I wish these guys all the luck with the fair trial they are going to receive in Iran !
Uh, well I wish them luck.
Al Jizz era
An Iranian court has begun closed-door proceedings in the espionage trial of three Americans, two still in custody and one freed on bail.
The trial on Sunday of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, along with that of Sarah Shourd, who was released on $500,000 bail in September, comes 18 months after they were arrested on July 31 2009 near Iran's border with Iraq.
The three, in their late twenties and early thirties, say they were hiking in the mountains of northern Iraq and crossed the unmarked border by mistake.
Iran held them on suspicion of spying, a crime which can carry the death penalty.
Barack Obama, the US president, met Shourd on her return to the United States, an event he called "bittersweet" due to the continued detention of the other two, one of whom is Shourd's fiance.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, suggested last February that the Americans might be released as part of a prisoner swap for Iranians he says were abducted or tricked into going to the United States and jailed without due legal process.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Iran opens trial of US 'hikers'
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Decision Near on Site of Terrorism Trial
Oh Man , I can't wait ! Where are they going to hold the Trial ?
Most likely wherever the Obama Administration decides to hold these trials, it will be very unpopular.
Just think, this could probably all be over with if they just held the trials at Club Gitmo.
But this is America, we just can't do something that easy.
The New York Times
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Wednesday that the Obama administration was “close to a decision” on a trial for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other men accused of planning the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Mr. Holder’s remark to reporters prompted both Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, and Representative Peter T. King, Republican of New York, to repeat their opposition to a 9/11 trial anywhere in New York State.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Plea deal likely for Pantybomber?
That's the rumor - not like we didn't see this coming a mile away from the 'roll over and play dhimmi" Obama justice department...
From the Washington Post:
Public defenders for the Nigerian student are engaged in negotiations that could result in an agreement to share more information and eventually a guilty plea, the sources said.
Negotiations could still collapse before the next scheduled court date, in April, the sources said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. But senior members of the administration's national security apparatus have publicly said that a plea deal is likely, given the virtual life sentence that Abdulmutallab could face on charges of using an airplane as a weapon of mass destruction.
Miriam Siefer, a federal public defender in Detroit, declined to comment on the case this week, as did a Justice Department spokesman in Washington.
What kind of sentence could he receive in exchange? We can look to Shoebomber Richard Reid, who pled guilty and received a life sentence with special restrictions but the Obama Justice Department relaxed those restrictions last year.
Reid was placed under tight restrictions known as Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) that were renewed each year on the ground that his interactions with others posed a "substantial risk" of resulting in death or serious injury to them.
But last June Attorney General Eric Holder allowed the security directives to expire following a 2007 civil lawsuit by Reid in which he claimed that SAMs violated his First Amendment right of free speech and free exercise of religion.
He said the restrictions prevented him from practicing his Sunni Muslim faith or to learn Arabic, order books and magazines, watch television news and speak to anyone except his family and lawyers. He was moved out of isolation in August, but he was subjected to new restrictions that barred him from writing to anyone except his immediate family and lawyer.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
“There is not going to be a trial in New York, I guarantee it"
“There is not going to be a trial in New York, I guarantee it. There is no appetite for the trials in Congress,” Boehner, R-Ohio, said regarding the KSM trial set for NYC.
Boy...I hope he's right.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Security for Khalid Sheik Mohammed's NYC trail to cost over $200 million per year
Why don't we just pump a couple of $0.25 5.56mm bullets into this guy? It'll save a lot of money and grief. NY Daily News
Security for the federal trial of self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four accused cohorts will run $200 million a year, sources told the Daily News.
The NYPD's newly revised projection is almost triple the estimate of $75 million in November, after Attorney General Eric Holder announced he would move the prisoners from Guantanamo to Manhattan for trial.[...]
At a news conference Monday, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) demanded the federal government pay every penny of the security costs.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
El Marco strikes again: 9/11 Families blast Obama's show trial travesty
Must see El Marco:
Check out El Marco's latest photo-essay with details from today's 9/11 Families NYC protest and bonus flashback photos of some potential members of Khalid Sheik Mohammed's future jury pool - just in case you needed reminded why Eric Holder's decision to try the 9/11 scumbags in NYC was such a dumb a** idea.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Rocky Mountain Jihadi may face additional terror charges.
<---- The Rocky Mountain Jihadi in cuffs.
Najibullah Zazi was back in court today and is in "fairly good spirits considering his situation" according to his lawyer. (ahem)
From Bloomberg:
U.S. prosecutors said they may add new criminal charges to the case of Najibullah Zazi, an Afghan accused of planning to detonate a bomb in New York around the anniversary of the 2001 terror attacks.
