DemocRAT's SHAME! Israel Navy Arrests Nigger Ex-Rep McKinney
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Israel navy intercepts boat with ex-U.S. Rep. McKinney
Story Highlights
Free Gaza Movement says its boat was taking aid to Gaza
Israel says it warned boat not to ignore naval blockade
Cynthia McKinney, Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire among boat's crew
Military says aid aboard boat will be delivered "subject to
authorization"
Tue June 30, 2009
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- The Israeli navy took control of a boat that
violated an Israeli blockade and crossed into Gazan waters Tuesday,
the Israel Defense Forces said, while a Gaza group said the ship was
carrying humanitarian aid, a former U.S. congresswoman and a Nobel
laureate.
Cynthia McKinney reportedly is asking the international community to
demand the crew's release.
The boat's crew included former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, according
to the Free Gaza Movement, a human rights group that sent the boat it
calls "Spirit of Humanity" from Cyprus.
Along with McKinney, who served six terms in the House of
Representatives from Georgia and was the Green Party's presidential
nominee in 2008, Israeli authorities took 20 people into custody, the
group said.
Also aboard, the group said, was Mairead Maguire, who co-founded a
group that worked for peace in Northern Ireland. Maguire and
co-founder Betty Williams received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 for
their work.
IDF said the Israeli navy contacted the boat, which it called the
Arion, while it was still at sea and warned the crew they would not be
allowed to enter Gazan waters "because of security risks in the area
and the existing naval blockade."
Disregarding all warnings, the boat entered Gazan coastal waters, IDF
said. An Israeli navy force intercepted, boarded and took control of
the boat, directing it toward Ashdod, Israel, IDF said.
The boat's crew, the military said, would "be handed over to the
proper authorities."
Without naming individuals on the boat, IDF confirmed the incident it
described was the same one detailed by the Free Gaza Movement.
According to the Free Gaza group, McKinney said, "This is an
outrageous violation of international law against us. Our boat was not
in Israeli waters, and we were on a human rights mission to the Gaza
Strip," before authorities confiscated cell phones.
"President Obama just told Israel to let in humanitarian and
reconstruction supplies, and that's exactly what we tried to do. We're
asking the international community to demand our release so we can
resume our journey," McKinney said, according to the group.
McKinney's father, former Georgia state legislator Billy McKinney of
Atlanta, said he received a call from his daughter about 3 a.m.
Tuesday. She told him "I'm OK. I'm OK," then hung up as Israeli
military began to board the ship, Billy McKinney said. He added that
the U.S. State Department gave his family a contact with the U.S.
Embassy in Israel but by Tuesday night the family had not heard
anything back from the embassy.
IDF said the aid aboard the boat would be delivered to Gaza "subject
to authorization."
"Any organization or country that wishes to transfer humanitarian aid
to the Gaza Strip can legally do so via the established crossings
between Israel and the Gaza Strip with prior coordination," IDF said.
Free Gaza said the Spirit of Humanity voyage is the eighth such trip
the group has launched. Five succeeded, the group said, but the
Israeli military stopped attempts in January
Ken
You really need to cut McKinney some slack, she probably thought she
was going to a Michael Jackson wake or something. Anyone who has
followed her actions in the past knows she is lost like a goose and
cannot be held responsible for her actions!!