Posted: 12/20/2005 7:05:13 AM EDT
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I hope this isn't a dupe, I did a search to no avail so I'll post it anyway. This really pisses me off. Germany paroles terrorist after 19-year term Hamadi was jailed for hijacking TWA jet, killing a U.S. Navy diver BERLIN - German authorities have paroled convicted terrorist Mohammed Ali Hamadi after he served 19 years of a life sentence for the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner and the killing of a U.S. Navy diver, a law enforcement official said Tuesday. Hamadi has been released from prison and has left Germany, said Doris Moeller-Scheu, a spokeswoman for the Frankfurt prosecutor's office. She said she did not know his destination. She said Hamadi's case came up for a regular legally mandated review by a parole court and he was released from a prison in Schwalmstadt in southwestern Germany after an expert assessment and a hearing. TWA flight 847 from Athens to Rome was hijacked on June 14, 1985, to Beirut, where the hijackers shot U.S. Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem, 23, of Waldorf, Maryland, and dumped his body on the tarmac. Witnesses later identified Hamadi as having beaten the tied-up Stethem and the plane's flight engineer later testified at the 1989 trial that Hamadi bragged he had killed the diver. Stethem's parents later sued Iran in U.S. federal courts, saying that Iran had given support to the hijackers, believed to be from the Hezbollah group. No current U.S. extradition request German federal officials declined to comment extensively and said the case was a matter for state authorities. Justice Ministry spokeswoman Eva Schmierer said Germany did not have any request from the United States for Hamadi's extradition. A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Martin Jaeger, said there was no connection between his release and that of Susanne Osthoff, a German woman released at the weekend after spending more than three weeks as a hostage in Iraq. Stethem, 23, was severely beaten during the hijacking and shot on June 15, while the plane was in Beirut. He was the only fatality during the ordeal, in which 39 Americans were held hostage for 17 days. He received the Bronze Star and Purple Heart decorations posthumously, and a U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer is named in his honor. Hamadi was arrested at the Frankfurt airport on Jan. 13, 1987, when customs officials discovered liquid explosives in his luggage. U.S. authorities had requested his extradition so he could stand trial in the United States, but the Germans, who have no death penalty, insisted on prosecuting Hamadi. © 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. |
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I doubt very seriously that scumbag has been "rehabilitated" or feels sorry in any way about what he did. I'm sure he has been sitting in prison this entire time plotting about what he's going to do next. I remember quite well when the hijacking was going on. They beat that poor guy so bad his mother wouldn't have recognized him. He may have gotten out of prison, but hell is still waiting for him. |
As long as it spites us, or better yet results in more American dead, yes. They do indeed delight in it. |
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Holy shit! The guy hijacks a plane, murders a member of the US Military, holds hostages for 17 days, then is caught sneaking liquid explosives into a German airport (no doubt to blow up a PLANE load of people or hijack another airplane) and they let the fucking guy go after 20 years? Wow... just wow. |
I doubt he's going to be doing any terrorism, the world's so different today. But if the Germans were going to refuse to extradite a killer because of the death penalty, they should have at least had the decency and justice for the victim to incarcerate the killer for life. I wonder if this is simply a coincidence with the Tookie business, or if this is a really pissy message. |
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Bingo. And they will lie about it because that is what is considered the smart thing to do among most of the educated set in postwar Western Europe. Pay off people and lie. This is one of those "cultural differences" that makes multiculturalism such a crock, and look here -- both parties are nominally white and Christian so you can focus on the differences without distraction! We are obsessed with freedom and justice, they are obsessed with tax evasion and anal sex. |
Ohhhhhh, I guess I was being a little solipsistic thinking it was over Tookie and the death penalty. They 're appeasing terrorists again. I wonder what other parts of German history we're going to relive? |
WTF??? |
In most states with the death penalty the fact he had premeditated the murder and hijacked an airplane would have landed him on death row. In Texas, he would have been put in the speed line. My hope and prayer is he ends up on one of those planes supposedly chartered by the USN to some hell hole in Africa. |
What I mean is, when was the last time you heard of Hezbollah hijacking planes and carrying out terrorism outside of Lebanon? That's what I mean. Their civil war is over, Israel is out, and now Hezbollah has some sort of quasi-state in southern Lebanon. The PLO's gone, they've gone "legit" and get international recognition since Oslo. Even Syria's gone, they pulled out of Lebanon. The situation's almost unrecognizable from 1985-6. How would this dude fit into it? |