Gulf Daily News
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.
The spokesman declined to comment on the specifics of the matter, citing privacy concerns but stressed that Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice would not tolerate the behaviour in which Syring was alleged to have engaged.
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"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.
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