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Administration halts prosecution of alleged USS Cole bomber
Washington Compost ^ | 8/27/10 | Peter Finn

Posted on 08/27/2010 6:16:50 AM PDT by teddyballgame

The Obama administration has shelved the planned prosecution of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged coordinator of the Oct. 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, according to a court filing.

The decision at least temporarily scuttles what was supposed to be the signature trial of a major al-Qaeda figure under a reformed system of military commissions. And it comes practically on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the attack, which killed 17 sailors and wounded dozens when a boat packed with explosives ripped a hole in the side of the warship in the port of Aden.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 911forgotten; activistcourts; alnashiri; antiamericanism; cole; coleforgotten; cultureofocorruption; dnconjihad; enemydomestic; imamobama; injusticedepartment; jihad; obamalegacy; obamaonjihad; obamavsamerica; obamunism; proislamist; proterrorist; usscole; usscolebomber; waronterror
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To: DrC
I’m starting to wonder whether Obama isn’t a Top Secret Karl Rove plant, put in place to win the 2008 election and then to so thoroughly botch the job of POTUS that Americans would flock back to the Republican Party for generations to come.

I don't think even Karl Rove is bastard of that magnificence.

21 posted on 08/27/2010 6:30:53 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Menehune56

Yeah, it’s not that Obama is “out of touch” with the mainstream or “tone deaf”, he’s a hard-left liberal with communist tendancies who’d rather defend a guilty muslim than protect the country he governs.


22 posted on 08/27/2010 6:33:06 AM PDT by teddyballgame
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To: teddyballgame

**** you, Sheik Obama.


23 posted on 08/27/2010 6:33:47 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (For the first time in half a century, there is no former KKK member in the US Senate.)
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To: teddyballgame

Ft. Sumter


24 posted on 08/27/2010 6:36:04 AM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: squarebarb

“You know, I think he and Holder are just sticking their thumbs in our eye for as long as they can, as much as they can, before they’re thrown out.”

I tend to agree with this. I also believe that God is allowing the “shaking up” of this nation to bring people back to HIM.


25 posted on 08/27/2010 6:36:47 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: Fresh Wind

FUBO!!!


26 posted on 08/27/2010 6:38:22 AM PDT by unkus
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To: teddyballgame
Kick the can down the road

So did the previous administration, which didn't have any trouble overseeing the rapid execution of Timothy McVeigh.


27 posted on 08/27/2010 6:39:00 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: unkus

triple FUBO!
I hope he chokes on his Marthas Vinyard lobster!


28 posted on 08/27/2010 6:42:46 AM PDT by Merlinator (Take them all down...one czar at a time FUBO)
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To: teddyballgame
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29 posted on 08/27/2010 6:43:07 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 580 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Diogenesis

30 posted on 08/27/2010 6:43:11 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Lt. Col. Ralph Peters: Obama is the dog who caught the fire truck!)
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To: teddyballgame

0bama is a traitor, and he squats to pee.


31 posted on 08/27/2010 6:46:15 AM PDT by mkjessup ("Wait by the river and your enemies will float by" - old Japanese proverb, and I'm waitin'.)
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To: battlecry; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; Liz
No, they just need all the DoJ resources to go after Arizona and Sheriff Joe.

Which nation does "our" government represent?

32 posted on 08/27/2010 6:48:52 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Lt. Col. Ralph Peters: Obama is the dog who caught the fire truck!)
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To: battlecry
No, they just need all the DoJ resources to go after Arizona and Sheriff Joe.

Who they have turned in to the UN Human Rights Commission. More evidence 0bama is an enemy of this Nation.

33 posted on 08/27/2010 6:49:05 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: teddyballgame
Nashiri, 45, was captured in the United Arab Emirates in November 2002, and immediately placed in CIA custody. He was among three detainees held by the agency who was water-boarded

That explains it.

The left would flee completely from Obama if his admin indicted this guy. They would say that his admissions were made "under torture" even though they have other evidence linking him to the crime.

34 posted on 08/27/2010 6:51:04 AM PDT by what's up
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To: Hodar

When it says “administration” it means Obama. He is a dictator and no one makes decisions without consulting the great one.
It’s obvious where his heart lies, and it’s not with freedom-loving normal people.


35 posted on 08/27/2010 6:53:24 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Annoying liberals is my goal. I will not be silenced.)
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To: teddyballgame
They need all of their prosecutorial resources to sue Arizona, Sherrif Joe, and fight for gay marriage.
36 posted on 08/27/2010 6:54:33 AM PDT by Never on my watch (The Obama Administration - an outrage a day)
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To: teddyballgame
whiskey tango foxtrot
37 posted on 08/27/2010 7:03:18 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Obama suffers from decision-deficit disorder." Oliver North 6/25/10)
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To: TomGuy
"So did the previous administration,"

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this - but, I'll point out that the previous administration didn't "kick the can down the road" with respect to al-Nashin. They captured him in 2002, and for 6 years he was a valuable intelligence asset, that is after they water-boarded him. Before that, he wasn't very helpful at all.

In November or December of 2008, the Bush administration moved forward with al-Nashin's military commission - remember, this was primarily delayed due to all the legal challenges to the commissions which necessitated Congressional action. Two months later, in early Feb - just a week or two into Obama's REGIME - the government withdrew all charges.

This is the SECOND time Obama has stopped prosecution using the military commission for al-Nashin.

38 posted on 08/27/2010 7:05:25 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: ClearCase_guy
Obama is very popular with the a Muslims.

....there....fixed it.

39 posted on 08/27/2010 7:06:51 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: DrC
Some have speculated Obama wants a Republican Congress elected in 2010 so he has something to run against in 2012.

Actually, that might give him the best of all possible worlds. Would Clinton have been reelected if the economy hadn't gotten so much better -- because of the Republican Congress from 1994? With a Republican Congress, Obama could count on at least stopping the downslide in the economy, and he'd still have the Republicans to blame. Who now remembers (outside of FR) that Clinton's economy was in the doldrums until the Republican takeover? Who noticed at the time? Not the MSM, for sure!

40 posted on 08/27/2010 7:06:51 AM PDT by maryz
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