Wednesday 27 January 2016

Israel on Wednesday made public a handwritten request for clemency by the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, in which the key architect of the Holocaust protested his innocence over the mass killing of Jews.

Israel on Wednesday made public a handwritten request for clemency by the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, in which the key architect of the Holocaust protested his innocence over the mass killing of Jews. The letter, part of a tranche of several previously unpublished documents, was released by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin to mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“There is a need to draw a line between the leaders responsible and the people like me forced to serve as mere instruments in the hands of the leaders,” Eichmann reportedly wrote in his final plea, adding that he was only following orders.
“I was not a responsible leader, and as such do not feel myself guilty,” Eichmann wrote. “I detest as the greatest of crimes the horrors which were perpetrated against the Jews and think it right that the initiators of these terrible deeds will stand trial before the law now and in the future.”
Eichmann, who was captured by Mossad agents from Argentina — where he was living under a pseudonym — in 1960, was one of the architects of the Nazis’ “Final Solution,” which led to the deaths

A U.S. warship was warned to leave an area of the Sea of Oman where Iran’s navy was conducting military exercises Wednesday

A U.S. warship was warned to leave an area of the Sea of Oman where Iran’s navy was conducting military exercises Wednesday, Reuters reported. The news comes just weeks after 10 U.S. sailors were detained by Iran after entering the Islamic Republic’s territorial waters, in what officials said was a navigational mistake.
Iran’s military drill Wednesday near the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial oil and gas trade route, reportedly included speedboats and submarines, in a move to exercise the country’s defenses against hypothetical enemies attempting to enter its waters, Iran's Tasnim News Agency reported. "It was predictable that the U.S. warship would approach the area to collect information on (our) military operations. So we warned them twice in the morning ... to keep their distance from the exercise area and keep clear of our missile range for their own safety,"  said Habibollah Sayyari, commander of Iran's fleet, according to media reports.

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