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| [DW] The US wants Adem Yilmaz to face terrorism charges in New York. Instead, Germany deported him to ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... this week after he had served a prison sentence on a terrorism conviction. The United States sharply criticized Germany on Thursday for deporting a convicted terrorist to Turkey despite an extradition request for him to stand trial in a New York court. Adem Yilmaz was deported on Tuesday to his native Turkey after serving an 11-year prison sentence in Germany for planning a 2007 bomb plot to attack American citizens and facilities in Germany as part of an Islamist murderous Moslem cell.
...also known as Pashtunistan, home of ignorance, poverty, and automatic weapons... in 2006. New York prosecutors filed the indictment against Yilmaz in 2015, but it was only unsealed at around the time he was being deported from Germany to Turkey. Acting US Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said in a statement he was "gravely disappointed" Germany had decided to deport Yilmaz to Turkey instead of extraditing him to the United States. "The German government deliberately helped Yilmaz escape justice by placing him on a plane to Turkey," Whitaker said in a statement. "The German government has refused to take any responsibility for failing to extradite him to the United States, has flouted their treaty obligations and has undermined the rule of law," he said. The issue was also addressed in talks on Wednesday between US Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan and German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who was in Washington for an international meeting on the "Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... DOUBLE JEOPARDY Germany's Foreign Ministry said Yilmaz's deportation was a decision of the independent justice system and followed the rule of law, sources told AFP. A Frankfurt court spokesperson told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that extraditing Yilmaz to the United States would have been considered double jeopardy under German law. "An extradition could have only occurred if the Americans said they would restrict the charges to crimes not already punished," the spokesperson said. The United States had filed papers on Monday to address the Frankfurt court's decision, but the state of Hesse acted on the deportation order. Yilmaz was tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! by US officials said they were in contact with
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #14 send a Gülen book he supposedly left behind in his cell You are absolutely wicked, European Conservative. That’s brilliant! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-02-08 23:06 |
| #13 With all the apologies if this was done in error, of course. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2019-02-08 19:50 |
| #12 #11 - I like the way you think |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-02-08 18:33 |
| #11 Or a helpful soul could send a Gülen book he supposedly left behind in his cell to his new address. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2019-02-08 14:36 |
| #10 It does sound like our people screwed up. I suppose the next steps are to list the gentleman with Interpol and send an extradition request to Turkey. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-02-08 14:25 |
| #9 The time when German courts were following orders and not the law is not something you want to see again. The extradition request is from 2017, and the U.S. authorities were fully aware of the fact that extradition without guarantees of no double jeopardy was a no go (the other no go is the death penalty). The U.S. Department of Justice sat on its hands. This issue could have been easily resolved in time. The charges that haven't been tried yet are so serious that the result - life without parole if proven guilty - would have been guaranteed. The German court in Frankfurt had no choice. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2019-02-08 14:05 |
| #8 I see what you did there, Beso... |
| Posted by: Raj 2019-02-08 07:51 |
| #7 Blame yourself, really, not German courts which followed the law. Yes, surely then we must 'blame' ourselves. The German courts were simply following |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-02-08 06:46 |
| #6 (a) Germans are not your friends, never were, never will be. (b) This time around, they have a valid argument - fix your own judicial activism first. (c) Tell Recep, in private, you want the mook's head. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-02-08 05:41 |
| #5 And no guarantee he wouldn't have pulled an 0bumhole judge. |
| Posted by: gorb 2019-02-08 05:22 |
| #4 "Germany’s F.Y. Behavior" Well no. Germany's politicians would have gladly shipped that guy to the U.S. A Frankfurt court said no because the U.S. would not drop charges he was already convicted for. Blame yourself, really, not German courts which followed the law. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2019-02-08 02:34 |
| #3 They could have gotten him had they dropped the charges he had already been convicted of. But they didn't, because they like being assholes. It's more like a "fuck you" to Germany. Force them to violate their own laws? Who does that? Oh, right, US government officials drunk on their own power. The same way they launch coups in other nations. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2019-02-08 01:53 |
| #2 Paul hope you are right. Would rather we deported Keith Ellison to Turkey. Or the Antarctic. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2019-02-08 00:53 |
| #1 There are going to be serious repercussions from this incident. President Trump is getting tired of Germany’s F.Y. Behavior. Some ally. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2019-02-08 00:33 |