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Austria's Haider dies in accident
By: BBC on: 11.10.2008 [11:32 ] (781 reads)
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Austria's Haider dies in accident
Police said Mr Haider was driving alone when his car veered off the road
Austrian far-right politician Joerg Haider has been killed in a road accident, police say.
Mr Haider suffered severe head and chest injuries after his car came off the road in Carinthia, his political base.
Police investigating the crash said he had been driving alone.
The 58-year-old was leader of the Alliance for Austria's Future, and was known for his anti-immigration and anti-EU policies.
The Alliance was one of two right-wing parties which did better than expected in general elections last month, fuelling speculation of a possible role in a ruling coalition.
Obituary: Joerg Haider
He had reportedly been due to attend his mother's 90th birthday celebrations later in the day.
"For us this is the end of the world," the deputy leader of Mr Haider's Alliance for Austria's Future, Stefan Petzner, told Austrian news agency, APA.
Austria's President Heinz Fischer said Mr Haider's death was a "human tragedy", while Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer described him as someone who had shaped Austria's domestic and political landscape over decades, according to the Associated Press news agency.
EU sanctions
Mr Haider was a divisive figure, who gained notoriety after he became leader of the Freedom Party in 1986.
In 1991, his term as governor of the province of Carinthia was interrupted, after he made comments praising employment policies of Nazi Germany.
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Mr Haider speaking about immigration in September
But he was re-elected in 1999 and 2003.
In 2000, the EU imposed sanctions against Austria in a protest over his party's role in government.
In 2005, Mr Haider left the Freedom Party and founded the Alliance for Austria's Future, which scored its best result so far in elections last month, gaining 11% of the vote.
This was, however, well below the 27% which the Freedom Party won under his leadership in 1999 - a high mark in Mr Haider's electoral career at national level.
"With his passing, Austria has lost a great political figure," said Heinz-Christian Strache, who had taken over as leader of the Freedom Party after Mr Haider left.
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by cosmo on 11.10.2008 [11:56 ]
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Something is out of tone when it comes to the death of Haider by a simple accident.
Covert ziooperation which stupid/bought policemen can buy into that.
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by Seele on 11.10.2008 [13:25 ]
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@cosmo
exactly that s what i was thinking too . Especially since Haider was visitor of Saddam Hussein and did not dislike the Hussein government. Moreover Haider just recently lashed out against the banker mafia and told en detail about the great fraud which the banker mafia is currently carrying out against the people of the world.
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by Crack_Smoke_Republican on 12.10.2008 [01:37 ]
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Published: June 2, 2005 at 3:46 PM
LONDON, June 2 (UPI) — The Israeli secret service, Mossad, spied on Jörg Haider, the right-wing Austrian populist, The London Times newspaper reported Thursday.
Mossad used Peter Sichrovsky, one of Haidar's closest aides, to gather information on his contacts with Arab dictators. Sichrovsky said he had been a Mossad informant for five years until retiring from politics in 2002.
"I wanted to help Israel and certainly did not do anything wrong," said Sichrovsky, who was secretary-general of Haider's Freedom Party and a member of the European Parliament.
The Austrian state prosecutor said Wednesday he would open an investigation to determine whether Sichrovsky should be prosecuted. Spying for a foreign power carries in Austria a jail sentence of up to three years.
The revelations, in the news weekly Profil, stunned the Austrian political class. The Jewish community had regarded Sichrovsky as a traitor, while anti-Semitic Freedom Party activists made no secret of their distrust.
The Freedom Party became a member of Austria's governing coalition in 1999, prompting a diplomatic boycott by the European Union. Haider had publicly praised the SS and Hitler's employment policies. Israel withdrew its ambassador.
theinfounderground. com /forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2550
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by Crack_Smoke_Republican on 12.10.2008 [01:38 ]
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From The Jewish Chronicle, October 3rd 2008.
Israel has expressed "deep concern" over the massive success of the Austrian far-right in this week's elections.
The combined success of the far-right parties amounted to almost a third of all votes cast in the early elections, called after Austria's coalition collapsed in June. They may now be called upon to help form a new government.
"We regard what happened as a matter for deep concern," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor. "It is extremely preoccupying that elements which promote xenophobia and Holocaust-denial and befriend neo-Nazis are gaining political ground and obtaining widespread support. We will follow developments very closely."
The Freedom Party took 18 per cent of the vote, with its former leader Jörg Haider taking 11 per cent with his breakaway Movement for Austria's Future.
Just weeks ago, Ariel Muzicant, the president of the Austrian Jewish community, said that although Mr Haider's party had formally distanced itself from the Nazis, "if you scratch below the surface, those well-known underground Nazis come out, and in droves".
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by Sandy on 12.10.2008 [07:00 ]
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Austria............3years for spying for a foreign country(ie traitor) adn 5 years for Holocaust questioning.................................work it out.
timing very convenient. Just as the numbers of the two parties combined is enough to challenge the ruling party(equal to actually). And the stooge is uncovered and removed so perhaps the risk is high that.....? What ? Why such close watching and control by Mossad of Austria, a tiny incunsequential EU country????????????????????????????????
There maybe something of importance there. I wonder if it has anything to do with past hitory and the interpretation and control of it.Certainly it was important in Germnay as they have so far coffed up 60billion in "reparations" to Israel for what a fascist Dictaorship did , or allegedly did to ? exactly whom? Did the Gypsies or Polish or Slavs get any compensation when that was whom the mass machine gunning murders were most against. The zionists were even in alliance with the NAZIs to gathe Jews for Palestine-the Transports adn Tansit camps-that is what they were called because they were TRANSIT camps to...........guess.
So why are the current day Germans paying reparations to Israel? Why not to the other vicitms? Why do german victims of the NAZI dictatorship have to be so brainwashed as a people to not realise how badly they have been had and how it is THEY yet again who are the vicitms and suckers.
Anyway, why the interest in Austria? Is there such high level interest in other EU countries that we never hear about (never cuaght or so in control they are secured)?
Where is the car alleged to have been overtaken? that is the eyewitness that needs to be thoroghly examined. Either they are lying as in teh UK Railway shooting of Menedez(stooge media witness outside told a whopper) or the coincidence did indeed happen and this chap's speed and loss of control was his undoing and he did indeed crash.
These things are rarely openly sorted out so one can only guess at these two possibilities.
What a coincidence!
zap
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by RinTinTin on 12.10.2008 [21:56 ]
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Another dead fashist.
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