Posted on 10/06/2009 2:43:48 PM PDT by topfile
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided not to seek the death penalty against a former Guantánamo detainee who was ordered by President Obama to face trial in a civilian court in New York.
Mr. Holder communicated the decision to federal prosecutors in Manhattan on Friday, and they in turn informed the federal judge who is presiding in the case.
“You are authorized and directed not to seek the death penalty against Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani,” Mr. Holder wrote to Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Mr. Ghailani faces federal charges of conspiring in the 1998 bombings of the United States Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, attacks organized by Al Qaeda that killed 224 people and wounded thousands.
Afterward, he became a fugitive, and he received weapons training in a Qaeda camp in Afghanistan, military authorities have charged. They said that he also worked as a bodyguard and cook for Osama bin Laden, as well as a document forger for Al Qaeda.
Mr. Ghailani was captured in 2004 and held in secret prisons run by the Central Intelligence Agency until 2006, when he was moved to the Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
A Tanzanian believed to be in his mid-30s, Mr. Ghailani has claimed in court papers that he was a victim of cruel interrogation techniques and was not afforded the right to remain silent or to have a lawyer.
The case is considered an early test of President Obama’s goal of closing Guantánamo and of trying terrorism suspects in the federal courts “whenever feasible,” as the president said in May.
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How and the hell can he tell the court to charge or not charge a person in a federal case?
Is it not a two tiered “justice” system?
Blacks can attack whites at the polls helped by Obama and AG Holder.
Terrorists freed after murdering Americans by Obama and AG Holder.
Get-Out-Of-Jail Cards for anyone in the DNC (see Berger).
Congressmen can play the stockmarket and banks with impunity.
Brothels and criminal illegals are the new arteries running through America.
My bet is that he is Odinga connected.
We need to find that out.
224 dead, but it does not rate the death penalty.
Mark my words, if osama is ever captured he will not face the death penalty.
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In the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings , hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous car bomb explosions at the United States embassy in the East African capital cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya....
that killed 11 people faces nine war crimes charges, six of them offenses that could carry the death penalty, if he is convicted by a military tribunal, it was reported on March 31 2008. Scott L. FenstermakerScott L. Fenstermaker
Sorry, no overview for this topic
and David Remes are in a rare dispute as to who has authorized to assist Ghaliani.
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Ahmed_Khalfan_Ghailani
Oh boy nothing like them proving Osama right about America being a paper tiger! Dipsh!ts all!
It would of been cheaper to send in the CIA or Spooks and just blown these bastards to hell.
oh boy...maybe the muslim in the WH is worried about what the Saudi Wahabbe retaliation might be if his adminstration carries out a death sentence on a muslim...it’s got to be a very delicate situation. The Saudi’s can decapitate their own in chop-chop square, but woe-betides The Great Satan should do the same. He’s walking bare-foot on broken glass...so to speak, but better to create an outrage at home than upset the the true masters, hey?
Mybe if he committed adultry we can chop his head off.
if they don’t support the death penalty for someone who killed 224 people then they have no business ruining .. er I mean running our government
Go figure - Obama gives the death penalty to millions of innocent unborn babies, yet this murdering muslim gets a pass.
Is it okay if we give him a stern talking-to?
What you say is true of murderers extradited from certain countries, mostly European. They won’t extradite unless the U.S. promises not to impose the death penalty.
But I don’t see any indication that that applies in this case. This terrorists was “captured,” I think by our military, and held by the CIA in Guantanamo.
The article says: “Mr. Holder’s letter offered no reasons for his decision.”
So, you are right about certain extradition cases, but I don’t think that applies here.
I read the ny times piece and that is the reason they are giving.
The only surprise is that Holder didn’t set the guy free with a plane ticket to Chicago, a job with ACORN, and $100k spending money to ‘get on his feet’.
Actually it's more like an excuse. The Spokesman said "Other" defendants (not Ghailani specifically) was covered by extradition agreements.
That is what I thought too.
Of course Bill Ayers would naturally offer to be the host family.
Perfect...Obama Administration making excuses for terrorist.
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