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Late in life and prevented by the [[United States]] from returning as a free man, Fischer (whose mother was Jewish and he had many Jewish friends and admirers) made [[anti-Semitic]] and [[Anti-Americanism|anti-American]] remarks in the media over the next ten years.  While in his never-ending exile, he praised of the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] when he stated "well, this is all wonderful news. It's time for the [expletive] US to get their heads kicked in. It's time to finish off the US once and for all."<ref>''Bobby Fischer on September 11, 2001'' Transcript [http://everything2.org/index.pl?node_id=1214006 everything2org]. Accessed 18 January 2008. The interview can also be heard on YouTube, but does contain the uncensored expletives.</ref> This cost him his membership in the United States Chess Federation (USCF), which has since been restored. This was generally viewed as symbolic, since Fischer not only did not play chess anymore, and his angry comments may have been due to how the United States was attempting to extradite and imprison him for having played a harmless game of chess contrary to so-called international law.  In 2004, Fischer was arrested in [[Japan]], and afterward took [[asylum]] in [[Iceland]]. He died of [[kidney]] failure in January 2008.

Late in life and prevented by the [[United States]] from returning as a free man, Fischer (whose mother was Jewish and he had many Jewish friends and admirers) made [[anti-Semitic]] and [[Anti-Americanism|anti-American]] remarks in the media over the next ten years.  While in his never-ending exile, he praised of the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] when he stated "well, this is all wonderful news. It's time for the [expletive] US to get their heads kicked in. It's time to finish off the US once and for all."<ref>''Bobby Fischer on September 11, 2001'' Transcript [http://everything2.org/index.pl?node_id=1214006 everything2org]. Accessed 18 January 2008. The interview can also be heard on YouTube, but does contain the uncensored expletives.</ref> This cost him his membership in the United States Chess Federation (USCF), which has since been restored. This was generally viewed as symbolic, since Fischer not only did not play chess anymore, and his angry comments may have been due to how the United States was attempting to extradite and imprison him for having played a harmless game of chess contrary to so-called international law.  In 2004, Fischer was arrested in [[Japan]], and afterward took [[asylum]] in [[Iceland]]. He died of [[kidney]] failure in January 2008.

Even though Fischer himself was [[Jewish]], he often signed his name as “Robert James”, eliminating the racially ambiguous “Fischer”, and had demanded to be excised from a Jewish encyclopedia.  According to Grandmaster Larry Evans, Fischer had once told him that he admired [[Hitler]] because "he imposed his will on the world". At a 1992 press conference, Bobby Fischer called communism, rightly enough, “a mask for Bolshevism,” but he then stunned his audience by calling Bolshevism “a mask for Judaism.”  In January 14, 1999, during an interview on Filipino radio, Bobby Fischer said, “You know they [Jews] invented the [[Holocaust]] story. There’s no such. There was no Holocaust of the Jews in [[World War II]].”  Bobby Fischer also admitted to belief in a “giant conspiracy of the Jewish world government.” Yet, despite, Bobby Fischer's openly anti-Semitic remarks, he had several close Jewish friends. According to the American Jewish master Ron Gross: "Bobby says we’re all victims of the conspiracy."

Fischer often signed his name as “Robert James” and had demanded to be excised from a Jewish encyclopedia, mentioning that he was uncircumcised.<ref>https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer</ref> According to Grandmaster Larry Evans, Fischer had once told him that he admired [[Hitler]] because "he imposed his will on the world."  At a 1992 press conference, Bobby Fischer called communism, rightly enough, “a mask for Bolshevism,” but he then stunned his audience by calling Bolshevism “a mask for Judaism.”  In January 14, 1999, during an interview on Filipino radio, Bobby Fischer said, “You know they [Jews] invented the [[Holocaust]] story. There’s no such. There was no Holocaust of the Jews in [[World War II]].”  Bobby Fischer also admitted to belief in a “giant conspiracy of the Jewish world government.” Yet, despite, Bobby Fischer's openly anti-Semitic remarks, he had several close Jewish friends. According to the American Jewish master Ron Gross: "Bobby says we’re all victims of the conspiracy."

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