Germany Releases Convicted Terrorist (Update)
Charles Johnson
Wed Dec 21, 2005 at 9:51 am PST • Views: 564
Debbie Schlussel has a lot of information about the Hizballah terrorist released by Germany, probably in exchange for hostage Susanne Osthoff (a convert to Islam).
Mediacrity notices that the New York Times, in their story about the release of hijacker/murderer Mohammad Ali Hamadi, doesn’t think we need to know that Hamadi was a member of Hizballah.
Here’s the story of the final hours of Petty Officer Robert Stethem.
When the plane was at the Beirut airport in Lebanon, Petty Officer Stethem was singled out because he was in the US military. After many hours of being cruelly beaten, tortured, and finally killed by the terrorists, they threw his body from the plane in a final disgraceful, cowardly act. The wounds were so terrible that his body had to be identified by its fingerprints.
Throughout the ordeal, Robert Stethem did not yield, and instead encouraged his fellow passengers to endure by his example. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star for heroism and bravery. He is buried at Arlington Cemetery.
And one of the monsters who did this is now walking free in Lebanon.
UPDATE at 12/21/05 10:18:10 am:
Well, possibly not walking free: Navy diver’s killer held in Beirut.
The Lebanese killer of a U.S. Navy diver was in custody in Beirut yesterday, according to U.S. officials who decried his release from a German prison last week and pledged to bring him to the United States for trial.
But it’s hard to know how much truth there is in this report—because Lebanon, of course, is the headquarters of Hizballah.
Frank says: