Posted on 06/21/2007 1:01:08 PM PDT by SmithL
Richmond, Va. (AP) -- An American Muslim convicted of plotting to assassinate President Bush had been tortured into confessing and was denied his constitutional right to confront his accusers, his attorney told a federal appeals court Thursday.
Ahmed Omar Abu Ali claims Saudi security officials whipped and tortured him into giving a false confession, attorney Joshua Draytel said.
Draytel also claimed his client's constitutional right to confront his accusers "took a ferocious beating" because the Saudis testified from Riyadh while Abu Ali was in a Virginia courtroom.
Abu Ali should have been taken to Saudi Arabia since the Saudi government would not allow its agents to come to the U.S., Draytel said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney David H. Laufman countered that Abu Ali's trial in November 2005 was fair and that there was no doubt about the validity of his written and videotaped confessions.
"The sheer detail of these confessions is astonishing," Laufman told the three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which later conducted a closed session focusing on classified information.
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Boo freakin hoo.
I realize that this may be extremely politically incorrect, but I admire the way the Saudis handled the interrogation of this maggot.
Waaah.
Good!
Except, you know it's a lie. On a par with, "Moslems broke into my house and flushed my Merriam-Webster Second International Dictionary down the toilet."
Since he's lying about this, can Abu-Whatever be prosecuted for perjury, too? Double-parking, maybe? I'm kinda hoping if you stack up enough of those, it'll add up to the death penalty.
Maybe I'm mis-reading the article, but it sounds like he wasn't sent to Saudi Arabia. They're saying he was tortured here by our people and they're saying he should have been sent to Saudi Arabia instead (I guess where he would be treated nicely!).
Saudi security officials BUMP!
Abu Ali should have been taken to Saudi Arabia since the Saudi government would not allow its agents to come to the U.S., Draytel said.
Which, to me, implies that he was held here (or maybe GTMO) and interrogrted by us rather than by the Saudis.
I think that I saw a tape of all this — where the guy was whipped by a pair of panties and then those panties were put over his head. Or something like that.
If I’m right about this, we have to let him go.
It looks like he's claiming the Saudis did it - but he doesn't say whether it was here or there.
The article makes clear that he was apprehended and interrogated by the Saudis. He was an American citizen “studying” in Medina. He was then extradited back to the U.S. where (with the evidence presented by the Saudies), he was formally charged with the conspiracy to commit murder against the president.
I saw that.
Can you imagine the Dems ... President Cheney! They’d be falling all over themselves. Spilling water all over themselves.
They apparently think Cheney wouldn’t go “hunting them”....
The mere piling up of a lot of details doesn't guarantee that it's the truth.
I don't know what this guy is worried for--his chances of being pardoned by the next Democrat president are a lot better than Libby or those border guards have of getting a pardon from GWB.
Ditto freakin’ ditto!!!
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