Terrorist Criminal Trials and the Coming Jihad

The American Thinker ^ | November 27, 2009 | Abraham H. Miller

[Scanian]

After the bombing of the American embassy in Nairobi, the police found amid the belongings of one of the perpetrators a list of the unindicted co-conspirators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York. The list had been submitted to the lawyers for the defendant, Sheik Abdel Rahman, and signed by Mary Jo White, the United States attorney. Under the rules of discovery in a criminal trial, the defendant had every right to the list. If you read through the names of the unindicted co-conspirators, one name will jump off the page and grab your attention. It is Number 95: Osama bin Laden.

If ever you needed a reason why terrorists have to be dealt with as foreign combatants, and not as criminals, it would have stared you in the face from the discovery process of Sheik Rahman's trial. But there was more. Rahman's activist attorney, Lynne Stewart, used her position to pass information from the cleric to his terrorist followers in Egypt. Stewart was later disbarred and sentenced to twenty-eight months in prison.

[Cindy]

AMERICAN THINKER.com - blog: 'TERRORIST CRIMINAL TRIALS AND THE COMING JIHAD" by Abraham H. Miller (SNIPPET: "Obama is willing to compromise intelligence and provide the jihadists with a propaganda platform because he needs to placate the extremist elements of his political base. By taking these terrorists out of the military's hands and putting them into the criminal justice system, Obama is redefining terrorism as a criminal justice issue and not as irregular warfare. In this, Obama is beginning a process that will reshape the meaning of terrorism in consonance with the sympathetic, minimalist notions of leftist ideology. Terrorist trials in the media capital of the world will be a magnet for the inspired publicity of jihadism.") (November 27, 2009)

[ARridgerunner]

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[McGruff]

Of all the idiotic decisions Osama has made this may be the one that turns him into another Jimmy Carter.

[politicianslie]

By taking these terrorists out of the military's hands and putting them into the criminal justice system, Obama is redefining terrorism as a criminal justice issue and not as irregular warfare.

Clinton also tried to treat terrorists as criminals.

Democrat = Soft on terrorism, that should come as no surprise

[DNME]

I was just thinking ...

During jury selection, I’ll bet the defense insists upon having at least two faithful Muslims on the jury.

And that will make a hung jury, therefore a mistrial, nearly automatic.

Then again, New York has more than its share of liberal, whacko judges, so I’ll be curious to see which black robe gets to preside over this cluster(bleep).

[JimRed]

Rahman's activist attorney, Lynne Stewart, used her position to pass information from the cleric to his terrorist followers in Egypt. Stewart was later disbarred and sentenced to twenty-eight months in prison.

She should have had the choice of being hanged or shot for treason!