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drdon326 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-04 08:02 AM
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Released Prisoner Immediately Declared Intention to 'Die For Allah'
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=57511

Though many feared that the bulk of the 400 prisoners Israel released in the prisoner exchange with the Hezbollah terror group would return to their murderous ways, few expected televised declarations of such intentions.

Steven Smyrek, a 32-year-old German terrorist who converted to Islam gave an alarming interview to a German television station almost immediately following the affixation of his signature to a document promising to renounce violence and terrorism.

Before he even left Israel for Germany, Smyrek gave an interview to Eric Friedler, a German documentary maker. “It’s an honor to die for Islam and for Allah,” he said. “When the order comes you have to carry it out and there’s no time to ask if there is a God or not, or to think what will happen after you’re dead, without feeling you simply have to lay down your life as Allah decreed.”

Smyrek was arrested by the General Security Service in 1997 after arriving in Israel in order to carry out a suicide attack on Israeli Jews. He was convicted and sentenced to ten years in jail. He expressed no remorse in court and declined an offer to serve his time in a German prison. He now speaks fluent Arabic after living with convicted Palestinian and Lebanese terrorists for more than six years and is as determined as ever to turn himself into a human bomb.

His own family in London reacted with concern to news of his release. Karin Wood, his mother, told Britain’s Sunday Times, “I’m just terrified to think what he might do, not just to himself but to other innocent people.”

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speaks for itself
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Jim Sagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-04 08:40 AM
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1. They should've immediately arrested, charged and jailed him again.
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Muddleoftheroad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-04 09:19 AM
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2. Let's give him his wish
Just don't let any innocents die as well.
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mobuto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-04 09:37 AM
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3. Exactly!
I think it was that great and noted liberal, George Patton, who said that "The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his." If the guy's willing, why not oblige him?
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