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...there was an extermination program to kill all the Jews, how come so many of them survived?" DAVID IRVING, British historian, speaking to the BBC from an Austrian prison. Irving is appealing a Vienna court's decision to sentence him to three years in jail for denying the Holocaust...
...denying the Holocaust; by a judge in Vienna. Irving, who was sentenced to three years in prison, was arrested in November on charges relating to speeches he gave in 1989 in which he contended, among other things, that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. Convicted under an Austrian law that makes it a crime to deny or "grossly play down" the Nazi genocide, Irving said he had become a "victim of political theater...
...There was the big scandal at the Olympics. Authorities raided the Austrian team headquarters, found hundreds of syringes and drugs. They said there's enough stuff there to support a major league baseball team." --JAY LENO...
...Vienna, Austria. The controversial British historian was arrested last November on charges stemming from two speeches he gave in Austria in 1989, in which he called the gas chambers of Auschwitz a "fairytale" and claimed that Adolf Hitler had protected Europe's Jews. Irving, who was seized by Austrian police on his way to address a far-right student fraternity in Vienna, told the court that he had since changed his views and felt sorrow "for all the innocent people who died during the Second World...
...That was enough to get a green light from Guariniello. So Agovino ordered 20 Carabinieri agents, including two linked to a special Health Ministry squad, to carry out a rapid-fire sweep of five residences where Austrians were staying in Pragelato Plan and Cesana San Sicario, the two hamlets hosting the cross-country and biathlon events. The Saturday-night raid was a first-ever antidoping police blitz at an Olympics, and the i.o.c. came along. So while the police scoured the houses and the athletes for any evidence of doping substances or equipment, Olympic officials demanded that 10 Austrian athletes...