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Posted on 12/04/2001 6:01:48 AM PST by billbears

CHESS master-turned-madman Bobby Fischer has come out of seclusion to praise the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and rally for the destruction of America. Fischer, the troubled prodigy who retired and went into hiding after winning the 1972 world chess championship against Russian Boris Spassky, called a Philippine radio show just hours after 4,000 Americans died, saying, "I want to see the U.S. wiped out!"

In the last few years, Fischer has become buddies with station Bombo Radyo's shock-jock Pablo Mercado, to whom he ranted that the World Trade Center collapse was, "wonderful news," reports Yahoo! Internet Life magazine.

"The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians for years," Fischer babbled. "Nobody gave a bleep. Now it is coming back to the U.S. Bleep the U.S.!"

The federal government indicted Fischer in 1992, when he spat on U.S. sanctions against Yugoslavia to play a $3.5 million rematch with Spassky there, which he won. Rather than face 10 years in prison, $250,000 in fines and the confiscation of his booty, Fischer fled to Argentina and then to Hungary.

"He visits various parts of the world wearing disguises," Post chess columnist Andy Soltis tells PAGE SIX. "He thinks people are trying to kill him. He thinks the CIA wants to kill him. He's a real nut."

Despite being half-Jewish, Fischer saved his most vile vitriol for members of that faith. "What I'm really hoping for is some kind of 'Seven Days in May' scenario, where the country will be taken over by the military and they'll close down all the synagogues," he said on the Philippine station.

"Arrest all the Jews, execute hundreds of thousands of Jewish ringleaders and, you know, apologize to the Arabs."

Arrogance and paranoia are apparently at the heart of Fischer's psychotic rambling:

"Nobody has single-handedly done more for the U.S. image than me," he boasted. "I really believe this. When I won the world championship in 1972, the United States was, you know, it was a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

"I turned all that around single-handedly, right? But I was useful then because it was the Cold War, right? But now . . . they want to wipe me out, steal everything I have, put me in prison."

After losing his title to Fischer, Spassky eerily predicted, "Now he feels like a god. He thinks all his problems are over - he will have many friends, people will love him, history will obey him. But it is not so . . . I am afraid what will happen to him now."

"Arrest all the Jews, execute hundreds of thousands of Jewish ringleaders and, you know, apologize to the Arabs."

This is pretty sad, because what the Nazi’s did to fix it...

Israel stands as a Island of Democracy in a sea of Dictators.

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