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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=tanstl@aol.com href="mailto:tanstl@aol.com">David Sladky</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=undisclosed-recipients:
href="mailto:undisclosed-recipients:">undisclosed-recipients:</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, June 05, 2010 12:19 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Israeli Commando Who Killed Six Aid Workers to Receive
Medal</DIV></DIV>
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<H3><A
href="http://news.antiwar.com/2010/06/04/israeli-commando-considered-for-medal-of-valor-for-role-in-massacre/">Israeli
Commando Who Killed Six Aid Workers to Receive Medal</A></H3>
<H4><A name=pagesub></A>Staff Sergeant Brags of Role in Massacre </H4>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in">by Jason Ditz, June 04, 2010 </DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in"><A
href="http://news.antiwar.com/2010/06/04/israeli-commando-considered-for-medal-of-valor-for-role-in-massacre/">http://news.antiwar.com/2010/06/04/israeli-commando-considered-for-medal-of-valor-for-role-in-massacre/</A></DIV></DIV>
<DIV>Autopsies are coming out today revealing some details about the
circumstances of the Israeli attack which left at least nine aid workers dead.
Doctors say that <A
href="http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/06/04/gaza.raid.autopsies/index.html?hpt=T2">several
of the victims were shot in the head and that in at least one case the gun was
just inches from the aid worker’s head when fired</A>.</DIV>
<DIV><IMG height=220 hspace=10
src="http://webmail.aol.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/valor.jpg" width=112
align=right vspace=10 border=0 name=graphics1>But additional information is also
coming in in the form of a report from an unnamed <A
href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/i-killed-six-of-the-terror-nine-commando-tells-newspaper-1992077.html">Israeli
staff-sergeant, who claims proudly to have single-handedly killed at least six
of the civilian aid workers</A>.</DIV>
<DIV>The staff-sergeant says he has no doubt everyone on board was a “terrorist”
and claimed there were secretly dozens of “hardcore mercenaries” on board.</DIV>
<DIV>The staff-sergeant’s story is being well received in Israel, where the
killings have been lionized by a sympathetic media and by government officials
eager to cash in on the latest jingoist craze. <A
href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7144099.ece">He
is now being praised for “stabilizing the situation” and is being considered for
a medal of valor for his killings</A>.</DIV>
<DIV>The Israeli military insists that, far from the straightforward massacre of
civilians that it appears to be, they are the victims of a massive conspiracy to
frame them, and that 50 “well trained” Turks with communication devices, who
they said were likely ex-military, were on board shooting and throwing grenades
at them. <A href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=177445">The fact
that no grenades or guns or communication devices or, indeed, “terrorists” were
found on board is being claimed as another coverup, that after the massacre the
“terrorists” somehow had the presence of mind to throw all the evidence
overboard</A>. Exactly how they all disappeared themselves in unclear, but not a
single captive was charged with any crime.</DIV>
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