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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
American, 19, Among Gaza Flotilla Dead
2010-06-03
A U.S. citizen who lived in Turkey is among the nine people killed when Israeli commandos stormed a Turkish aid ship heading for the Gaza Strip, officials said today. The victim was identified as Furkan Dogan, 19, a Turkish-American. A forensic report said he was shot at close range, with four bullets in his head and one in his chest, according to the Anatolian news agency.
Excellent shooting, IDF! Like their counterparts, the SAS and Delta, the Israeli Sayeret Matkal has some phenomenal pistol shots.
Dogan was a high school student studying social sciences in the town of Kayseri in central Turkey. He was born in the United States and moved to Turkey at the age of 2. He will be buried in his hometown tomorrow.
Anchor baby dies at sea. What are the odds?
The body was returned to Turkey today along with eight others, all Turkish nationals, who were on board the Mavi Maramara.

The ship was sponsored by a Turkish charity, the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (IHH) and was carrying aid to Gaza in defiance of the Israeli blockade.
These clowns are more fact-challenged than most media, which is saying a lot: "The ship was sponsored by a Turkish charity terrorist front, the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (IHH) and was carrying aid redundant junk to Gaza in defiance of order to break the Israeli blockade and facilitate future weapons deliveries."
The charity released the names of all nine dead. All are male and the ages range from 32 to 61.

"We were handed nine dead bodies, but we have a longer list of missing people," Bullent Yildirim, chairman of the charity, told reporters as he landed at Istanbul airport after returning from Israel, where he said he had been kept in custody and questioned for three days.

The activists on board the ship told a very different version of events from the one released by the Israeli military.
Journalistic credulity can reach epic levels when it is willfull.
A Canadian on board, Farooq Burney, described watching an elderly man bleed to death.
This would probably be the 61 year old terrorist mentioned above.
The head of a Turkish charity that organized the aid flotilla said an Indonesian doctor was shot in the stomach and a photographer was shot in the forehead.
I don't think the doctor (of what?) was attempting to aid the battered Israeli soldiers, and the photog was, well, a photog.
Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy

#14  Good shooting IDF.

Keep up the good work. He wasn't an American. He was a terrorist.
Posted by: DarthVader   2010-06-03 22:38  

#13  I couldn't recall the advisor's name when I made the post above.

His name is Anwar al-Awlaki born 1971 in Las Cruces, New Mexico according to this.

As for the authorization to kill him:

"By April 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama approved the targeted killing of al-Awlaki as officials explained it was appropriate for individuals that posed an imminent danger to national security. That step required the consent of the United States National Security Council, and made al-Awlaki the first U.S. citizen ever to be placed on the list of those whom the CIA is allowed to kill."

In all likelihood Mr Dogan posed an "imminent threat" to the "national personal security" of Israeli troops, in that he was trying to lynch them.
Posted by: Hupineck Fillmore5329   2010-06-03 21:10  

#12  An idiot and his oxygen are soon parted. Sooner, in most cases, would be better.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2010-06-03 20:59  

#11  naturalized, IIRC
Posted by: Frank G   2010-06-03 20:20  

#10  Isn't Hasan's spiritual advisor, who is now officially a drone zap target, also a US citizen by birth?
Posted by: Hupineck Fillmore5329   2010-06-03 20:00  

#9  The charity released the names of all nine dead. All are male and the ages range from 32 to 61.

But what about dear, dear Furkan, The 19 year old high school student that leads the article? The "american". I'm a thinkin of just how many hundreds of thousands middle east and arab residents are about to demand passage back to america and other western countries as citizens. Anchors aweight. For Canada, it's the lebanese who call for help and demand to be saved from their brethern. over 80% illegal canadians but the stupid gov't protects them and has air-lifted hundreds out. including all those who have never set foot in canada,
Posted by: Swanimote   2010-06-03 19:49  

#8  Furkan Dogan,

Furkan idiot!

Posted by: classer   2010-06-03 19:17  

#7  Bad parenting!

Cleansing the gene pool.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2010-06-03 15:47  

#6  I disagree, how do we know it wasn't because Father forbid him from going that he left his High School and joined the Shooting Gallery? It may have been defective offspring not listening to their older, LIVING relations.
Posted by: Charles   2010-06-03 15:36  

#5  I hereby nominate the father of high school student, Furkan Dogan, 19, as the Rantburg worst father of the year. He sent his son on a ship, to attack gun toting commandos with a stick, and die, for newspaper headlines! Bad parenting!
Posted by: whatadeal   2010-06-03 15:11  

#4  If Cynthia Mckinney would go too the part of ATL that pretty much elected her she would probably be killed there
Posted by: chris   2010-06-03 15:11  

#3  Besoeker, how dare you expect a lefty to do anything?

It's all about how they feel, not about what actually happens. It's all about them, don'tcha know?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2010-06-03 14:35  

#2  A Canadian on board, Farooq Burney, described watching an elderly man bleed to death.

Generally what happens unless someone seizes some initative and attempts to STOP THE BLEEDING!
Posted by: Besoeker   2010-06-03 14:27  

#1  Dear Israelis,

Next time, will you please make an extra effort to kill Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, George Galloway, and Cynthia McKinney. You will be doing both yourself, and your real friends in America and Britain a big favor.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-06-03 13:06  

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