Posted on 05/04/2011 9:29:16 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
The criminal case against Osama bin Laden, which has rumbled through the New York courts for the past 13 years in his absence, is set to be closed following his assassination.
Prosecutors representing the US government are expected to file papers this week asking a judge to dismiss the case against bin Laden, the late leader of al-Qaeda, due to the death of the main defendant.
The first indictment against bin Laden was filed in secret at a federal-district court in Manhattan on June 10, 1998, before most of his most renowned acts of terrorism.
It was eight pages long, and stated that the then-41-year-old should be convicted of conspiring to attack United States defence installations throughout the 1990s.
Over the following years, the case grew with every outrage al-Qaeda perpetrated, with dozens of bin Laden's subordinates added to the list said by prosecutors to have been responsible.
Just two months after the first indictment, the US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, were bombed by al-Qaeda agents, killing more than 200 and wounding hundreds more.
The case against bin Laden was made into a grand jury indictment, and was then released. He was also listed under pseudonyms, including "Abu Abdallah" "Mujahid Shaykh" and "Qa Qa".
Bin Laden and his then-unknown allies "unlawfully, wilfully and knowingly combined, conspired, confederated and agreed together" to "injure and destroy" US facilities, it said.
In October 2000, the USS Cole, a Navy destroyer, was attacked by two suicide bombers while in the port of Amen, Yemen. Seventeen US sailors
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Is it customary to close cases after an alleged death? We still don't have a body.
Osama Bin Laden is gone but we are still stuck with Obama Bin Golfin
The criminal case against Osama bin Laden, which has rumbled through the New York courts for the past 13 years in his absence, is set to be closed following his assassination.
(D’uh!)
assassination?
If the fed can show FBI’s most wanted dead or alive, they can most certainly show the World’s most wanted dead or alive.
This Administration is full of crap.
They are dropping the charges?
Good. Maybe he will come out of hiding.
And Barak bin Hussein abu Obama al Kenyata, the pardoner.
yitbos
I don’t see why the trial can’t proceed anyway - a guilty verdict means the gubment can assay the Bin Ladin estate for costs, yes?
Must prove he’s dead before the case can be dropped. No?
Instead the prosecutors in NY will be charging our SEALs with failure to read OBL with his Miranda Rights.
assassination? Wrong, it was a firefight in a war that OBL started. Seals ended it - the right way. (see my tagline)
With all the confusion stories being floated within and without the regime, my fear is that 0bambi will wind up throwing the members of Seal Team 6 under the bus and court martial them. That, I fear would trigger a military coup.
Why would the city stop the case? Just amend it to go after the bin Laden fortune. The money didn’t go away, just the check writer.
I think I realize why the photos of bin Laden’s death aren’t released.
He needs time to edit Chuck Norris out of them (/sarc).
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