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McKinney released, returning to US | |
2009-07-06 | |
“We finally got word that she was released,” Leola McKinney said late Sunday afternoon. “We don’t know what time she is supposed to fly out. All we know is that they took her to the airport. “I would be more relieved when I know she’s on the flight,” Leola McKinney added. “But I am relieved that she’s away from there.” McKinney had been in custody since Tuesday, when she and 20 others were swept up by the Israeli Navy while allegedly trying to sail through a navy blockade. The group says it was attempting to deliver humanitarian supplies to Gaza. McKinney and the rest of her group could have been released soon after they were taken into custody but they refused to sign a document admitting they violated Israel’s blockade, according to McKinney’s parents. The group was due to appear in an Israeli court Sunday. Leola McKinney said she had no information about the court hearing. Leola McKinney said she had not spoken with her daughter since shortly after she was taken into custody. Cynthia McKinney and other members of the “Free Gaza Movement ” left Cyprus Tuesday on the Greek-registered ship Arion. Their ship was stopped when they tried to pass through the Israeli Navy’s security blockade at Ashdod. The group was taken into custody and their ship was seized. Israel officials promised to deliver by ground all of the humanitarian supplies that were on the boat. Leola McKinney said the trip would have received no “publicity if they had been allowed to deliver supplies to Gaza. They [Israel] made an issue out of it by taking the boat and escorting them into Israel.” Billy McKinney, Cynthia McKinney’s father and a | |
Posted by:Steve White |
#9 I am so surprised this woman didn't get a position in the Obamadministration Perhaps she hasn't gotten caught cheating on her taxes. |
Posted by: DMFD 2009-07-06 21:35 |
#8 Count on it. |
Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-07-06 14:07 |
#7 She will try to come back as a martyr. |
Posted by: Percy Snogum9637 2009-07-06 13:52 |
#6 I am so surprised this woman didn't get a position in the Obamadministration. She's qualified: a) woman b) black c) commie d) loon oops - maybe she actually paid her taxes.... |
Posted by: Fester Ebbineper9428 2009-07-06 13:07 |
#5 I am sure there were some serious long-term issues involved: only G-d knows how much worse the mental make-up of the average Israeli-imprisons Palestinian terrorist would be seriously infected with even casual contact with a world-class froot-loop like McKinney. |
Posted by: Ptah 2009-07-06 12:27 |
#4 Does Pravda pay overtime when you're in jail? |
Posted by: hammerhead 2009-07-06 09:31 |
#3 I wonder if there would have been a way of saying she got lost and wandered across the Chinese/North Korean border? Lost in transit? |
Posted by: tipover 2009-07-06 00:51 |
#2 Rats. I was hoping Israel would trade her to Iran for some fake oranges or potatoes, anything but send her back here. |
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-07-06 00:21 |
#1 Darn Israel, I was hoping they would send their asses to jail, mostly hers. Now we are gonna have to put up with this nut job on all the news channels. Now you know with all the starving Norks she would never help there. |
Posted by: 49 Pan 2009-07-06 00:11 |