Tuesday, August 24, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Activist on 'Mavi Marmara' [Gaza Flotilla] Was Black Sea ferry hijacker - 'One of the men on the Mavi Marmara spent three years in a Turkish prison for hijacking a ferry in the Black Sea in 1996; this indicates just who the "activists" were on the boat that tried to break the Gaza blockade on May 31, Foreign Ministry officials said Monday. The Turkish newspaper Hurrieyt reported over the weekend that Erdinc Tekir, who was hurt during the IDF raid on the boat, was among the ninemember team that hijacked the Black Sea ferry to bring the 1996 war in Chechneya to the world's attention. Tekir spent some three and a half years in prison for the incident...' [Peace activists?]
