Ghailani Verdict Proves Law Enforcement Approach Not Effective In War On Terror

Flopping Aces ^ | 11-18-10 | Curt

[Starman417]

Unless you've been hiding under a rock I'm sure you heard about the one and only terrorist President Obama sent to our civilian justice system from Gitmo was found not guilty on all 200+ charges except one, conspiracy:

A federal jury in Manhattan has returned what is transparently a compromise verdict in the terrorism trial of Ahmed Ghailani.

The case centered on al-Qaeda’s bombing of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August 1998. There were 285 counts, including separate murder charges for each of the 224 people killed. Ghailani was acquitted on 284 of them and convicted on a single charge of conspiracy to destroy government buildings.

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...the Justice Department walks away from the case as a big loser. That’s because the Obama administration made this much more than a terrorism trial. It cherry-picked the case to be a demonstration that the civilian criminal-justice system is up to the task of trying terrorists. This was to be the “turn the clock back” moment — specifically, back to the Clinton years, when Eric Holder was deputy attorney general and when prosecution in civilian courts was the U.S. government’s principal response to the jihadist onslaught that began with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

This was the model that Barack Obama campaigned on and that the anti-anti-terrorist Left takes as an article of faith. No more Bush-era counterterrorism: no enemy combatants, no military commissions, no indefinite detention, and certainly no aggressive interrogation. The president and his attorney general are adamant that “the rule of law” must be restored.

Never mind that the laws of war — which support all the Bush-administration measures — are the rule of law during wartime. Never mind that at no point in our history have the nation’s wartime enemies been given access to the civilian justice system and endowed with all the protections and presumptions that American citizens receive. To the Obama Left, the law-enforcement approach is effective national security, a way to win the hearts and minds of Muslims and consequently make ourselves safer. It makes no difference that the country was demonstrably unsafe — and repeatedly attacked — during the Clinton years. Nor does it matter that people in Islamic countries have no idea of the legal differences between American civilian and military proceedings — they care only that we are imprisoning Muslims, not about the abstruse details of our basis for doing so.

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So now Americans will trust that KSM, the mastermind of 9/11, will not have the same fate if brought to our justice system?

No way no how.

As so many have stated, this was the Obama test case and as many of us predicted, it's outcome was horrible.

[VIDEO AT SITE] or HERE

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

The same can be said about our approach to broader security, its not a law enforcement matter, its an invasion.

You don’t send the Sheriffs Dept to repel an invasion, you send the Marines.

[muawiyah]

One of the more disturbing aspects of this case is the man murdered black African people and our Leider has absolutely no interest in seeking justice for them.

I can only gather the jealousies of the Luo (Obama's supposed tribe) are hereditary or something.

[Prussianone]

Hey boy! Where is that ‘death penalty’ that you assured us would take place, on camera?

Folks, get your CHL license, get a revolver (I’ll explain) of a caliber that does NOT hurt your hand, practice often, watch videos if you cannot afford to go to a trainer, but learn! It will be the best time for you, your family, and your future.

EXPLANATION: Jack Ruby would not have been able to do what he did, with a semi-automatic pistol. (The part that you see moving on a semi-automatic pistol, if moved a little back, can ‘interrupt’ it being fired!) That was just a simple .38 caliber, good ol’ two-inch barreled Joe Friday snubnose revolver. Think carefully here. Big caliber numbers are nice, i.e., .38Special, .357Magnum, .41Magnum, .44Special, .44Magnum, .45 Long Colt, and .45ACP., but when you fire that off, the more bang out the front, the more buck on your hand. I shoot both a 9mm Browning Hi-Power (not a cheap pistol), and either a Taurus Model 82 revolver, or a Smith and Wesson Model 15 (Air Force ‘skycop’ favorite revolver), in .38 Special, and both four-inch barrels, but that’s me.

[Cindy]

INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - For The Record - The IPT Blog: "EMBASSY BOMB PLOTTER'S CONVICTION UPHELD" (SNIPPET: "Ghalfan Ghailani") (January 21, 2011, 1:16 pm)

[piasa]

This approach works much better:

Israeli agents killed Al Qaeda’s No. 2 official on street in Iran: report
The Hill ^ | 11/13/20 | Tal Axelrod
Posted on 11/14/2020, 2:07:02 AM by volunbeer

Israeli agents assassinated Al Qaeda’s No. 2 official in a shooting in Tehran three months ago, eliminating a mastermind behind the deadly 1998 attacks on American embassies in Africa.

Intelligence officials confirmed to The New York Times that two Israeli agents were acting at the behest of the U.S. when they shot Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah from a motorcycle on Aug. 7, the anniversary of the embassy bombings. His daughter Miriam, the widow of Osama bin Laden’s son Hamza bin Laden, was also killed.

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