Posted on 05/20/2009 8:25:25 PM PDT by La Lydia
A top al Qaeda suspect held at Guantanamo Bay will be sent to New York for trial, an Obama administration official said Wednesday. Ahmed Ghailani would be the first Guantanamo detainee brought to the U.S., and the first to face trial in a civilian criminal court. An official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to disclose the decision, told The Associated Press the administration has decided to bring Ghailani to trial in New York. He was indicted there for the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa - attacks that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.
Ghailani, a Tanzanian, is a high-value detainee captured in Pakistan in 2004 and transferred to the U.S. detention at the U.S. naval base in Cuba two years later.
The official said the administration plans to announce Thursday morning that Ghailani will be brought to trial for the embassy attacks....Some lawmakers have already voiced opposition to bringing Guantanamo detainees to the U.S. for trial, even in heavily guarded settings....
Mr. Obama met with representatives of the ACLU, Human Rights Watch, and other human rights groups at the White House today. Mr. Obama is scheduled to give a major speech addressing Guantanamo and national security Thursday morning...
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Why wouldn’t it be true? The entire kangaroo court will make Odumbnuts look good. I wouldn’t be surprised if Odumbnuts pardons the guy if he’s convicted.
That’s what I was thinking. There is sure to be a run on ammonium nitrate shortly before his trial. I sure wouldn’t want to be working in the federal courthouse where they plan to try this specimen, especially since the Obamites have put the kibosh on keeping tabs on the ones who are in this country.
Maybe they want to draw them out for capture?
naw... too smart for them.
Ok with me though, as long as they do it in NY
As recently as four years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that federal courts may consider habeas corpus petitions by the Guantánamo Bay detainees. In response, Congress rewrote the law twice in an attempt to limit the avenues of appeal by the detainees.
In 2007, by a 2-to-1 vote, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found that the most recent version of the law did not violate a provision in Article 1 of the Constitution that prevents the government from suspending habeas corpus — the right of a detained person to challenge the legality of the detention — except in “cases of rebellion or invasion.” The court’s majority, citing Supreme Court and other precedent, held that the right of habeas corpus does not extend to foreign citizens detained outside the United States — the prisoners covered by the new law.
To sum up, they are bringing him here because they want to.
MADNESS!!!!
By trying and convicting this one from Gitmo, BO makes the case to transfer ALL of them here.
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