With Allies Like This, Who Needs Enemies?
Germany has reportedly released Mohammed Ali Hamadi from prison. He was serving a life sentence for the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner and murder of a U.S. Navy diver and has been paroled after 19 years. How nice! I'm sure after murdering a US serviceman he has reformed. Maybe he wrote some children's books warning youngsters to stay away from terror gangs.

A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Martin Jaeger, said there was no connection between Hamadi's release and the recent freeing of former hostage Susanne Osthoff, a German woman released over the weekend after spending more than three weeks as a captive in Iraq.

It's interesting to note that he was never extradited to the United States because the US has the death penalty. This case just illustrates why we have the death penalty. At least if he was dead, he couldn't be released after nineteen years because some terrorist is holding a hostage and your government is too weak to do anything about.

Germans should be ashamed of themselves and the United States should punish the German government for this outrageous action.
- posted by Base10 @ 11:02 AM