I wish the newspaper would forget a few things (other than that which they do already):
"’85 FBI report cast doubt on Ohio suspect’s Nazi ID" April 13, 2011|By David Rising and Randy Herschaft, Associated Press
BERLIN — An FBI report kept secret for 25 years said the Soviet Union “quite likely fabricated’’ evidence central to the prosecution of John Demjanjuk, a revelation that could help the defense as closing arguments resume today in the retired Ohio auto worker’s Nazi war crimes trial in Germany.
The newly declassified FBI field office report casts doubt on the authenticity of a Nazi ID card that is the key piece of evidence in allegations that Demjanjuk served as a guard at the Sobibor death camp in occupied Poland.
Throughout three decades of hearings in the United States, an extradition, a death sentence followed by acquittal in Israel, a deportation, and now a trial in Munich, the arguments have relied heavily on the photo ID from an SS training camp that indicates that Demjanjuk was sent to Sobibor.
What more evidence of innocence do you need?
Demjanjuk’s defense lawyers have repeatedly said that the card and other evidence against Demjanjuk are Soviet forgeries. However, the FBI report provides the first known confirmation that US investigators had similar doubts.
Then why is this ailing old man being put through this?
“Justice is ill-served in the prosecution of an American citizen on evidence which is not only normally inadmissible in a court of law, but based on evidence and allegations quite likely fabricated by the KGB,’’ the FBI’s Cleveland field office said in the 1985 report, four years after US investigators were shown the card.
It was the height of the Cold War, and the ID card from the Nazi’s Trawniki training camp had not been as closely examined by Western specialists as it has been today. Since then it has been scrutinized and validated by courts in the United States, Israel, and Germany, though specialists at the current trial left room for doubt, with one conceding that a counterfeiter with the right materials could have forged the card and other documents.
Why am I not surprised the courts in those countries validated a lie?
FBI agents argued that the Soviets had an interest in faking the documents as part of a campaign to smear anti-communist emigres.
Those conclusions contradict the findings of another branch of the Department of Justice, the Office of Special Investigations, which was in charge of the overall Demjanjuk inquiry.
A quarter-century later, Demjanjuk, now 90, is standing trial in Munic. A verdict is expected within a month.
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"Demjanjuk loses bid to suspend trial" April 15, 2011|Associated Press
MUNICH — A German court yesterday rejected a defense request to suspend John Demjanjuk’s trial over a declassified FBI report that cast doubt on the authenticity of a key piece of evidence....
Before and during the trial, the ID was examined by several experts, all of whom declared it to be genuine.
Demjanjuk’s son, John Demjanjuk Jr., said the court’s ruling deprived the defense of materials that could set his father free.
“The decision to slam the door on more evidence continues a long trail of prosecutorial misconduct and the withholding of exculpatory evidence,’’ he said. “The Germans are afraid of what they will find.’’
Those sound like western courts, and we all know why (or of what) the Germans are afraid.
Demjanjuk, a retired Ohio autoworker, is accused of 28,060 counts of accessory to murder on allegations he served as a guard at the Nazis’ Sobibor death camp.
Even though he wasn't even there.
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Related: The Long Litany of Jewish Lies
I don't like it any more than you do, but there it is.
And speak of the devils:
"3 Al Qaeda suspects arrested in Germany" April 30, 2011|Associated Press
BERLIN — German police yesterday arrested three suspected members of the Al Qaeda terrorist organization who officials said posed a “concrete and imminent danger’’ to the nation.
Authorities did not say whether the three had planned specific targets and offered few details, but security officials said that all were of Moroccan origin....
Related(?): Does Alleged Bin Laden Kill Foretell Nuclear False Flag Attack In Libyan Coalition Hold-Out, Germany?
There was no indication that yesterday’s arrests had any link to a bomb attack in Morocco yesterday, which killed 15 people in a crowded tourist cafe.
Related: A Kiss is Just a Kiss
Maybe there is a connection.
Germany has so far escaped large-scale attacks by an Islamic terror organization, such as the Madrid train bombings of 2004 and the London transit attacks of 2005.
Related: Madrid bombing probe finds no al-Qaida link
More Evidence Madrid Bombing was a False Flag Op
THE NATO LINK TO THE MADRID BOMBINGS OF 2004
Madrid bombings Redux
FRU
May Day Memories: British Patsies
May Day Memories: The U.S. Connection
Terror Expert: London Bomber Was Working For MI5
Israeli Connections to the London Tube Bombs
Btw, ever hear of Mr. Aswat or Mr. Khan, readers?
So has Germany pissed off Israel lately?
Merkel urges Netanyahu to resume Mideast peace talks
Yup. Good thing the Germans are on the ball.
But Germany’s presence as part of the NATO coalition in Afghanistan has sparked anger, and at least two major plots have been thwarted or failed in Germany before they could be carried out.
The suspects had been under surveillance since November, when Germany increased security across the country in response to heightened terror threat warnings in Europe....
A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity in order to discuss an ongoing investigation, said that a SWAT team picked up three people in a raid on suspicion they were planning an attack with explosives....
How would he know so much about it? CIA-Duh agent call 'em?
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Also see:
Germany arrests 6 in euro coin fraud
Tree in Germany boasts 9,800 eggs
Globe laid a big egg with these stories.
Maybe this forgotten-by-the-web photo will make it smell better:
"MULTIHUED HARVEST -- Workers harvested tulips in a field near the eastern German town of Schwaneberg yesterday. The flowers are sold in Germany, France, Austria, and Switzerland (Boston Globe April 27 2011)."
Also forgotten: Spain fights for ‘Right to be Forgotten’ online
