA!!
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| 10/21/02
Posted on 10/21/2002 10:52:01 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker
PARIS, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- A French officer-in-training listed as AWOL by Paris figures among the list of suspects in Washington-area sniper attacks that have targeted a dozen people to date. France's RTL radio station identified the officer as a 25-year-old student from the former Yugoslavia.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: balkans; campaignfinance; france; sniper; yugoslavia
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To: Hoplite
Are you kiddin..... most of us are banging into walls and tripping down stairs from analysis paralysis and fatigue over this thing.
Great point I read: if 99% of the players in this operation couldn't hit the broad side of a barn, that's OK as long as the remaining 1% are snipers of (theoretically) this french guy's calibre.
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posted on
10/21/2002 8:34:00 PM PDT
by
txhurl
To: anymouse
Hmmmm .... Thanks for sharing your analysis!
To: joan
Here's another Yugoslav native with NAZI past. The spin goes on. No word that he is in Fact a German Nazi, one of more than 10,000 admited after WWII into the U.S. of A.
AP World Politics
Justice Department accuses Yugoslav native of hiding Nazi past
Thu Oct 10, 6:05 PM ET
By PAUL SINGER, Associated Press Writer
CLEVELAND - The Justice Department (news - web sites) asked a federal court Thursday to revoke the citizenship of a man accused of serving as an armed guard at two Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
According to the government, Jakob Miling, 78, lied about his Nazi past when he applied for U.S. citizenship. Miling, a native of Yugoslavia, became a citizen in 1972.
Miling works as a tailor at a suburban Saks Fifth Avenue department store. He has two months to respond to the government's complaint.
He could not immediately be reached to comment. A phone message was left at the address listed for Miling in the complaint. A woman answering the phone at Saks Fifth Avenue said he is on vacation and could not be reached.
The government charged that when he applied for citizenship, Miling didn't disclose his Nazi service. In visa applications about six years earlier, he claimed he had been in high school from 1941-1944 and had worked as a tailor from 1944-1950, according to an affidavit from Elizabeth White, the Justice Department's chief historian.
According to the government's complaint filed in U.S. District Court, Miling was a guard from 1942-1944 at the Gross-Rosen camp in Poland and Sachsenhausen in Germany.
The complaint calls Gross-Rosen one of the most brutal camps in the Nazi concentration camp system. It says Miling was one of the guards responsible for making sure prisoners did not escape.
At Sachsenhausen, guards were ordered to shoot any prisoner standing in a 6-foot (1.8-meter) wide "path of death" along the camp's electrified barbed-wire fence.
White said that after serving in the camps, Miling was a member of the German infantry until he surrendered to British troops in 1945.
He came to the United States as a visitor in 1964 and applied for an immigrant visa in 1966, saying he planned to work as a tailor.
"Those who swore loyalty to Adolf Hitler and assisted in the Nazi campaign of terror against civilians do not deserve the privilege of U.S. citizenship," Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff said in a statement.
The complaint against Miling is the eighth filed this year against a suspected former Nazi, said Eli Rosenbaum, director of the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations.
The office reviews World War II-era documents from archives in Europe for the names and biographical information of Nazi soldiers. Names on those lists are then compared with names on U.S. immigration documents to see if any former soldiers applied for U.S. citizenship.
Rosenbaum would not say how Miling came to the department's attention. "I can tell you that nearly all of our cases for the last 15 years or more have been the result of our own investigative work." They generally do not involve former prisoners identifying a former captor, he said.
The Justice Department has been trying for two decades to revoke the citizenship of John Demjanjuk, a suburban Cleveland autoworker who is also accused of being a Nazi guard during World War II. A judge stripped Demjanjuk of his citizenship in February, saying wartime documents prove that he worked at concentration camps. Demjanjuk has appealed that ruling.
Demjanjuk had lost his citizenship earlier and had been deported, but those decisions were overturned because of doubts about eyewitness testimony placing him at the camps.
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posted on
10/22/2002 5:59:27 PM PDT
by
DTA
To: Tropoljac; Hoplite
Haa! Hoo-haa?
Truly, just hoo-haah. 'Nuff Said.
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posted on
10/22/2002 8:37:53 PM PDT
by
wonders
To: joan
If they have all this information on him, then why don't they give the most important details of all - his name and his photo, so he could be discovered, tracked, and caught.Good point. Perhaps they wish to keep to themselves the honor of finding him.
To: Tropoljac
When the KLA had the services of some Mujahadeen, many Mujahadeen left quite early due to the disgust of the lack of Islamic fervour shown by the Albanians who are overwhelmingly secular.There was a post on a forum last year where one of these muhjahideen warriors claimed that NATO special forces captured the leader of a group of them, cut his head off and left it on a stake with a note saying something along the lines of 'Keep Out, NATO business'.
VRN
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posted on
10/24/2002 2:49:28 AM PDT
by
Voronin
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