Posted on 11/13/2009 10:38:32 PM PST by GVnana
The alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks will be tried in a civilian court blocks from where Al-Qaeda hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center, the US government announced.
Attorney General Eric Holder said prosecutors would seek the death penalty against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four suspected co-plotters, who are held at Guantanamo Bay but will be moved to a New York prison ahead of their trial.
"After eight years of delay, those allegedly responsible for the attacks of September 11 will finally face justice," Holder said, without giving a date.
"They will be brought to New York to answer to their alleged crimes in a courthouse just blocks away from where the Twin Towers once stood."
Five more Guantanamo detainees, including Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, accused of plotting the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole destroyer off Yemen that killed 17 US sailors, will be tried before military commissions.
The military tribunals were heavily criticized after being set up by former president George W. Bush in late 2001, but have since been reformed to grant defendants more rights to evidence and bar evidence obtained through torture.
The announcement, key to President Barack Obama's plans to shutter Guantanamo by January, was blasted by families of the nearly 3,000 victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
"To allow a terrorist and a war criminal the opportunity of having US constitutional protections is a wrong thing to do and it's never been done before," said Ed Kowalski of the 9/11 Families for a Secure America Foundation.
Peter Gadiel, who lost his 23-year-old son James in the World Trade Center's north tower, accused Obama of trying to establish a "show trial" that would end up being "a circus."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I heard Mark Levin state in the first hour of his show on the 13th that Eric Holder’s law firm of Covington and Burling (of which he is a senior partner apparently) is in fact representing 17 yemenni (sp?) terrorists and one pakistani terrorist that are currently being held in GITMO.
I suspect this is being done in an effort to get their clients acquitted.
This government is engaged in outright treason.
I am outraged beyond my ability to describe at this point.
Before we get all exited about this decision, which I agree is scurrilous, let’s look at the incontrovertible fact: Obama can not win this.
No matter what happens, he has made a fatal decision.
I cannot see any scenario which would come out in his favor. If any of you can, please indicate what it might be.
More of the problem is liberal education in public schools for the last 25 years or so . Most people under 30 are TOTALLY brainwashed.
If we don’t take to the streets and do it soon all is lost. And if we don’t take our outrage to the next level we will deserve the wrath that will fall upon us. Obam ahas weakened us and make our enemies bolder. We need to institute SERIOUS measures and we need to do it now .
I respect your sentiment, and while I agree with you, I must say that storming washington is what they want. They would declare martial law so fast...it seems like they are pushing us to it, because that is what they want.
and what do yo uwant to do about it . I say we need out and out riots and we need to have the traitors arrested .
He will thrill his lunatic base but putting on a Bush Bash extravaganza. ( his base by the way is still 1 out of every 2 Americans easily)He will encourage our enemies ( his friends ) and we won’t do shit about it and HE KNOWS THAT for a fact . So what is he going to loose in reality ..
NOTHING ..
I dunno, sonic. I agree with you completely. This is a very dangerous situation that is about to get much, much worse. Obama will tear this country to pieces before this ends I fear.
Then let the war begin. Whats the alternative ? Wait and vote next yer ..for who ? Some half assed phoney Republican who is nothing better than the worst Democrat? Time is up my friend act now and act severely or we are finished. Fairness Doctrine is on deck and FR and talk radio will be pahsed out .Folks like me and you wont be able to even know the facts anymore. I give us a year tops...Mark my words
We need to organize all the conservative groupes out there. There are hundreds. Alone they can’t do much , together we would ans a massive group. we need to employ the vERY successful tactics of the left. Strikes, riots , sit in s . We need to convince a nationally known personality to join us , some talk radio person perhaps. I’m asking people to help me draft a letter to these groups and personalities and help get th ball rolling. This has gotten REAL REAL bad now. Obama gets worse by the day . I need people to help me
Well, I have stocked up in preparation for such an event. I do believe that it is inevitable at this point. I’m trying to remain level headed this evening, because I am outraged beyond my ability to even talk about over this bull**** with these terrorists. The coward doesn’t even have the balls to be in this country when is AG pulls something like this, obviously ordered by obama, the terrorist.
Frankly, I will be very surprised if something major doesn’t happen within a year’s time. This man’s presidency is like a pressure cooker, and the flame is getting higher by the day.
“I cannot see any scenario which would come out in his favor. If any of you can, please indicate what it might be.”
“Al-Qaeda retaliates by kidnapping, torturing and executing Joe Biden.”
Oh no!!!!
I can actually imagine his feeling the need to escape to Cuba...
: )
The city’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, said he supported holding the trial in New York, which suffered the brunt of the attacks.Related article: Suspects face angry New York
“It is fitting that 9/11 suspects face justice near the World Trade Center site where so many New Yorkers were murdered,” Bloomberg said.
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Democrats stick together.
“Defense Secretary Robert Gates hailed the move as a major step forward as Obama seeks to close the detention center at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba by his self-imposed January 22 deadline.”
Officials told AFP that up to 65 of the 215 inmates who still linger at Guantanamo are ready for trial and Holder said to expect more announcements in “the very near future.”
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It’s a party! Maybe the O.J. jury is available.
Can’t agree with you on that. His real base is no more than 20-25 per cent. He will rally them, but the rest of America will be sick to their collective stomachs.
I repeat, there is no way Obama can win this.
Should the terrorists get acquitted there will be outrage.
There will be 3 or 4 years of this trial, of lawyers bashing America.
There could well be a coordinated terrorist attack on NYC. These accused were in the employ of Osama Bin Laden.
There could well be a free lance jihadist blowing people up.
There could well be the assasination of a judge, a juror or a witness.
All of the above would cause a revulsion in Americans like we’ve not seen. Obama has no upsides. Not a one. And there are so many potential pitfalls, he has to be clueless to be doing this.
As much of a travesty as that would be, it would finally be the end of Obama. It would lay bare the sheer buffoonery of his whole administration.
Even the most hard-core Libs -- and especially NY Libs! -- would be apoplectic if these POSs got off because they were given constitutional rights in a civilian court.
Holder will find a way to let Khalid Sheikh Mohammed go free. This dog and pony show is about putting the Bush Administration on trial. Obamao and his thugs know who their enemies are, and who the real terrorists are, you and me. Watch and see.
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