Unreal. Instead of giving him to us as we had requested, Germany has swapped plane-hijacking terrorist Mohammed Ali Hamadi, one of the killers of Navy diver Robert Stethem, for German Muslim-convert Susanne Osthoff, who was being held hostage in Iraq. This appears to have been done to reward those members of Germany's large and unassimilated Muslim population who demonstrated against her kidnapping.
German authorities say the timing of Hamadi's release with Osthoff's was a coincidental matter of custom. They decided to replace their monthly Lange Samstag, a Saturday where stores stayed open late, with Terrorist Donnerstag, a Thursday where they spring a random terrorist and give him an armed escort back to his home country.
I'm sure the men of the USS Stethem would like to put a shell in something right about now.
(Via Ace.)