Payback ich bin a bitch.
Time to send Mitch Rapp in after him.
The timing of the German release, coinciding with the release of the German hostage in Iraq, is poor.
Had Germany been willing to release him into US custody, there are ways that they could have done that without breaking their own laws. Just let us know on which flight you put him. We'll handle the rest.
Didn't happen.
Some people say that this is just a money-like deal, that releasing this monster was the quid pro quo to get a German hostage free.
My guess: the Germans let him go when he promised to just go kill Jews. "Ach ja, ve haff ze final zolution zo unfiniched, ja. Go out zere and vin vun for ze Fuehrer."
Why is our Ambassador still in Berlin, and not back in Washington for consultations?
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Alas, I guess Merkel isn't anxious to patch up relations with the US.
Yeah, we have such a great track record going after these bastards. We caught bin laden in no time and Z too. We'll never see him again. And they all look the same there anyway.
Merkel wants to have stability in Germany so that her government can try to restore the economy. This is her way of appeasing Iran in hopes that Iran doesn't cause any trouble for Germany. She also forced Mehlis to resign from the Harriri investigation so that Germany could improve its relations with Syria.
(Same policy followed by other countries, like Saudi Arabia, France, UK - appease the Islamists in hopes they'll do their dirty work somewhere else.)
Remember the Lusitania.
If he doesn't leave certain areas we will never capture him. There are a lot of countries such as Iran, Syria, part of Lebanon where he can roam around at will with no fear at all of the U.S.
Actually, Attorney General Gonzales did so.
Germany is simply not serious about the war in Islamic terror. Presumably someone in the German government weighed the inevitable damage to German-U.S. relations and decided that whatever they were getting for it was worth the cost. We are told that wasn't freedom for the German hostage. What, then?
As to the damage in relations, so what? Germany is in no danger of American retaliation and laughs at our displeasure. We have always forgiven this sort of slap in the face and we will forgive this one as well.
If he was "only" shot it'd be less of an outrage in some ways, in fact he was beaten to death over a period of a few days despite the efforts of a Swedish stewardess to help him.
Germany, like Saudi Arabia, loves playing the double game!