{"id":1218,"date":"2010-06-22T23:06:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T22:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2011-05-18T14:01:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T13:01:06","slug":"profiles-of-those-killed-on-the-mavi-marmara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/22\/profiles-of-those-killed-on-the-mavi-marmara\/","title":{"rendered":"Profiles of those killed on the Mavi Marmara"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Israeli Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center has released a list <\/a>of those killed aboard the Mavi Marmara. Eight out of nine had links to terrorism. Several wrote wills or expressed their wish for martyrdom.<\/p>\n

The report notes that no Western or Arab\/Muslim\u00a0human rights activists were killed; they all had Turkish nationality.<\/p>\n

Here’s the summary, for details follow the link the link:<\/p>\n

The following conclusions arise from analyzing the identity and affiliation of the nine Turkish nationals killed aboard the Mavi Marmara:<\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. The major role played by the Islamic organization IHH: <\/em><\/strong>out of the nine people killed, <\/em>four were identified as IHH operatives or activists. <\/em><\/strong>Four others were members of Turkish Islamic organizations or parties <\/em>affiliated with the IHH. <\/em><\/strong>The remaining victim is an ordinary Turkish volunteer who was caught in the event for unclear reasons.<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. Operatives from the Turkish Felicity Party (Saadet Partisi): <\/em><\/strong>at least two of the people killed belong to the Felicity Party, an Islamic party established in 2001 with the support of ex-politician Necmettin Erbakan (after his Welfare Party, Refah Partisi, was banned from politics). <\/em>The party espouses cooperation between Muslim countries, war on Zionism, and confrontation with the West.<\/em><\/strong> <\/em>In April 2010, the party announced it would take part in the flotilla together with the IHH and the Free Gaza movement. <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Thugs among those killed: <\/em><\/strong>one of the people killed is a former Taekwondo champion; another worked at an Istanbul sports association; <\/em>still another worked as a security guard at IHH conferences in the city where he lived.<\/em><\/strong> It should be noted that one of the Mavi Marmara passengers related during questioning in Israel that <\/em>he had seen several IHH thugs carrying clubs. <\/em><\/strong>Statements taken from Israeli navy commandos show that <\/em>there were thugs among the operatives who fought them. <\/em><\/strong>The presence of those thugs among the hard core of IHH operatives was part of the preparations for the confrontation.<\/em><\/li>\n
  4. Statements made by relatives of those killed about their desire to become shaheeds and preparation of wills: <\/em><\/strong>relatives of four killed operatives testified that they wanted to die as shaheeds. It was reported that two of the killed operatives had left a letter or a last will before setting sail. <\/em>\u201cI pray that Allah will give us a happy endings, just like those shaheeds\u201d, says one of the killed operatives on a video tape found aboard the Mavi Marmara. <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. No human rights activists among the victims: <\/em><\/strong>conspicuously absent are human rights activists from Western countries and from the Arab\/Muslim world, some of whom came on board the Mavi Marmara out of a genuine desire to deliver humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. <\/em>Those activists avoided joining the organized fighting against the IDF, stayed inside the ship, and did not go to the upper deck where the fighting took place.<\/em><\/strong> One of the Turkish nationals killed was a high school student. We have no information that he was connected with any Islamic organization.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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    The Israeli Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center has released a list of those killed aboard the Mavi Marmara. Eight out of nine had links to terrorism. Several wrote wills or expressed their wish for martyrdom. The report notes that no Western or Arab\/Muslim\u00a0human rights activists were killed; they all had Turkish nationality. Here’s the summary, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[223,1],"tags":[475,4,549,550,491,493],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel-palestine","category-uncategorized","tag-ihh","tag-israel","tag-itic","tag-killed","tag-mavi-marmara","tag-turkey","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1220,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}