Posted on 06/09/2009 2:45:38 PM PDT by RatherBiased.com
NEW YORK — Under heavy guard, a Guantanamo Bay detainee walked into a civilian U.S. courtroom for the first time Tuesday, underscoring the Obama administration's determination to close the Cuban prison and hold trials here despite Republican alarms about bringing terror suspects to America.
Ahmed Ghailani, a Tanzanian accused in two American Embassy bombings a decade ago, pleaded not guilty — in English — in a brief but historic federal court hearing that transported him from open-ended military detention to the civilian criminal justice system.
President Barack Obama has said keeping Ghailani from coming to the United States "would prevent his trial and conviction." Taking a drastically different stance, House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio labeled Tuesday's move "the first step in the Democrats' plan to import terrorists into America."
Ghailani, accused of being a bomb-maker, document forger and aide to Osama bin Laden, was brought to New York to await trial in connection with al-Qaida bombings that killed 224 people — including 12 Americans — at the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998.
U.S. marshals took custody of Ghailani from his military jailers and transferred him to a federal lockup in lower Manhattan that currently holds financial swindler Bernard Madoff, and once held mob scion John "Junior" Gotti and blind terror leader Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman.
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Oops, please change headline to: First Gitmo inmate in US court pleads not guilty
The list, ping
Of course he is going to plead not guilty. They will feel sorry for him, release him, and give him full benefits of a citizen, if not making him one to make up for his “false imprisonment.” Did I mention welfare payments, bringing his family over, and further restitution.
Honest, your honor! I was just out riding my bike over to my sick grandmother’s house to bring her medicine when the Americans snatched me! Seriously!
Soon the Liberals will be screaming for the judge to allow him bail. I am sure the ACLU is taking that case right now.
All the publicity that a terrorist organization could ever possibly want .. brought to you by the best friend they ever had .... the dumocrats.
and was the prisoner read the Miranda warning before he was arrested?
No? Well, then all charges are dropped and the prisoner will be released.
Enjoy your life in America, a$$hole!
Didn’t I hear someone promise that the Gitmo detainees would not be brought here?
It’s so hard to remember, things change so.
remember, everything Obama says has an expiration date attached.
He never lies; the truth CHANGEs. HOPE you understand.
Obama is destroying America from within, one step at a time. He is weakening the foundation of our society, destroying our economy, and compromising our national security. He is truly the enemy from within.
This means big money for the lawyers, which is all the Democrats really care about.
I had a friend in one of those bombings...he should die and rot, let the danged worms eat his carcass the punk little jerk.
I dunno. Bernie Madoff pleaded guilty to everything he was charged with and he had a lawyer. $900/hour for that?
Can't blame Jihad Johnny Muhammed for milking the system. I always found it amusing when sheeple blame defendants for pleading "not guilty" at an arraignment when the court of public opinion and common sense says they were guilty.
Nobody, even with a $39k per year public defender would plead guilty at an arraignment.
Worse case scenario, you go to trial, cost tax payers thousands or millions you would end up with the same punishment....islamofasicsts will be put to a fate worse than death...forced to watch gay "Will and Grace" re-runs on a continuous loop and eat nothing but greasy pork from one of America's fine dining establishments for the rest of your life.
There... fixed it. ;-)
There... fixed it. ;-)
exactly.
LOL, yet so true...
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