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WASHINGTON: A career US diplomat indicted this week for sending threatening messages to an Arab political organisation has retired from the foreign service, the State Department said on Thursday.
Patrick Syring retired last month, about a year after he allegedly left racist and intimidating phone and e-mail messages with the Arab American Institute but before his Wednesday indictment on federal charges of threatening and violating civil rights laws, spokesman Sean McCormack said
Mr Syring has chosen to retire from the State Department, McCormack told reporters. He declined to comment on the specifics of the matter, citing privacy concerns but stressed that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would not tolerate the behaviour in which Syring is alleged to have engaged.
Let me just underline the seriousness with which the secretary approaches the idea that the State Department should be a work place that in no way, shape or form, tolerates discrimination or hateful language or any other action that would violate federal laws or regulations, he said. It is just not condoned or acceptable in this department. The only good Lebanese is a dead Lebanese. The only good Arab is a dead Arab, Syring is alleged to have said, accusing Zogby of being anti-Semitic, prosecutors said.
You wicked evil Hizbullah-supporting Arabs should burn in the fires of hell for eternity and beyond, Syring wrote in one e-mail, according to the prosecutors. The US would be safer without you. Syring also praised Israeli forces for bombing Lebanon back to the Stone Age where it belongs.
Anti-Arab diplomat quits State Department
Patrick Syring retired last month, about a year after he allegedly left racist and intimidating phone and e-mail messages with the Arab American Institute but before his Wednesday indictment on federal charges of threatening and violating civil rights laws, spokesman Sean McCormack said
Mr Syring has chosen to retire from the State Department, McCormack told reporters. He declined to comment on the specifics of the matter, citing privacy concerns but stressed that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would not tolerate the behaviour in which Syring is alleged to have engaged.
Let me just underline the seriousness with which the secretary approaches the idea that the State Department should be a work place that in no way, shape or form, tolerates discrimination or hateful language or any other action that would violate federal laws or regulations, he said. It is just not condoned or acceptable in this department. The only good Lebanese is a dead Lebanese. The only good Arab is a dead Arab, Syring is alleged to have said, accusing Zogby of being anti-Semitic, prosecutors said.
You wicked evil Hizbullah-supporting Arabs should burn in the fires of hell for eternity and beyond, Syring wrote in one e-mail, according to the prosecutors. The US would be safer without you. Syring also praised Israeli forces for bombing Lebanon back to the Stone Age where it belongs.
Anti-Arab diplomat quits State Department
Well, i feel like swearing at the dude but unfortunately ur site does not allow it!
Go to aljazeera.com and u'll get to see idiots like these all the time... i think he was born in hell!... i wonder how happy these people feel when they hear about civilians dying in Iraq and Palestine...
