Posted by
Doctor Poddy on Thursday, July 17, 2008 8:09:39 AM
cross posted from
Bloggernews...
A cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, was hijacked by four armed thugs,
and to prove they were mean and meant their threats, they killed a
defenseless elderly man in a wheelchair, Leon Klinghoffer, dumping his
body over the side of the ship.
Yes, kidnapping and murder will get you 25 years, but Fatayer got
time off for “good behavior” and apparantly didn’t bomb anything when
he was loose on parole for three years. And the poor dear is now
probably going to be helped by “human rights” groups, because no one
wants him, and Italy says he is not allowed to stay. This makes the BBC sad:
The BBC’s David Willey, in Rome, says Ibrahim’s
predicament as a “stateless person” is similar to hundreds of
foreign-born criminals in Italy.
Abdelatif will remain perpetually subject to arrest if he remains in Italy, our correspondent adds.
Given his young age at the time of the crime, it is possible that he just might settle down.
Others convicted with him were given longer sentences.
Yet the now forgotten Achille Lauro incident has many reverberations for today’s headlines.
For example, what does one do with ex terrorists? Can they reform,
or do we jail them all for life? Since some released from Gitmo have
gone back to terrorism, including bombing civilians, this is not an
easy question.