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France pursues 1980s terrorist now "respected" professor
The Globe and Mail ^ | Nov. 14, 2008 | Josh Wingrove

Posted on 11/14/2008 12:34:27 AM PST by idov

Until last year, Hassan Diab was leading the quiet life of a Canadian sociology professor.

Prof. Diab was teaching at both Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, was said to be a popular colleague and teacher. After leaving the violence of his native Lebanon and earning his doctorate in the United States, Prof. Diab, 54, received his Canadian citizenship and appeared to settle into Ottawa.

There, friends said he was a secular man with an interest in sociology and Middle East studies, and was not without a warm side.

"He has a great rapport with students," said Carleton professor Nahla Abdo, a friend of Prof. Diab's. "He's intelligent, he's smart, he's witty. ... I really think highly of his academic skills."

But just before noon yesterday, the RCMP showed up at a home in Gatineau, Que., and arrested Prof. Diab on behalf of French authorities, who allege he was an integral part of the bombing of a Paris synagogue 28 years ago.

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TOPICS: Canada; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; carletonuniversity; diab; educatedrot; france; gatineau; hassandiab; lebanon; liberals; lowereduction; middleeast; middleeaststudies; ottawa; paris; professor; quebec; synagogue; synagoguebombing; terrorist; universityofottawa
Whether they got the right guy in this case, give France credit. Their leaders don't pal around with terrorists, they try to bring them to justice.
1 posted on 11/14/2008 12:34:27 AM PST by idov
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To: fanfan

ping


2 posted on 11/14/2008 12:47:38 AM PST by Cindy
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To: idov

/mark


3 posted on 11/14/2008 12:59:02 AM PST by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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To: idov

The French are going after one of their “Bill Ayers”. Good to know the farking French are manning up better than the US....


4 posted on 11/14/2008 1:09:34 AM PST by freebilly
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The French are going after one of their “Bill Ayers”....

Now, why would they do that?

5 posted on 11/14/2008 1:28:53 AM PST by LjubivojeRadosavljevic
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To: idov
Whether they got the right guy in this case, give France credit. Their leaders don't pal around with terrorists, they try to bring them to justice.

Actually they have been a safe haven for left wing terrorists as long as they do their dirty outside of france.

6 posted on 11/14/2008 1:55:49 AM PST by bad company (How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization)
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To: Cindy; GMMAC; Clive; exg; kanawa; backhoe; -YYZ-; Former Proud Canadian; Squawk 8888; ...
Thanks for the ping, Cindy.


7 posted on 11/14/2008 4:22:37 AM PST by fanfan
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To: fanfan

You’re welcome fanfan.


8 posted on 11/14/2008 4:26:41 AM PST by Cindy
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To: idov

If Bin Laddin isn’t dead, maybe Obama can pardon him and write a letter of recomendation to Harvard or Yale for him?


9 posted on 11/14/2008 5:46:14 AM PST by FreeAtlanta (Join the Constitution Party)
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To: bad company; idov

Not so at all.

The French coined the term “Londonistan” in the ‘90’s because they were furious at the asylum the UK was giving to Islamists.

The French are the toughest in Western Europe on the Islamic terrorists. They don’t let them in and they deport the dangerous. The internal mess of their rioting Muslims does not pose the danger of terrorism and is a different matter.


10 posted on 11/17/2008 11:59:09 AM PST by dervish (in God I trust)
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To: idov

He should have applied to University of Illinois at Chicago. Ayers could have gotten him tenured and probably a place in Obama’s cabinet.


11 posted on 11/17/2008 12:01:41 PM PST by aWolverine
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