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...terrorism and of preparing for the incineration of Iraq in "Phase II." You might have thought it was not the American President flying in for a chat, but Genghis Khan and Mussolini rolled into one. So much for the theatrics of globalized protest as perfected in Seattle, Prague and Genoa. But there is much more to the drama. Here are some numbers. Total defense expenditure in the world is around $800 billion. The U.S. is good for $331 billion of that, meaning No. 1 spends almost as much on bombs and bullets as all the others combined. A few months...
...Italian media have dubbed him the butcher of Genoa. Friedrich Engel, now a frail 93, is accused of ordering the execution of 59 Italian inmates from a Genoa prison in May 1944 in retaliation for a bomb blast at a cinema that killed five German marines. Engel, who was a member of the Nazis' élite Waffen SS security service, admits he took part in the executions. "Yes I was involved, but I don't feel entirely guilty," he told German television last year. "They were all partisans, terrorists who participated in earlier actions against Germans." Now Engel is being...
Engel, the Genoa suspect, has lived since the war in Hamburg, where he was in the lumber-importing business. After the war he lived under an alias for nine years but then assumed his real name under an amnesty. Since then he has periodically been the subject of war-crimes investigations but escaped indictment. For years, evidence of Nazi war crimes was suppressed by the Italian government for fear of damaging postwar European unity...
...people he shot personally, according to eyewitness testimony. He was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Italian court, but Germany doesn't allow for its citizens to be extradited abroad. Meanwhile, Engel has insisted he is innocent of any crime. Speaking of the 59 people who were taken from Genoa's Marassi prison and shot in groups of six outside town, he said, "I want to stress that these 59 were martyrs. They did not cry, they did not shout, they did not ask for mercy." All that remains is to determine what degree of mercy the court will...
...there are reasons beyond the police department?s expertise for our quiet time. Plainly, demonstrators had no stomach for a real confrontation with the heroes of Sept. 11; equally, it has been very clear from talking to representatives of NGOs that the events in Genoa, which led to one death, have persuaded them to stay away from any demo that was likely to be hijacked by anarchists and the Black Blocs. Some of us have been urging responsible NGOs to take such a position since the riots in Prague at the World Bank/IMF meetings in 2000; better late than never...