Posted on 11/22/2009 2:45:11 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said today.
Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but "would explain what happened and why they did it."
The U.S. Justice Department announced earlier this month that Ali and four other men accused of murdering nearly 3,000 people in the nation's deadliest terrorist attack will face a civilian federal trial just blocks from the World Trade Center site.
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The list, ping
From Holder's testimony it appears this supposedly smart bunch has thought through nothing, like what procedure rules apply? Even if these people plead guilty to chat up jihad, they could still get off on some technicality like failure to Mirandize. And what if a judge throws out the indictment because the comments President Zero and his equally moronic A.G. made prejudiced the jury pool?
Suppose they instead use the rules of the military tribunals. How will these geniuses explain why they couldn't try this case before a military tribunal but had to use the tribunal rules? Even then, what will they do if some jihadi or some Israel hating liberal lies their way onto the jury and hangs the jury?
That's Obama's plan isn't it? Hasn't that been Obama's plan all along?
This is like letting the Nazis use the Nuremberg trials to explain why they did it.
Certainly, more is going on here than upholding the "rule of law".
Lions laying down with lambs, cats and dogs getting along...
Glad to see that AP picked this story up and titled it the way it is.
I thought Newsweak already did that when America hater Fareed Zakaria wrote "Why they hate us".
Where is the politician, either Republican or Democrat, who will stand up and call for the dismissal of Eric Holder?
There must be someone out there who wants to be president.
He’ll have my vote. Or she. I’m easy.
He will come to regret his stupidiy.
Amin Al Husseini seen inspecting his Hanzar Division made up exclusively of Muslims, mostly from the Crotia/Bosnia/Serbia region. They actively lead the genocide against Serbs, Serbian Jews and Gypsies.
Amin Al Husseini meets with Adolf Hitler in November 1942, weeks before the decision to implement the Final Solution which sent Europe's Jews to the gas chamber. The Third Reich provided Amin Al Husseini with a salary and appointed him Head of the Hanzar SS Division. The Hanzar Division was made of Nazi Muslims and implemented the genocide of 250,000 Serbs, Gypsies and Jews during WWII.
Amin Al Husseini shown here on a Nazi poster recruiting fellow Muslims to join Hitler in the fight against the West and the Jews. His disciples today include Yasser Arafat, Saddam Hussein and the leaders of Hamas, Al Qeida and Islamic Jihad.
Amin Al Husseini, future President of the World Islamic Congress (1961) and founding father of the Arab League (1944) inspects his Muslim Nazi troops, the Hanzar Division. Amin Al Husseini making the traditional nazi salute.
Yasser Arafat became a disciple of Amin Al Husseini since the age of 17. Here: recent picture of Palestinian soldiers under the leadership of Arafat making the traditional Nazi salute.
Moving the trial to NY = mistrial.
This will be the first trial where the prosecution and defense try to prove it was Bush’s fault.
Barack Obama’s and Eric Holder’s trial decision exhibits consequences of Supreme Court malpractice. Notwithstanding catastrophic dangers justices Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Ruth Ginsburg, Steven Breyer, and John Stevens eviscerated the political departments’ Constitutional authority regarding defense.
Legislative and Executive branches hold all defense powers. Congress has power to declare war. The President, as Commander in Chief, directs military operations, including armed force application, intelligence gathering, and disposition of captured enemies. These branches, most sensitive to citizen accountability, receive tasking for the most momentous issue concerning national viability.
The Constitution places no defense powers within the unelected Judiciary. Yet the justices disabled national defense in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld by fabricating an association of terrorists with Common Article Three of Geneva Conventions. False because terrorists do participate in international armed conflict, lack pacific character, and do not meet definitions for legitimate armed forces.
These justices also improperly intruded with Bonemediene vs. Bush. They rejected guidelines developed from Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld and applied Habeas Corpus to enemy aliens contravening U.S. practice, Common Law, and Constitution.
These justices perpetrated judicial malpractice. Terrorists became citizens entering a legal conduit and backdoor into our society where their present and prospective unsurpassed butchery was equated to a civil murder. The judicial actions compare to surgical malpractice leaving a festering rag inside a body cavity. As those doctors should forfeit practice of medicine, these justices by impeachment should forfeit practice of law.
Now politicians shelter within these rulings and indulge personal moral orthodoxies forcing America into harm’s way.
Are they going for jury nullification?
Obama will be a witness for the defense.
I thought that KSM and some of these other clowns were going to represent themselves. Will they be tried separately?
Newsweek magazine. Didn’t they run a cover that the resession was over.
Huh!
is there a line yet on a terrorist event during the trial???
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