Posted on 11/17/2010 8:52:19 PM PST by Nachum
The first Guantanamo detainee to face a civilian trial was acquitted Wednesday of most charges he helped unleash death and destruction on two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998 - an opening salvo in al Qaeda's campaign to kill Americans.
A federal jury convicted Ahmed Ghailani of one count of conspiracy and acquitted him of all other counts, including murder and murder conspiracy, in the embassy bombings. The anonymous federal jury deliberated over seven days, with a juror writing a note to the judge saying she felt threatened by other jurors.
Ghailani faces a statutory minimum of 20 years in prison but could also receive a life sentence, CBS News producer Phil Hirschkorn reports. U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan has scheduled sentencing for Jan. 25, 2011.
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F’n civilian jury bleeding heart, “caped crusaders”. They’re “sending a message” to America, “STOP SCREWING WITH OUR TERRORIST PALS! WE THINK THEY ARE CUTE!”
Why bother to have a trial? It is a fact that Obama has no problem with drone attacks that kill terrorists (and associated civilians) without a trial. Next time, just put a bunch of the Gitmo inmates in a rubber raft in the Caribbean and have Obama blow them out of the water.
The jury really screwed Obama and Holder on this case, big time.
Their actual plan was that he be found innocent on all charges.
I remember Holder the magnificent confidently declaring that KSM would be found guilty in a civilian trial as if it was already bought. How stoopid do the Bobbsy Twins look now?
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