Friday, May 1, 2009
I suppose he's done his time (thanks only to a muscular American foreign policy courtesy of Ronald Reagan), but is he reformed? An object lesson in the fact that your protestations to being one of the "good Jews" will not protect you when the bad men with guns come and decide, due to your last name, you and your wheel chair are worth nothing more than a bullet. (Not that Leon Klinghoffer made any such excuses, but it would not have mattered if he had.): Achille Lauro Murderer Released in Italy
Convicted terrorist Yousef Majed al-Molqui, the ringleader of the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro, has been freed from an Italian prison. Molqui served 23 years of his 30-year jail sentence for his role in the hijacking and murder of a wheelchair-bound Jewish passenger.
Italian officials announced Molqui's release on Thursday. He is currently staying in a holding center, where he is fighting an expulsion order. He has married an Italian citizen, and claims that his marriage should grant him citizenship as well. In addition, Molqui argues that he has no citizenship. As a descendant of Arabs who fled pre-state Israel, Molqui is not eligible for citizenship in Israel, nor is he eligible for citizenship in his state of birth...
Let him swim.
[h/t: Flea]
