So, they released a guilty terrorist that probably isn't even trying to pretend to be a reformed inmate? The Eurotrash are just playing out their anti-American tit-for-tat.....

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/terror/20051206-0915-rice.html

BTW, doesn't Merkel look like the Kathleen Blanco of Germany?

Wanna bet on how long it takes the Mossad to take him out?

He was safer in a German jail.

God, I hope you are right, Shelly. Of course, if that does occur, Speilberg will have to come out with a movie about how it was really Israel's fault that Hamadi turned into a hijacker and a murderer.

A murderer in Germany normally serves less than eight years. Husbands don't use lawyers to get a divorce, they use a knife. They get a eight year vacation in a country club setting and never have to pay alimony.

Jake, I would like to think that what you are saying is an exaggeration, But I am sure it is not.
And to think those eurorodents call us barbaric because we execute the guilty.
What can be more barbaric than turning loose murderers?

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I'm sure that the Germans had this all figured out. You see, the Esteemed Anti-Zionist Freedom Fighter was convicted of hijacking a *TWA* plane. Since TWA no longer exists, Germany figures that he can't do any harm in the future.

If the disco bombers are being held in Germany, then Germany should release them too. Disco is dead.

Pretty vile. Of course, this week *we* released Dr Germ and others of the same ilk in Iraq.

I wonder if there is some kind of contest going on this week between governments as to who can do the dumbest thing?

"Victoria Toensing, a former Justice Department official in the Reagan administration who oversaw efforts to extradite Hammadi in 1987, said German authorities threw obstacles in the way of U.S. prosecutors at that time and only reluctantly cooperated. "They were not open at all," she recalled. "We knew he would be released early, way back then."

Source: Washingtonpost.com

I guess to the German government, Islamic terrorism is just not that serious a crime. Hate to be cynical about it, but well... the evidence is sort of hitting us full in the face now, isn't it? And normally, I'm against the death penalty (I think I'm a rare conservative with that point of view), but it's stories like this that give me pause regarding that stance.

The world is better off with a rotten killer like that dead. Not honoring the ultimate punishment -- whether a death penalty or a real, unrevocable life-sentence -- ends up being the equivalent of condoning the crime. And what does that say about the German government?

Did the German goverment, in spite of their denial release this person in order to gain the release of civillian hostages? Well, if so, they should at least come out and say it. I'd still be disgusted in them -- what's that saying: "Once you pay the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane"? -- but at least it'd be an attempt at doing good. A misguided one sure to backfire -- it would suddenly make way too many other people targets -- but it would be far and away better than them releasing him for no good reason at all. At that point, it'd just be a completely senseless act.

It's good that Germany gave GWB and U.S. arrogance the finger. It helps to remind Americans that they usually won't get what they want.

Under Bush, we're headed toward third-world status pretty quickly. In fact, Germany is a much bigger economy than we are, and their actions will continue to get more support from the international community than ours.

The U.S. is far from being the greatest country on Earth. You're going to have to live with that: it's time to swallow a little pride!

Regarding the guy who snuffed the U.S. Navy Seal and is now laughing with friends back in Lebanon, he'll be commended at home and live a long, happy life, just like Osama is living now (remember Osama?).

Speaking of Osama, his case is a classic example how powerless the U.S. military really is. Here's a guy who, way back in 2001, destroyed the financial, trade and power center of this country, using nothing but boxcutter knives, and the entire U.S. military and all of our secret agencies and "trained experts" using $200 billion have still not found him even as we now go into 2006. Excuses excuses. The fact is that we are incompetent and unsophisticated.

Again, compared to Germany, our education system is laughable; and, proportionally, we churn out more illiterate people from high school every year than all of the other 10 largest economies combined.

Boy, do I feel safe!

On the user level government is grotesquely incompetent, but out there in the nooks and crannys of national defense, there lurk pockets of industry. I should think that we're following this fellow to find his friends. One can never have too many sources.

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"Germany is a much bigger economy than we are"

U.S. GDP $11.7 T
Germany GDP $2.3 T

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2001rank.html

Thanks David. What a ridiculous statement. The German economy is in shambles----just like the French economy. Our economy, on the other hand, is soaring. Both Germany and France demonstrate what happens when government decides it can be all things to all people. It is also a great example of how high taxation and socialism destroy economic productivity and creativity.

Our education system, by the way, is run by the Left. We are lucky it is not in worse shape.

i stopped reading after that sentence. It's like starting a comment out with: "the earth is flat." Why bother?

Wait, wait... his comment wasn't satire?

I love it when people call Germans - Krauts. They hate that. Here is a video depicting the stupidity of France's Cousins.

How ironic that Germany and France should be "friends" and "allies".

I grew up with my father saying "Put a gun in the hands of a German and he turns towards France."