[Mannaggia l'America]

in retaliation for the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal.

In other words, Bush's Fault™

[oceanview]

right, that's a theme of the defense in all these terror cases. As with Sammi Al Arian - they try and get the jury (they only need one or two holdouts) to put Bush on trial in these cases, as opposed to the defendant. And it works sometimes, but not with a NYC jury.