Posted on 02/26/2009 2:42:28 PM PST by americanophile
What happens when the terrorists decide to kill all the jurors when they convict these guys?
“WASHINGTON – Federal prosecutors plan to move an alleged al-Qaida sleeper agent out of a Navy brig in South Carolina and send him to federal court in Illinois to face trial. “
Burris’ replacement in the Senate?
That's what this is all about. That's also why Democrats want gay marriage, lots of $$$ for divorce lawyers.
Gee... It sure would be too bad if he was to have some kinda accident or sumtin'.
>>In 2002, Ali was charged with making false statements to the FBI and to financial institutions, identity fraud, and credit card fraud.[1] Al-Marri was alleged to be in possession of more than 1750 credit card numbers, along with the names of the account holders, none of whom were Al-Marri. He was also alleged to be in possession of falsified identification documents. Additionally, he was alleged to have used a Qwest calling card to call a number in Dubai linked to the reputed al-Qaeda financier Mustafa al-Hawsawi.
After searching al-Marri’s computer, folders were found labeled “jihad arena” and “chem,” which (according to the government) contained information on hydrogen cyanide, a poisonous gas produced in large quantities by several industrial processes in the U.S. and listed amongst chemical warfare agents that cause general poisoning,[2] along with lectures by Osama bin Laden and links to Web sites related to weaponry and satellite equipment.[3] <<
I hope they had more than that.
That could be a criminal who was fascinated with or fantasized about Jihad and made one call trying to join Al Quaida.
Now, probably he is either a terrorist or a wannabe terrorist but I don’t any reason to strip him of his right to a trial with the right to put on a defense.
He’ll probably either either police or federal protection.
Ayers will be inviting the terrorist to dinner the second that the liberal judge sets him free.
Hopefully after his trial in Daley Plaza,,they’ll send him down to Marion Illinois, there is a great prison there.
Based on a Wikipedia entry?
>>...I don’t any reason to strip him of his right to a trial with the right to put on a defense.
There may be additional evidence - that might change things. But I’m going on the info we have in front of us.
Again, from Wikipedia? If so, unfortunately, your informational standards are at rock bottom.
Go for a twofer....put Ayers on trial with al-Marri, and build a double gallows.
Al-Marri shares the same list of contacts as Mohammed Atef, a US citizen who worked out of Barack Obama's family's country of Kenya, and who was involved in the 1998 US embassy bombings that occured there and in Tanzania. Some of the perps in that bombing plot, such as Wadih el Hage, were involved with IARA [another agency with offices in Chicago] and also ran and worked for a Kenyan terror charity called "Help Africa People." El Hage [and another individual, the woman Siddiqui, that was part of al Qaeda's post 911 follow-on ops as was al Marri] was also involved in the gem trade. That leads to Liberia and Sierra Leone, and the battles over the gemstone mines there, which brings to mind all the liberal hysterics about Bush taking down Charles Taylor, the best buddy of Illinois' favorite loudmouth Jessie Jackson.
There are a lot of politicians who received goodies from these terror charities so there is probably a strong desire in Washington and particularly in "Crook county" Illiois to handle the al Marri matter creatively...in such a way that not too much of what and who he was actually involved with gets exposed.
al Marri wasn’t in the credit card theft business for personal gain like some sort of common criminal. He was in it on the instructions of his commanders, at the request of a declared foreign enemy of the US, and his activities benefitted them. [al Qaeda declared war on the US before the 1998 US embassy bombings,and al Marri trained in their camps and indeed, was sworn to them, even went so far as to request to become a martyr for them against US targets, though his bosses had other things in mind for him.]
In other words, al Marri is not a criminal, he’s part of an invasion force of enemy combatants.
>>He trained for two years under the Islamic Jihad’s Egyptian chemical engineer Midhat Mursi al-Sayid ‘Umar [aka Abu Khabab al-Masri aka Abu Khabab]... the guy who was featured in an al Qaeda video gassing dogs.<<
That’s enough to convince me that he is almost certainly a terrorist sympathizer and probably a terrorist.
But I don’t see anything that should would justify taking his right to a fair trial away.
Illinois? They’ll release and he’ll be elected to congress next year.
Well, then you should be pleased to know he had his day in court, he plead guilty and was sentenced lightly by a judge appointed by Bill Clinton who admitted that al Marri would, if released, immediately go back to his terrorist ways but who decided in spite of that, felt sorry for the guy because some man ol’ interrogator kept him awake nights without a teddy bear, or showed him a scary bug... that he should be compensated with a lighter than expected sentence so he can return to his ways much quicker than estimated and well before the war is over, and maybe the next time around the terrorists can finally take out the US Bank Tower or poison a water supply without any interference, which was on the guy’s agenda.
Obama kindly released the guy to return him to his homeland in a last minute scramble before the new congress was sworn in, so I’s say he received a most fair deal and I would not be surprised if Michelle Obama saw him off at the airport and gave him a gift basket with a bottle of White House honey, a cute stuffed green bird, and a lei made by the official White House florist. Maybe Feinstein herself was there to kiss and make up.
Note: this topic is from , with the 1/22/2015 update of sorts in message 38. Thanks piasa.
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