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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I'll take "Good News and Bad News", for $400, Alex!
If she’s being deported does that mean she isn’t allowed to go back to Israel again? Please take her US passport so we won’t be stuck with her too? Then send her to Gaza, she would probably change her tune really fast seeing how it really is there!
I don’t see her protesting in Iran for civil rights....
Too bad, I was hoping they’d keep her.
Put a parachute on her and dump her out of the airplane at 10,000 feet over the Afghan-Pakistan border.
Teaching her how to operate the rip cord is optional.
The sentiments seem unanimous.
Isn't it a hate crime to attack the mentally deficient? Specially if they're female and ...
Just saying.
Sorry, but Mckinney’s rights have clearly been violated. And she MUST be returned to the United States regardless of her unwillingness to sign deportation papers. Personally, I believe her swim should begin tomorrow.
I really, really hope she has one of her little violent outbursts while she’s in Israeli custody. It’s our only hope of getting them to keep her.
Maybe they can just sink the ship accidentally with her on it?
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