Posted on 10/02/2001 9:46:59 AM PDT by sanchmo
What happened to him? I loved reading this post! Reminds me of a book I read about some Jews in Europe after WWII that tracked down a BUNCH of nazis and dispatched them, sometimes right on their own front stoop!
They even went so far as to infiltrate the bakers who supplied bread to a particular POW camp, and went to great lengths to insure that they killed ONLY nazis. They poisoned several hundred of them, without killing any innocent people. Wish I remembered the name of the book!
We could learn a lot from Israel, and 9/11 will hopefully demonstrate that we are facing the same scum they've been fighting since WWII. It's our war too, let's roll!
The only other thing I could find online was from Biography.com, about Ehud Barak. Even though I don't agree with his political views of the 1990's, he was one hell of a good commado. From Ehud Barak on Biography.com:
There were several outstanding incidents that built Barak’s formidable reputation. In 1972, Palestinian terrorists hijacked a Sabena airplane at an airport outside Tel Aviv and threatened to blow it up. Barak led a team that stormed the jet, killing two of the hijackers, taking the others captive, and saving all but one of the 99 passengers. His future political rival, Benjamin Netanyahu, served under his command during this mission.
A year later, Barak led one of five teams formed in order to hunt down those involved with an attack by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) that killed 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany. Barak and another man reportedly dressed as women in order to pose as couples along with two other military colleagues and enter Beirut, Lebanon, where PLO headquarters were located. Barak and his fellow commandos killed three PLO leaders and blew up a building where other Palestinian fighters were housed.
Finally, in 1976, Barak served as the mastermind behind the legendary commando raid that rescued more than 100 Israeli airline passengers held hostage by hijackers at Entebbe, Uganda.
Regardless of his record in the 90s, he had an awesome streak in the 70s !!
According to George Jonas in Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team, eight of the 11 men targeted for death were killed. Of the remaining three, one died of natural causes and the other two were assassinated, but it is not known for sure if they were killed by Israeli agents. Meanwhile, the mastermind of the massacre remains at large. In fact, in 1999, Abu Daoud admitted his role in his autobiography, Memoirs of a Palestinian Terrorist. He claims his commandos never intended to harm the athletes and blamed their deaths on the German police and the stubbornness of then-Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (JTA, May 4, 1999).
The definite books to get with more details are:
George Jonas - Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team
Simon Reeve - One Day in September
I'm glad Turkey is with us on this. I hope we will be helping you eliminate the PKK. They were backed by Clinton, the stupidist and worst president we've ever had.
As for the 50,000 people you claim the Mossad has killed - Name them!
BTW - What's Turkey's beef with Israel? Why doesn't Turkey take in some of the displaced palistinians?
If we do not take this route the corpses that result will make what we have to deal with at present seem minor.
Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
You speak the truth about the events and the support by Turks for Americans.
Friends of my father, had the opportunity to support Turks. But I have not.
Still, I have not forgotten the difficulties which Turks face, balancing east and west.
You are in, in my humble opinion, a very tough spot.
When you discuss who is a Muslim, and what is Islam, you will find that you need to be very forthcoming. Write not only of what the Koran and related writings say about peace, but also of what is in such works, about slaughter.
You are not going to be able to "safely" make your peace, here at Free Republic, without addressing what is wrong --- which has been the fodder for terrorists in the Middle-East --- about Islam.
You are a follower of what is good in it; I'll take you at your word. But you cannot avoid in discussion, what is potentially very deadly about it, if you intend to help us understand.
A friend of mine, a neighbor, is from Turkey. She's a pretty slick babe, in my book. She's different than American women, in some respects. But also, she's so American in others, I tease her about, how she could easily convince many Americans that she might actually been born in the U.S.A.
She does not seem to know much of the military relationship between Turkey and the U.S., as you have written about, above. In addition, I find that she is often amazed at little discoveries she makes, about life in the heartland of the U.S. That seems odd to me, because in most respects, she "fits right in." It is difficult for me to see how "foreign" some things are here, when in contrast, she talks as though she grew up right down the street.
But back to you, your religion, and Turkey ...
Long ago, in high school, I made a study of Turkey and found in my limited search, that the country is uniquely independent.
I think it too bad, tragic, that other states east and south of Turkey, are not so uniquely independent.
There are features of the other states' cultures, which I suspect are really at the heart of making Islam a terrorist weapon.
I've found that people --- for the most part --- from Turkey, will use their heads. Whereas people from the other states, are easily made subjects, subserviant, to the will of either a state and / or Islamic "leader."
Sometimes we hear that once upon a time, the Muslims of the MIddle-East were advance beyond the west's state of affairs.
But in fact, much of that "advancement," was the work of Turks, who, again in my humble opinion, have been independent thinkers.
Which independence has permitted the study of life beyond the covers of the Koran.
Meaning, that I have found that in the other states of the Middle-East, a good education is really at odds with the "keep - your - head - in - the - Koran - 'guidance'" of such states' "leaders."
To wit: The Koran and such, should not be used as a lever of power over people. Which, if it is used so, is where "Islam" [instead of Islam] does the real damage.
Take care.
He was referring to fascists.
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