Posted on 11/18/2010 4:27:57 PM PST by jazusamo
What if Osama bin Laden was captured, brought to trial and walked? This question comes to mind after the Justice Department only managed to convict al Qaeda embassy bomber Ahmed Ghailani on one of 285 counts against him before a federal court in Manhattan.
Ghailani - considered a "high-value" terrorist - was charged with murder and conspiracy related to al Qaeda's 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 224 people and wounded thousands. Ghailani, a former bodyguard for Osama bin Laden, was the first detainee transferred from the U.S. prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the U.S. civilian criminal justice system. His trial was a critical test of the Obama administration's approach to dealing with terrorists. In September, President Obama was confident that his model would work. "Some have derided our federal courts as incapable of handling the trials of terrorists," he said. "They are wrong." The president continued that American courts, juries and citizens "are tough enough to convict terrorists," but the real issue was not who was "tough" but whether Mr. Obama's Justice Department was skilled enough to deliver convictions. That matter is now seriously in doubt.
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Mr. Obama's overly legalistic approach to bringing terrorists to justice is in tatters, and a serious public debate is in order over how to handle future such cases. Last year, when Mr. Gibbs was asked what might happen if Ghailani wasn't convicted, the flack declined to speculate. "I'm not going to get into hypotheticals," he said. "Let's discuss that if it ever comes to fruition." No time like the present.
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I believe Bin Ladin is dead, but just for the moment, let’s pretend he is not. What IF he is caught under this administration’s watch? Can we stand to watch more of the incompetent boobery that has been displayed by BO and his subordinates?
If Bin Ladin is still alive, may he run free until Jan 20, 2013.
We can’t kill the murderers, but we can kill all the babies we want.
Something seems amiss with that.
This is going just the way 0bama intended it would. Ladies and Gentlemen we have the first of many OJ’s.
Or maybe he will run for President in 2012.
And that one guilty count is being appealed so he may walk.
The one count he was convicted on carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years without parole-- not exactly an OJ result.
Yep, this made it clear that Zer0 and his flunky Holder are determined not to seek justice for these terrorist murderers.
“Or maybe he will run for President in 2012.”
There are millions of leftists in this country who would vote Bin Laden. Any enemy of the USA is a friend of the leftist vermin.
Dead on the money and it’s sad, very sad.
It’s true and bin laden will get better treatment when he appears on the View as well and this terrorist will walk with a book deal.
The democrat way:
compassion for killers
infanticide for infants
tolerance for terrorists
disarming America for Russia/China/Iran superiority
amnesty for votes/politically incorrect slavery
jobs for illegal aliens
If Charles Manson had committed his crimes these days all he’d have to do is cop to being a muslim terrorist instead of an angry white guy.
Or just declare us a caliphate and have himself appointed.
Enter the vigila...
Uh, nevermind.
In the 2004 Senate race, Alan Keyes called Obama’s foreign policy views the equivalent of trying to take on a bayonet with a wet spaghetti noodle. And of the two men, who does the political establishment mock to this day? Why, Alan Keyes, of course!
I guess all those people who got blown up just don’t matter. Not guility and he got to hear that in court over 200 times! only in the USA as we know it.
Don’t forget what obama did with the cole bomber as well as khadar.
Yep, Zer0 knows nothing of foreign policy nor do the thugs he appointed. Zer0’s day of reckoning will come, I just hope it isn’t too late for the country.
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