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| St. Pancake Trial Continues In Israel |
| 2010-10-08 |
| The Corrie family is demanding a symbolic $1 in punitive damages from the state for wrongful killing and negligence. Ms. Corrie, along with other agitators from the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement (ISM), was trying to block two army bulldozers from demolishing Palestinian homes in Rafah when she was skwooshed on March 16, 2003. The commander of the two-man bulldozer team denied seeing Corrie, but ISM agitators said in affidavits that the bulldozer driver could see her while pushing dirt on her body. On Thursday it was the turn of Shalom Michaeli, who headed the military police investigation into Corrie's death, to testify in Haifa District Court. During most of his testimony, Mr. Michaeli was cool and self-confident. But on several occasions his voice rose and he told Corrie family attorney Hussein Abu Hussein to "stop putting words in my mouth." He said that an army manual specifying that the D-9 bulldozer should not be operated near people was not relevant in a situation of war. "There was war going on between the Israel Defense Forces and all the people in that area," said Michaeli. Corrie's long-time lefty parents have paid about $50,000 for translation alone since the case started early this year, doing their part for "the cause", by suing Israel, the United States, Caterpillar Corporation, and a bunch of others no doubt. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #1 If Israel loses...pay the buck in pennies. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-10-08 19:48 |