Posted on 07/02/2009 11:30:27 AM PDT by smokingfrog
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney -- who was aboard a ship the Israeli navy intercepted this week -- is in a detention center and will be returned to the United States, the U.S. Embassy said.
McKinney was among those on a ship that the Israeli Defense Forces said violated an Israeli blockade and crossed into Gazan waters on Tuesday.
The Israeli navy gained control of the ship and took McKinney and about 20 people into custody, said the Free Gaza Movement, a human rights group that sent the ship.
The group said the ship, which it calls Spirit of Humanity, was carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza.
McKinney served six terms in the House of Representatives as a Democrat from Georgia and was the Green Party's 2008 presidential nominee.
The ex-lawmaker is in the Givon immigration detention center in the central Israeli city of Ramle, the U.S. Embassy said.
She has been given deportation papers but has refused to sign them, the embassy said.
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Don’t hurry on my account....
Those Israelis sure know how to make people mad. If they cared for us THEY’D KEEP HER.
If they send her back, it should be in handcuffs. Then they could mail Obama the key. That’s twice that she’s deliberately broken Israeli law in Israeli territory.
If Bush were still President, they’d keep her for us. But, 0bama hasn’t been playing nice...
Don’t we have rules against torture?
Please don’t send this pig back!
Send this POC to Yemen.
Well, if she must be sent back, please transport her as air frieght and not as an actual passenger.
Send her to Gaza never to return or be heard from again.
Can’t they drop her on Iran???
Do we have to take her?
My thoughts exactly.
Let her walk home. Who is paying for this? Taxpayers or the Saudis.
“...is in a detention center and will be returned to the United States...”
Rats:(
Can they be paid to keep her????
“Those Israelis sure know how to make people mad. If they cared for us THEY’D KEEP HER.”
Ditto on that you good FReeper.
Could we pay them (collection starting as of now if the answer is “yes”) to keep this nut? Naw...I guess not. They wouldn’t want her either.
She hates Jews and her maiden name was Mengele. She needs to be tried as a war criminal!
Kind of like the bad penny, keeps coming back.
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