Nothing says ‘peace activist’ like serving a prison term of attempted hijacking
Turns out a on the so-called humanitarian/peace activist on the Turkish Mavi Marmara of the Gaza Strip Flotilla just happened to served a prison term for hijacking a Black Sea Ferry. Jerusalem Post:
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 nine member 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.
Coincidence?!? I bet if the Canada Boat to Gaza people asked nicely; he’d crew for them too!
