WASHINGTON: A career US diplomat indicted this week for sending threatening messages to an Arab political organisation has retired from the foreign service.
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, State Department spokesman said yesterday.
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Federal prosecutors charged in an indictment that Syring had left multiple expletive-laced messages with the Arab American Institute whose founder, James Zogby, had criticised the government for not doing enough to protect US citizens visiting family members in Lebanon.
"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 Hizbollah-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."
And we wonder why they hate us.
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