Sunday, June 06, 2010

The martyrs of the Mavi Marmara -

Cengiz Akyüz
Ali Heyder Bengi
Ibrahim Bilgen
Celdet Kiliçlar
Cengiz Songür
Çetin Topçuoglu
Fahri Yaldiz
Necdet Yildirim
(all Turkish nationals)

Furkan Doğan
(US national)

"Nine Turkish men on board the Mavi Marmara were shot a total of 30 times and five were killed by gunshot wounds to the head, according to the vice-chairman of the Turkish council of forensic medicine, which carried out the autopsies for the Turkish ministry of justice today.
"The results revealed that a 60-year-old man, Ibrahim Bilgen, was shot four times in the temple, chest, hip and back. A 19-year-old, named as Fulkan Dogan, who also has US citizenship, was shot five times from less that 45cm, in the face, in the back of the head, twice in the leg and once in the back. Two other men were shot four times, and five of the victims were shot either in the back of the head or in the back, said Yalcin Buyuk, vice-chairman of the council of forensic medicine.
"The findings emerged as more survivors gave their accounts of the raids. Ismail Patel, the chairman of Leicester-based pro-Palestinian group Friends of al-Aqsa, who returned to Britain today, told how he witnessed some of the fatal shootings and claimed that Israel had operated a 'shoot to kill policy'.
"He calculated that during the bloodiest part of the assault, Israeli commandos shot one person every minute. One man was fatally shot in the back of the head just two feet in front him and another was shot once between the eyes. He added that as well as the fatally wounded, 48 others were suffering from gunshot wounds and six activists remained missing, suggesting the death toll may increase."
(Guardian, 4th June, emphasis added)

Apparently six of the fatalities were the victims of one man, who is to be decorated for his heroism. Presumably he's one of those professional killers the Israelis send out to murder Palestinians worldwide. As these killing took place in international waters this individual didn't need to adopt a stolen British identity.

5 comments:

thankgodimatheist said...

UK author Iain Banks urges Israel boycott
(Reuters) - Author Iain Banks called for a cultural and educational boycott on Israel Thursday following its deadly raid on a flotilla of ships carrying aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6524EY20100603
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Do you know him Jemmy?

Jemmy Hope said...

Not personally, TG, only by reputation, which places him among the top fiction writers of the day. My elder son's a big fan and has recommended him to me, but I don't read much fiction these days.

"In late 2004, Banks was a member of a group of British politicians and media figures who campaigned to have Prime Minister Tony Blair impeached following the 2003 invasion of Iraq."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Banks

thankgodimatheist said...

More lies!
Evidence emerges that the time stamp on the video showing the activists "preparing to assault the commandos" indicates that the Israeli attack has already taken place for almost an hour.
http://aliabunimah.posterous.com/mavi-marmara-was-heading-away-from-israelgaza?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AliAbunimah+%28Ali+Abunimah%29

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Jemmy Hope said...

I wonder if the BBC will report this story.
Let me think.
No they won't.

fleming said...

The two New Jersey men arrested two weeks ago and charged with plotting to kill and maim people outside the United States are vivid case histories. Mohamed Alessa, 20, of Palestinian descent, and Carlos Almonte, 24, a Muslim convert from a family of Dominican immigrants, were often in trouble in high school (where Alessa, for one, talked about mutilating homosexuals, subordinating women under the name of Islam, and blowing up the school).