Yet more evidence of the involvement of state agents in the jihad. From DPA, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
BEIRUT - Lebanon has refused to extradite to the United States four suspected Shia Hezbollah members believed to have carried out attacks against Americans in Beirut during the 1980s, judicial sources said on Saturday.They said Lebanese authorities refused to extradite four Lebanese: Imad Moughaniyeh, Hassan Ezzeddine, Ali Atwe and Mohammed ali Hamadeh....
Three of the four wanted Lebanese - Moughaniyeh, Ezzeddine and Atwe - are accused of participation in a 1983 attack on US Marines headquarter in Beirut in which more than 100 Marines were killed.
The fourth Mohammed Hamadeh, who returned to Lebanon in December after he finished serving his jail sentence in Germany for possessing explosives, is accused by the United States of the 1985 highjacking of a TWA airliner during which a US Navy diver was killed.
Authorities have also rejected a US request to hand over Wassef Hassoun, an American of Lebanese origin who deserted the Marines in 2004 and left Iraq for Lebanon and then left the southern port city of Tripoli for the US. It was reported later that Hassoun has left the US and headed back to Lebanon.
They will probably show up working for Dubai International of the UAE in America's ports.
Lebanon should be held accountable for its actions and have to pay the price.
I have been wondering about Wassef Hassoun. He is an American citizen who needs to be tried, in exemplary fashion, for desertion and possibly treason. The government of Lebanon needs more than a rebuke. It needs to have pain inflicted upon it, so that it begins to understand its responsibilities. What kind of pain does the American government think would be suitable, and would do the trick?
Everyone will be watching, especially in the American military, and by the families not only of the regular but of the civilian army, the Reservists and National Guardsmen. They will wnat to see what efforts are made by their government to force the handover of an American soldier who, as far as they are concerned, is an example of the mortal threat that many Muslims may pose, and they will want the charges to be pressed, and the military to hand out the sentence that Hassoun deserves.
And they will not let this go. And indignation, accompanied by private boycotts of Lebanese goods, may begin. And the American government will be judged by whether or not it is capable of exerting the pressure necessary to achieve this goal.
How will we know when the American government has exercised the pressure necessary on Lebanon? When all four men, and especially Wassef Hassoun, are handed over. And not before. No, before that the American government will have demonstrated its inability even to get an American citizen, wanted on the most serious charges, handed over.
We will all draw conclusions. About the government of Lebanon. About the government of the United States.
I have been wondering about Wassef Hassoun. He is an American citizen who needs to be tried, in exemplary fashion, for desertion and possibly treason. The government of Lebanon needs more than a rebuke. It needs to have pain inflicted upon it, so that it begins to understand its responsibilities. What kind of pain does the American government think would be suitable, and would do the trick?
Everyone will be watching, especially in the American military, and by the families not only of the regular but of the civilian army, the Reservists and National Guardsmen. They will wnat to see what efforts are made by their government to force the handover of an American soldier who, as far as they are concerned, is an example of the mortal threat that many Muslims may pose, and they will want the charges to be pressed, and the military to hand out the sentence that Hassoun deserves.
And they will not let this go. And indignation, accompanied by private boycotts of Lebanese goods, may begin. And the American government will be judged by whether or not it is capable of exerting the pressure necessary to achieve this goal.
How will we know when the American government has exercised the pressure necessary on Lebanon? When all four men, and especially Wassef Hassoun, are handed over. And not before. No, before that the American government will have demonstrated its inability even to get an American citizen, wanted on the most serious charges, handed over.
We will all draw conclusions. About the government of Lebanon. About the government of the United States.
If the US ever does start getting any of these creeps extridited, I pray to G-d the cases against them will be airtight and not like ahat miserable fiasco like sammi al-arian. I don't want another embarrassment like that one.
Surely we can get some good convictions before long. I'm tired of waiting, tired of the promises and frustated with the let-downs. Spit!!