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red states rule
11-23-2009, 07:32 AM
What a shocker.

Now the left will get their wish: the trial of Pres Bush, VP Cheney, America, and the CIA will start soon in NY - thanks to Obama and AG Holder






NEW YORK — 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.

Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said Sunday 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 deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. will face a civilian federal trial just blocks from the site of the destroyed World Trade Center.

Ali, also known as Ammar al-Baluchi, is a nephew of professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Mohammed, Ali and the others will explain "their assessment of American foreign policy," Fenstermaker said.

"Their assessment is negative," he said.

Fenstermaker met with Ali last week at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. He has not spoken with the others but said the men have discussed the trial among themselves.

Fenstermaker was first quoted in The New York Times in Sunday's editions.

Critics of Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try the men in a New York City civilian courthouse have warned that the trial would provide the defendants with a propaganda platform.

Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the Department of Justice, said Sunday that while the men may attempt to use the trial to express their views, "we have full confidence in the ability of the courts and in particular the federal judge who may preside over the trial to ensure that the proceeding is conducted appropriately and with minimal disruption, as federal courts have done in the past."

Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee questioned Holder for hours about his decision to send the five 9/11 suspects to New York for trial.

Critics of Holder's decision — mostly Republicans — argued the trial will give Mohammed and his co-defendants a world stage to spout hateful rhetoric. Holder said such concerns are misplaced, and any pronouncements by the suspects would only make them look worse.

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20091122/US.Sept.11.Trial.Defendants/

CSM
11-23-2009, 08:11 AM
This is hilarious. The terrorists have already expressed their assessment of US foreign policy by KILLING U.S. citizens! This trial is just another of Obama's apologies to the rest of the world. I suspect that this particular president will soon be dubbed "The Great Groveller".

red states rule
11-23-2009, 08:15 AM
This is hilarious. The terrorists have already expressed their assessment of US foreign policy by KILLING U.S. citizens! This trial is just another of Obama's apologies to the rest of the world. I suspect that this particular president will soon be dubbed "The Great Groveller".

You can count on their lawyers have advised them to only blame the Bush Administration, the CIA, and America BEFORE Jan 20, 2009

The terrorists will NOT bash the Obama Administration that are treating the terrorists like victims

Jeff
11-23-2009, 10:21 AM
The only platform these guys should get is the one they stand on before the rope goes around there neck !

red states rule
11-23-2009, 10:24 AM
The only platform these guys should get is the one they stand on before the rope goes around there neck !

They did agree to plead GUILTY and did ask for the death sentence

Obama and Holder tossed that to the sideleines and decided to bring them NY for this dog and pony show

Sen Schumer got his pork money for the additional "security" needed in NY

What the hell, it is not his money - why should he care?