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July 10, 2006 -- Leading neo-conservative activist slain on street in trendy Georgetown neighborhood. Alan Senitt, a 27-year old British citizen and leading neo-conservative activist was killed on Q Street, near Wisconsin Avenue in the trendy Georgetown neighborhood just after 2 am Sunday morning. Senitt, an unsuccessful Labor Party candidate for the House of Commons, twice elected as head of Britain's Union of Jewish Students -- a pro-Israel organization -- and a policy adviser for former Virginia Governor Mark Warner's 2008 presidential campaign, died at the site of the attack from a slash wound to his throat. Four individuals from the crime-ridden areas of Southeast and Northeast Washington were arrested for the murder and the attempted rape of Senitt's female companion. The attack occurred while Senitt and his companion were trying to retrieve something from the trunk of a car. Senitt was very active in the neo-conservative movement. He attended the 2003 Interdisciplinary Conference in Herzliya, Israel sponsored by the Institute for Policy and Strategy of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy. Senitt represented the Union of Jewish Students of the UK and Ireland. Others in attendance at that meeting included Israeli espionage agent Larry Franklin, the Iraq/Iran Terrorism Desk Office in the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans; Franklin's associate Michael Rubin (later with the American Enterprise Institute); Michael Ledeen, Joshua Muravchik, and Christoper DeMuth of the American Enterprise Institute, Harold Rhode of the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment; Pat Robertson of the Christian Broadcasting Network; Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), Ariel Cohen of the Heritage Foundation; Alan Dershowitz of the Harvard Law School; Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League; Jan Van Der Hoeven of the International Christian Zionist Center; Martin Indyk of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy of Brookings; Herbert London of the Hudson Institute; Norman Podhoretz of Commentary magazine, and his wife Midge Decter of various right-wing organizations, including Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution, and the now-defunct Nicaraguan Freedom Fund; and Kenneth Abramowitz, Managing Director of the Carlyle Group. According to today's Washington Post, Washington police believe that Senitt was the victim of the same gang that had committed robberies of pedestrians in Georgetown and on the Washington Mall. One of the men arrested for the attack denied being involved in the murder although he apologized for what happened while being led away by police in handcuffs. Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM
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