Posted on 09/20/2011 9:05:33 PM PDT by george76
RADICAL Muslim cleric Abdul Benbrika has escaped trial over his plot to bomb Australia and he could walk free from jail in only six years.
One of his co-accused Melbourne terrorists already has been released and the other two are eligible to be freed in November...
The decision to abandon the case was made despite terror cell members associated with Benbrika ordering or buying all the chemicals and equipment needed to make a "Mother of Satan" bomb capable of killing hundreds.
Police planted many listening devices in the homes of various cell members and secretly recorded 16,418 hours of Benbrika and the Melbourne and Sydney cell members talking during a 16-month inquiry.
They also tapped hundreds of phones and monitored 97,480 calls between Benbrika and Melbourne and Sydney cell members in relation to their alleged plot to commit a terrorist act, which would not be put before a jury.
The police and legal costs associated with trying to get Benbrika and three of his followers to trial on conspiracy to commit a terrorist act charges were at least $20 million.
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Algerian-born Benbrika was an illegal immigrant who was ordered out of Australia in 1990, 1994 and again in 1995 before winning an appeal to stay.
Benbrika, 51, a professed religious sheik, and six of his Melbourne cell members were jailed in 2008 after being found guilty of being members of a terrorist organisation.
Victorian Supreme Court judge Terry Forrest recently granted a defence application to permanently stay the conspiracy case against Benbrika, Joud, Sayadi and Raad, saying it would be "oppressive" to subject them to a second trial...
In handing down his decision to abandon the conspiracy to commit a terrorist act charges, Justice Forrest said if it had proceeded it would be "lengthy, complex and expensive".
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
We need a good dose of faith and a border fence. In the meantime, I’m sure Oblemball will welcome him as a guest speaker at the White Cribs next Black Panthers meeting with open arms.
If the judges refuse to do their job then it falls to the citzens to defend our nation. From enemies outside and within.
>Justice Forrest said if it had proceeded it would be “lengthy, complex and expensive”.
So when this mohamamadman gets out and kills a bunch of innocents this cost effective judge will still have his job.
Justice delivery is not for the weak at heart or the stupid.
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