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Holder: Osama bin Laden will never face US trial
yahoo ^ | 3/16/10 | DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Write

Posted on 03/16/2010 1:35:51 PM PDT by Nachum

WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder says Osama bin Laden (oh-SAH'-muh bin LAH'-din) will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive.

Holder sternly rejected criticism from Republican lawmakers on a House Appropriations subcommittee, who contend it is too dangerous to put terror suspects on trial in federal civilian courts.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bin; binladendeathwatch; elvisbinladen; ericholder; holder; huntforobl; laden; osama; pentagonbomber
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To: Nachum
Well that's interesting, Mr. Holder. Is that a death threat? Are you stating for the record that Obastard has instructed Department of Defense personnel to kill Mr. bin Laden in the event they capture him? You do know, don't you Mr. Holder, that that is a violation of the Geneva Conventions, even, I believe, as they apply to so-called illegal combatants?

All of which raises one nagging little question: why is that group of Navy Seals still being prosecuted for giving a captured terrorist a fat, bloody lip?

In short, who made you judge, jury, and executioner, Mr. Holder; who made you God?

Such typical liberal hypocrisy.


21 posted on 03/16/2010 2:02:12 PM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: Nachum

Holder would talk out of the other side of his mouth.... if OBL were black.


22 posted on 03/16/2010 2:05:51 PM PDT by Gator113 (I do not want Obama IMPEACHED... I want him IMPRISONED. Are we there yet? 2010-2012)
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To: RC2
I know what I would do. Execute him before he could ever reach the United States. Problem solved.

That is what Holder seems to be saying, but as an AG he really can't say that.

The problem with the Dems is neatly encapsulated by Holder's response. The fact that they haven't considered the possibility of OBL's capture means that they haven't thought seriously about what they'd do with him if they did.

This omission also allows them to treat the Gitmo Detainees as petty criminals instead of illegal combatants. If you lump OBL into the Gitmo detainees it would crystalize the public thinking as to what to do with all the detainees.

I never believed that US troops were likely to bring in OBL. I just think that OBL is not physically inside any region where the US military operates with a free-hand. Therefore, if we were to get him it would be one of his inner circle betraying him to the Pakistanis, Saudis, or Yemenis who would then turn him over to us.

So then what? Holder seems to be saying that he hasn't considered any of this. Heck, this is what we pay him to do. Consider the alternatives, no matter how unlikely.

23 posted on 03/16/2010 2:13:13 PM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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To: K-oneTexas
Agree. UBL is either dead or hiding in an Iranian castle courtesy of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Admanadinajad Amadnutjob (whatever) or at least in country with no extradition (and socialized medicine or the best doctors money can import).

There. Fixed it for you.

24 posted on 03/16/2010 2:31:37 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Papa of two new Army Brats! Congrats to my Soldier son and his wife.)
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To: Nachum
I've always thought OBL did not survive the bunker busters that flattened parts of Afghanistan after 9-11.

I guess our intelligence has done voice analysis to confirm the lastest communication is indeed him.

Unless they thought it best for the world to believe him still alive?

25 posted on 03/16/2010 2:32:52 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Nachum

I thought bin Laden was convicted of murder right after 9/11 in abstentia, so why would he need another trial?


26 posted on 03/16/2010 2:44:05 PM PDT by quintr
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To: quintr

IMO he doesn’t need a trial - he needs execution.


27 posted on 03/16/2010 3:03:01 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Papa of two new Army Brats! Congrats to my Soldier son and his wife.)
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To: Nachum

Holder’s statement is an implicit ok to assassinate ObL; does this mean that the previous presidential directive forbidding assassinations has been rescinded?


28 posted on 03/16/2010 3:06:15 PM PDT by Real Cynic No More (The only thing standing between us and complete victory over the evildoers is POLITICS!)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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Is this more of our outreach to the Muslim worle? A demonstration of our justice system?

We need civil trials, it's the American way.

KSM will be convicted, if he isn't he'll stay in jail anyway.

bin Ladin, he won't make it to court.

Sounds like the words a tinpot dictators 4th in command to me.

Keep your mouth shut, Eric, you make us look bad. Your boss too.

29 posted on 03/16/2010 4:24:30 PM PDT by SJackson (Barack Obama went to Harvard and became an educated fool. Rep. Bobby Rush)
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To: Nachum

Holder made an a$$ of himself. Glad to see it


30 posted on 03/16/2010 4:48:26 PM PDT by dennisw (It all comes 'round again --Fairport)
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To: Nachum

bump


31 posted on 03/16/2010 4:57:23 PM PDT by tutstar (Baptist Ping list - freepmail me to get on or off.)
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To: b4its2late
Good evening. I hope you are feeling well.

First thing I thought of when I heard this. How can you bring a dead man to trial?

5.56mm

32 posted on 03/16/2010 5:22:08 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: b4its2late
It’s cause “He’s Dead, Jim.”

I agree. Sean Penn would have visited him by now if he was alive.

33 posted on 03/16/2010 5:54:57 PM PDT by Hillbillary (I know how to deal with Communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: SJackson
bin Ladin, he won't make it to court.

Sounds like the words a tinpot dictators 4th in command to me.

They protect terrorists more than they protect American citizens. I can imagine how bad things are going to get over the next three years.

34 posted on 03/16/2010 8:49:04 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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To: Nachum

OBL is living in Hollywood. Sean Pennhead and crew just love him.


35 posted on 03/16/2010 9:42:23 PM PDT by Karliner ("Things are more like they are now than they ever were before."DDE)
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To: Tolsti2

We already paid the price, twice if you count the World Trade attack in 1993. Too bad that thousands of people from all over, not just NY, paid the ultimate price 9 years ago. And too bad so many fellow NYers learned nothing from the horror.


36 posted on 03/17/2010 10:39:27 AM PDT by ariamne (Proud shieldmaiden of the infidel--never forget, never forgive 9/11)
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To: Nachum
Dead more than 8 years!
37 posted on 03/19/2010 8:20:16 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Iran should have ceased to exist Nov 5, 1979, but we had no president then either.)
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To: All
The other day Rush said OBL is deader than a doornail and has been for years.

The Maharushie knows, shiver ((( ))).

Leni

38 posted on 03/19/2010 8:29:29 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Bill O'Reilly: 9/8/09: "Communism is not a threat to us anymore"-10/20/09: "Obama is not a Marxist")
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To: Nachum
To Eric Holder: Obama bin Laden may face US Trial someday and if that day ever comes Eric you will be one of his many co-defendants.
39 posted on 03/19/2010 8:35:12 PM PDT by hflynn (The One is really the Number Two)
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