I knew this was coming but I didn't know how sick it would make me feel when it did.
This is a travesty and represents a huge moral defeat for our country. I predict this decision will go down in history as the worst Presidential decision ever made.
If (or should I say when?) another terror attack occurs in NYC as a result of conducting this show trial there - well, Barack Obama - the blood of those citizens will be on your hands.
JihadWatch says it all:
President Barack Obama said the September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be put on trial in New York City.
Speaking in Tokyo, Mr Obama said Mohammed, the self-proclaimed organiser of the al-Qaeda terrorist plot that killed almost 3,000 people in 2001, would face "exacting" US justice. (ed. note: Obama makes the announcement in JAPAN?)
Bringing such notorious suspects to US soil to face trial would be a key step in Mr Obama's plan to close the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay.
Mr Obama initially planned to close the centre at the US naval base on Cuba by Jan 22 next year, but his administration is no longer expected to meet that deadline.
It is also a major legal and political test of Mr Obama's overall approach to terrorism. If the case suffers legal setbacks, the administration will face second-guessing from those who never wanted it in a civilian courtroom.
Indeed.
The New York case may force the court system to confront a host of difficult legal issues surrounding counter-terrorism programmes begun after the 2001 attacks, including the harsh interrogation techniques once used on some of the suspects while in CIA custody. The most severe method - waterboarding, or simulated drowning - was used on Mohammed 183 times in 2003, before the practice was banned....
It's up to you, New York, New York!
3 comments:
Well, it might not be a very smart decision but if the Guantanamo is to be closed, the situation must be solved somehow. But whoever would be among the jurors, I hope the death sentence for Mohammed will be the result of their work, because he deserves nothing better. Lorne
Well Lorne, IMO closing Gitmo is a mistake too.
Having said that, it also occurs to me that military tribunals DO exist for a reason.
With all the pre trial motions and bull shit that the moonbat defense lawyers are going to throw at the prosecution it will be 10 years before these SOB's step foot in the courtroom.
And I wish I shared your optimism about them getting the death penalty. All it takes is one anti-death penalty juror to hang that up and you know the streets of NYC are crawling with anti death penalty advocates.
P.S. I appreciate your commentary.
Sure, I realize the death penalty would be a sweet happy-end in this case, because I'm very afraid that due to the inadmissible evidence from the Guantanamo waterboarding investigation, he also might acquitted on the grounds of a reasonable doubt and then I don't know what could be done. But I suppose, because of the principle "non bis in idem" everything would be lost. And also as Rudy Guiliani said, he would be arrested again, because the US administration would say, he is a terrorist. I'm really curious, how this whole thing will turn out. Lorne
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