You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Europe
Germany Releases U.S. Patriot's Hezbollah Murderer
2005-12-20
In June, we wrote about the 20th anniversary of hijacking of TWA flight 847 and murder of Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem by Hezbollah terrorists.

Stethem was a true American hero. Only 23 years old, he was tortured, beaten, and trampled to death by the Hezbollah terrorists for the crimes of being an American, a U.S. serviceman, and refusing--to his last breath--to denounce America.

We're sad to report that yet another prediction of ours has now come true. We predicted in June that Mohammad Ali Hamadi, one of the Hezbollah terrorists who murdered Stethem, would be released by the German government.

On Friday, the Stethem Family informed us that our worst fears have been realized and that Hamadi will not face justice for his brutal act of terrorism. Germany secretly released Hamadi to freedom in Lebanon.

The German government captured Hamadi in 1987. (Stethem's other three murderers--Imad Fayez Mugniyeh, Hasan Izz-Al-Din, Ali Atwa--remain free, and are believed to be in Lebanon, Iran, or Syria.) Hamadi was carrying explosives that were the same kind use in previous terrorist attacks. Unfortunately, Hamadi--who remains under indictment in the U.S.--was tried by the German government, not our. He was given life in prison without the possibility of parole. But there was always an understanding that Hamadi would be extradited to the U.S. to face justice, if the Germans ever released him.
Rest at link.
Posted by:ed

#13  #12 Remember the Isralei Mosaad made sure the Munich butchers were all at "room temperature" within a couple of years...

You can add Vermont cannoneer and one time only Iraqi arms dealer Gerald Bull to the 22 cal check-out list as well.
Posted by: Besoeker   2005-12-20 19:53  

#12  Remember the Isralei Mosaad made sure the Munich butchers were all at "room temperature" within a couple of years...

For a review of that "program", check out:

http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/calahan.htm

Posted by: Lone Ranger   2005-12-20 19:47  

#11  Pfft - thop

That's the sound of a subsonic .22 caliber round entering Hamadi's skullbox about three months from now courtesy a former SEAL now employed by a vaguely named company based at a P.O. box in northern Virginia.
Posted by: Parabellum   2005-12-20 18:57  

#10  Geee B-a-r, I like your style, but I understand paint scrapers necessary for anisceptic cleanup might be hard to find in the area where the scum would be converted to powder... {Snicker}
Posted by: BigEd   2005-12-20 12:07  

#9  ..get one of our folks to find him and make sure his "last" meal is laden with some sort of "interesting" chemical...

While that would certainly work, something large in scope, sudden and violent would probably have a more immediate impact. Remember, those ME types typically understand only naked, brute force, and what better example of that than a gargantuan explosion that ends up blowing a known terrorist into a million pieces?
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-12-20 11:25  

#8   If the guy can be located, it shouldn't be to difficult to find a local that can rig up a car bomb...

Nuts to that - get one of our folks to find him and make sure his "last" meal is laden with some sort of "interesting" chemical...

Remember the Isralei Mosaad made sure the Munich butchers were all at "room temperature" within a couple of years...
Posted by: BigEd   2005-12-20 11:17  

#7  He spent more time in prison per murder than the 9/11 conspirator arrested by Germany did.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2005-12-20 10:38  

#6  Fricken Deutschland!

Life in Prison in Deutschland = 19 Years If You Murder An American
Posted by: The Happy Fliegerabwehrkanonen   2005-12-20 10:21  

#5  Damn .com, you said what I was gonna say!!!!!!
Posted by: ARMYGUY   2005-12-20 10:18  

#4  ADDITIONAL: Mohammed Ali Hamadi was released and returned to Beirut a few days ago, said a Hezbollah official in Beirut. A Lebanese security official also confirmed Hamadi had arrived four days ago aboard a commercial flight from Germany, but would not elaborate. It was not immediately known where Hamadi went after his entry to Lebanon. A German law enforcement official said Hamadi was released from prison and left Germany. Hamadi was arrested at the Frankfurt airport on January 13, 1987 for involvement in the hijacking, after customs officials discovered liquid explosives in his luggage.

At the time, the US authorities requested Hamadi’s extradition so he could stand trial in the United States, but the Germans, who have no death penalty, insisted on prosecuting Hamadi.
Today, German Justice Ministry spokeswoman Eva Schmierer said Germany had not received any request from the United States for Hamadi’s extradition.

A spokeswoman for the Frankfurt prosecutor’s office, Doris Moeller-Scheu, said Hamadi’s case came up for regular review by a parole court and he was released after an expert assessment and a hearing. A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Martin Jaeger, said there was no connection between his release and that of Susanne Osthoff, a German woman who was released on the weekend after spending more than three weeks as a hostage in Iraq.


Yeah, right.
Posted by: Steve   2005-12-20 10:09  

#3  Words fail. Other than FUCK GERMANY, of course.
Posted by: .com   2005-12-20 09:20  

#2  One more thing - the feds need to keep a list of actions of this nature by our so-called "allies". For future reference, of course.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-12-20 09:17  

#1  If the guy can be located, it shouldn't be to difficult to find a local that can rig up a car bomb...
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-12-20 09:11  

00:00