Posted on 12/11/2020 11:30:10 AM PST by Enlightened1
A former Osama bin Laden henchman convicted in two deadly 1998 bombings is free and living in the UK this week after being released early — thanks to a Manhattan federal judge who agreed the terrorist was way too obese to survive the coronavirus behind bars.
Adel Abdel Bary, 60, had spent 21 years in a New Jersey prison for his role in the 1998 al Qaeda bombings of two US embassies in Africa that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.
“Defendant’s obesity and somewhat advanced age make COVID-19 significantly more risky to him than to the average person,” US District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan wrote in granting the release.
Bary had been set to be freed on Oct. 28, but his attorneys asked that he be let out sooner, citing their client’s age, girth and asthma.
“Mr. Bary’s continued incarceration now significantly increases his risk of infection, which could wreak disastrous health outcomes,” his lawyer wrote in court documents.
While prosecutors didn’t agree that Bary’s age made him more at risk to catch COVID-19, they did concede his body mass index of 36 did.
“The defendant’s obesity is an extraordinary and compelling reason that could justify a reduction of his sentence in light of the current pandemic,” they wrote.
The 230-pound terrorist was freed from prison Oct. 9 and from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on Wednesday, when he was handed over to UK officials.
His return to the UK couldn’t be blocked because he was granted asylum there in 1997 — before being arrested in 1999 and extradited to the US to stand trial in 2012.
He had been sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2015 but received credit for the years he spent behind bars in Britain while fighting extradition.
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I’d like to take a shot (pun) to see if he is so fat he could not be punctured by a 300 winny.
[[Bary had been set to be freed on Oct. 28,]]
WHY?????????
He should have got the death penalty- or at least 20 consecutive life sentences!
If he’s that big, just take him to the beach, shove a stick of dynamite up his bum and blow him up like they used to do with beached whales.
“If that doesn’t work, cut him in half.”
ROTFLMAO!!!
“...This is why I do not support life as a penalty where the
death penalty should have been called for....”
Exactly. Plus, we don’t have to feed and care for the evil SOBs for the rest of their miserable lives.
See Thomas Capano, see OJ...
Maybe they should let a couple of good old boys take some air out of him...
[[He had been sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2015 but received]]
WOW- he only got apprx 10 years per 100 people killed?
Alternatively:
1. Put him under house arrest in the home of that judge.
2. Release him from custody and let the judge complete the mass murdering jihadist's sentence.
So, basically, he's being released after serving 21 years of a 25 year sentence?
And the officers at these institutions don’t have to dodge
feces and urine hurled at them.
Cremation tends to shrink people down. Let’s cremate him.
Too bad for Hermann Goering that this judge was not at Nuremberg.
Praying that someone else will put him right back behind bars immediately!
News report on a case where they dynamited a whale carcass. I wouldn't want to be near a site where they did this to a whale OR an obese terrorist.
No kidding, I expected him to be like 700 pounds, so big that they’d need a tow truck to haul him around.
What a joke.
A libtard sitting on the bench. Thanks BJ Clinton.
This is a poorly written story.
The guy served his time (21 years + 4 years previously served). He was set to be released Oct 28. They released him 3 weeks early on Oct 9.
It was stupid to release him even a day early for covid-19 related nonsense but the guy essentially did his time.
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