Posted on 07/25/2008 4:11:09 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Some interesting testimony from an FBI interrogator in the trial of Osama bin Laden’s driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan.
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, July 23 — Osama bin Laden’s driver witnessed the al-Qaeda leader being briefed on the day of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and overheard him express satisfaction that the death toll had exceeded expectations, an FBI interrogator testified Wednesday.
Salim Ahmed Hamdan, now held at the U.S. military prison here, had said under questioning six years ago that bin Laden was “happy about the results” of the terrorist strikes because he had expected “only” 1,000 to 1,500 people to die, former FBI agent Ali Soufan told jurors at Hamdan’s military trial.
During the 2002 interrogation, Hamdan “said he had heard bin Laden saying he didn’t expect the operation . . . would be that successful,” Soufan said. Nearly 3,000 people perished in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Hamdan, who is charged with participating in a terrorist conspiracy, is the defendant in the first U.S. military commission held since World War II.
According to Soufan, Hamdan said that on Sept. 11, 2001, he was present for a meeting in Kabul, Afghanistan, between the al-Qaeda leader; his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri; and Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the assault on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. As the men viewed pictures of the 19 suicide hijackers, bin Laden “praised them and their courage and asked God to accept them as martyrs,” Soufan quoted Hamdan as saying.
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I’ll bet bin Laden didn’t gloat half as much as the DemocRATS did. They were absolutely delighted, especially the liberal pinheads in “academia.” They said that we “deserved it.”
Saudi Arabia should have been first on the list to be invaded and owe us reparations to the tune of a trillion dollars.
Sad that W put his own interests ahead of the nations.
If 18 skinheads from America flew planes into an Israeli building after training in Chechnya, would it be right for Israel to attack America?
The country of Saudi Arabia has been an American ally, and remains so today.
That’s what I and Dubya haven’t forgotten.
The raghead kingdom, home of the black rock in mecca, owes us for 2 skyscrapers and 3000 lives.
THEY HAVE NOT PAID DIME ONE AND LAUGH AT US.
Their time will come.
You meant to say that it is a tyrannical absolute monarchy that has sometimes found it convenient to hide behind our men at arms when neighborhood bullies threaten, and in return has been willing to suppress the fanatic bloodthirstiness of the vast majority of its ignorant and lazy citizens.
I cannot think of a worse country in the entire world. If the fit hits the shan in the Middle East, I pray that the outcome is the Israeli conquest and occupation of the entire country, and the eradication of its religion. I want to see Israeli soldiers using the Kaaba for their latrine.
That’s a nice ‘hypothetical’. If the USA was fostering a religion/aggression that intentionally attacked civilians, then yes, we would deserve to be taken out.
However, that’s not the case is it? Although, AFTER they did it first, it should be.
It sounds like he is being tried because he didn't run to the American embassy and turn everybody in. He had weapons in the trunk but a lot of people have them in war zones.
They are asking for the death penalty so I hope there is more than this. Are they going to try and execute the cook for not poisoning Bin Laden as well?
This first trial ought to be a headliner since it's the one people will pay attention to. This limo driver isn't it. I'm sure he's guilty of something but he shouldn't be the scapegoat for the real criminals.
Am I the only one feeling this way?
Driver told FBI agents U.S. could have killed bin Laden
McClatchy Newspapers | July 25, 2008 | Carol Rosenberg
Posted on 07/26/2008 8:26:24 AM PDT by Entrepreneur
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