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Decades later, investigators close in on communist East German killer squads
AP ^ | 10-03-03 | TONY CZUCZKA

Posted on 10/3/2003, 7:55:42 PM by Tailgunner Joe

Edited on 4/13/2004, 9:44:14 AM by Jim Robinson. [history]

Cold War historians and spy novelists have long conjectured about hit squads working for communist East Germany. But a recent arrest is the strongest official acknowledgment yet that state-sponsored assassins were on the loose before the fall of the Berlin Wall.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: eastgermany; stasi

1 posted on 10/3/2003, 7:55:42 PM by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe
And it took all these years to prove this theory. Imagine.

And we have the press and Rats complaining because in a few months we haven't found WMD when Saddam Hussein was known to have an elaborate system to hide them.
2 posted on 10/3/2003, 7:57:30 PM by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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3 posted on 10/3/2003, 7:58:58 PM by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Probably hiding in the cellar at Katerina "Commies Ist Nut So Badd" Witt's house.
4 posted on 10/3/2003, 8:44:34 PM by cookcounty
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To: Peach
It's another quagmire.
5 posted on 10/3/2003, 9:18:31 PM by lepton
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Eventually we may find out why Bill Clinto went to Moscow in the winter for a month, as a failing, drop-out student from Oxford.
6 posted on 10/3/2003, 10:03:21 PM by MonroeDNA (Please become a monthly donor!!! Just $3 a month--you won't miss it, and will feel proud!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
and these are the people (communist party) whose american comrades just threw their support to the democratic party in this country.
7 posted on 10/3/2003, 10:06:58 PM by bravo whiskey
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