Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Thursday, July 29, 2004


With ferocious defiance from a jail cell in Japan, chess legend Bobby Fischer has told authorities he is a German citizen with the documents to prove it, invoking his lineage to a German-born father in an attempt to stymie any U.S. extradition proceedings against him.

YOU CERTAINLY DO SOUND IT.

Under German law, anyone born before 1975 to a German father who was married at the time, is entitled to citizenship. And Germany's extradition treaties do not allow its citizens to be deported to face charges in other countries, German officials in Tokyo said.

I SMELL AN INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT!

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