Posted on 11/22/2009 8:48:47 AM PST by kristinn
A lawyer for one of the five men facing trial for the Sept. 11 attacks says the men plan to plead not guilty and use the trial venue to express their political views.
Attorney Scott Fenstermaker said his client Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali and the others will not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but will tell the jury "why they did it."
He said that the men will explain "their assessment of American foreign policy."
Fenstermaker met with Ali last week at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He has not spoken with the others but said the men have discussed the trial among themselves.
The Justice Department announced earlier this month that the men would face a civilian federal trial in a New York City courthouse. The department did not immediately respond to a call seeking comment.
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the Zer0 must go...
What kind of lawyer is this? Why they did it is irrelevant to the determination of guilt (unless, of course, they are arguing insanity of self-defense - not the case here). Any decent judge would rule it irrelevant. The issue at trial is if they did it, which they admit to. Get on to the penalty phase.
Wha? You mean extremist islam will try to use this opportunity to spread extemist islam. How incredibly predictable!
It will provide a platform and stage for vile terrorists to spout their message that will be covered by the press and glorified by other terrorist organizations and enemies, thereby further emboldening them.
Brought to you in whole by Barack Hussein Obama, the President of the United States and...
They are going to do EXACTLY what all the conservatives said they would do.
Ashcroft says that Holder has no authority to try them. Is there anyone who can sue the Justice Dept to stop them from bringing the trial to the US?
This will be THE BEST MARKETING and RECRUITING EVENT in the history of modern Jihad.
It will be like the bookend to 9/11 and it all comes care of 0bama!
The IDIOT who got elected screaming that the War on Terror was THE WAY AQ was RECRUITING recruiting trier suicide killers and he goes and does THIS?!!!
Barry is the BEST RECRUITING Saudi MONEY CAN BUY!!!!
And this is the reason the trial is being held in NYC. It’s what 0 (and Holder) knew and wanted all along - to punish America and the Bush years, and to apologize to other countries, especially muslims, for political and popular appeal. Change has come to mean anything that splits America - and change at any cost.
A civilian trial to platform the views of the worst of the worst war prisoners is more important to this ‘administration’ than the heart wrenching feelings of the thousands of relatives and friends of the 911 victims - the country be damned.
You should direct their attention to the Yuri Beremov (Tomas Schuman) vids on Youtube. After the fall of Capitalism and the institution of a Commie govt, all “radicals” who speak too loudly will be taken quietly in the night and shot in some remote countryside. Academics, Union heads, environmentalists, etc. Doesnt matter which brand of eco-fascism they endorse..speak too loudly after the Commies have taken over the country/military and it is off with the head. This is how the KGB did it. They burned even those symphathetic with their views (who however deviated from the status quo)
This is how Rahm would do it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kQMgMJYNUY
...and here's a blueprint/operator's manual for Zer0's henchmen...
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
We (conservatives), Will already have been imprisoned, by then.
BTTT
Wishful thinking, I'm afraid.
Not until the MSM is destroyed will mainstream America realize what IT is allowing Obama to do to our sovereign constitutional republic.
Let’s not forget that Holder is investigating the CIA interrogators as well.
Let’s not forget that Holder is investigating the CIA interrogators as well.
Their peers?
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