This is a real blood boiler from Fox News...a German hostage taken by radical Islamic terrorists (these things are quickly becoming both synonymous and redundant) gets magically released after Germany paroles a Hezbollah member who murdered a U.S. Naval officer in cold blood. Our government is making the right noises here, but all I have to say is to hell with the whole stinking sorry lot of these appeasing cowards.
If Eurabia wants to bend over and take it up the tailpipe from IslamoNazis, they can be my guest, but they should do it on their own time and their own dime. The vast majority of the entire Europe we used to know as an ally was already circling the drain of history due to a terminal case of nanny state socialism...I just think that the rise of Islamic terrorists in their midst will speed up that swirl and give them someone to surrender to. There's not a single good reason I can think of, strategic or otherwise, that the U.S. Armed Forces should remain in Germany another day...and when the barbarians are at the gate with their scimitars sharpened, they can deal with it on their own. I've said it before, but with "allies" like this, who needs enemas? May God bless and keep the family of Mr. Stethem, and may the justice meted out to his murderers be swift and merciless, in this life or the next.
"Mohammed Ali Hamadi was released despite strong U.S. objections, FOX News learned. Those objections were raised in phone calls to German authorities by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller, as well as by top-level State Department and administration counter-terrorism officials.
U.S. officials said they "can't rule out" the possibility that Germany deported Mohammed Ali Hamadi, after he had served 19 years of a life sentence, in exchange for the release of Susanne Osthoff, a German archeologist taken hostage in Iraq and freed four days after Hamadi's deportation. German authorities have denied any such deal was made.
In June 1985, Hamadi was one of four Islamic militants who commandeered TWA Flight 847 — en route from Athens to Rome — and hijacked it to Beirut. The ensuing hostage ordeal lasted 17 days, with the plane shuttling among various Mediterranean airports.
On the second day of the hijacking, Hamadi and his accomplices learned that U.S. Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem was on board. Hamadi and his co-conspirators beat Stethem unconscious, then shot him to death and dumped his body on the tarmac of the Beirut airport. The hijackers later escaped.
In 1987, Hamadi was arrested in Frankfurt, Germany, for carrying explosives in his bag at the airport. He was convicted both on that charge and of Stethem's murder and sentenced to life in prison. Late last year he was paroled by the German authorities and deported to Lebanon.
On Dec. 21, 2005, shortly after Hamadi's return to Lebanon, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters: "I think what I can assure anybody who's listening, including Mr. Hamadi, is that we will track him down, we will find him and we will bring him to justice in the United States for what he's done. "We will make every effort, working with the Lebanese authorities or whomever else, to see that he faces trial for the murder of Mr. Stethem."
At a press briefing Tuesday, State Department spokesperson Tom Casey confirmed that contact had been made with the Lebanese government regarding Hamadi, and that the case remains active. "The United States still believes that he and anyone else who is responsible for such heinous acts should face justice," Casey said. "And we do continue to wish to see him be brought to the United States to face trial here."
Now here is a politician who gets it, and hopefully more regular, ordinary folks worldwide will wake up too. Canadian leader (Conservative MP and Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister) Jason Kennedy... now if only we could get one of our own feckless, spineless "leaders" to say this about terrorists, and their supporters and enablers the world over:
"There was another political party in the past which had democratic support, which provided social services, which played an important role in the political life of its country in Germany in the 1930s which was also dedicated to violence against the Jewish people," said Kennedy.
"The world was wrong to negotiate with that party then and it would be wrong to negotiate with Hezbollah today and I'm shocked that Mr. Wrzesnewskyj (a politician who resigned in disgrace after having direct talks with Hezbollah outside his authority) doesn't understand that," he said.
"The Liberal party of Canada and other opposition parties cannot claim to be prepared to be ready to govern Canada if they cannot even establish a coherent position on such a clear-cut issue as the terrorist nature of Hezbollah, an organization motivated by anti-Semitism and dedicated to the destruction of Israel."
Kenney said the Liberal MP's logic that Hezbollah should be negotiated with in order to achieve peace in the Middle East is flawed. There is nothing to negotiate with a group motivated by hatred and dedicated to the destruction of a state," he said.