Zazi, 24, a former airport shuttle-van driver, was engaged in what federal authorities called “a chilling and disturbing sequence of events” which “suggests the defendant was intent on making a bomb and being in New York on 9/11 for purposes of perhaps using such item.”
“It is likely there will be additional charges,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Knox told a federal judge today in a hearing in Brooklyn, New York. “Our anticipation is that we will be seeking a superseding indictment.”
Zazi appeared today before U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie. He was arrested and charged in September with terrorism conspiracy. He pleaded not guilty and remains in custody and faces as long as life in prison if convicted.
Prosecutors said in court papers that Zazi conspired with at least three others. Knox said previously that the evidence against Zazi is “voluminous” and “the conspiracy here is international in scope.”
Zazi remains in solitary confinement in federal jail in Brooklyn. His next court date is slated for February 16.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Our long, national nightmare begins. Gitmo terrorist asks judge to dismiss his case.
What right does this terrorist have to our constitutional protections? ---->
From the NYT:
Lawyers for a terrorism suspect once held at Guantánamo Bay who is now facing prosecution in Manhattan asked a judge on Tuesday to dismiss his case on the ground that his nearly five years in detention denied him his constitutional right to a speedy trial.
The terrorism suspect, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was captured in Pakistan in 2004, held for two years in secret prisons run by the C.I.A., and then moved in 2006 to the naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. During his detention, he says, he was subjected to cruel interrogation techniques and denied a lawyer.
Although Mr. Ghailani faces charges stemming from a terrorist act that predated the Sept. 11 attacks, his speedy trial motion could foreshadow issues that could arise in the prosecution of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the professed organizer of the 9/11 plot, and four other Guantánamo detainees who were recently ordered sent to New York for trial.
“We respectfully submit that this case presents possibly the most unique and egregious example of a speedy trial violation in American jurisprudence to date,” Mr. Ghailani’s lawyers said in a motion that was heavily censored because of its reliance on classified information.
The motion was originally filed several weeks ago with Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, but it was kept almost entirely under seal pending a review by the government. The new version, with many pages blacked out, was made public on Tuesday.
“This motion asks one primary question,” the lawyers, Peter E. Quijano, Michael K. Bachrach and Gregory Cooper, wrote. “Can national security trump an indicted defendant’s constitutional Right to a Speedy Trial? (sic) We respectfully submit that the answer is emphatically and without qualification, ‘No.’ ”
And this is reason #3987 why these scumbags should not be tried in civilian court.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
This is so effed up. Navy Seals face charges for capture of Fallujah ambush mastermind.
<--- The man responsible for this nightmare got a bloody lip and now the brave men that captured him are all facing court martial. This is wrong on so many levels.
From Fox News:
Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And for their trouble, three of the SEALs, members of the Navy's elite commando unit, are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com.
The three have refused non-judicial punishment — called an admiral's mast — and requested a trial by court-martial.
Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named "Objective Amber," told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it.
Now, instead of being lauded for bringing to justice a high-value target, three of the SEAL commandos, all enlisted, face assault charges and have retained lawyers.
Matthew McCabe, a Special Operations Petty Officer Second Class (SO-2), is facing three charges: dereliction of performance of duty for willfully failing to safeguard a detainee, making a false official statement, and assault.
Petty Officer Jonathan Keefe, SO-2, is facing charges of dereliction of performance of duty and making a false official statement.
Petty Officer Julio Huertas, SO-1, faces those same charges and an additional charge of impediment of an investigation.
The three SEALs will be arraigned separately on Dec. 7. Another three SEALs — two officers and an enlisted sailor — have been identified by investigators as witnesses but have not been charged.
Instead of bringing them up on charges they should be giving them all a medal. This is just insane. (For my part, I'd like to buy them all a beer.)
Sunday, November 22, 2009
More on the UK "Religious Leader" arrested on terror charges.
The interesting thing - the "Religious Leader's" name is never mentioned in this article. (Shaykh Asif Farooqui) And neither is his mosque. (Ar-Rahman Masjid) You'd think they were trying to persuade people that Islam is a religion of peace or something. Nothing to see here. Move along, sheeple.
Terror raid protest at police HQ
I don't know - do they look like moderates to you? Me neither. ---->
About 120 people are taking part in a protest outside Greater Manchester Police (GMP) headquarters in support of those arrested in terror raids.
Five men were arrested on Monday on suspicion of inciting terrorism overseas following raids across Greater Manchester and near Heathrow Airport.
Police were given seven days to question the men, aged 21-62.
A force spokesman said it recognised the community had some concerns regarding the ongoing investigation. He said: "We fully recognise people's right to protest and whenever an event is organised GMP will work alongside the organisers to ensure a safe event."
If it's all the same to the protesters, based on past experience Dinah will wait to see what charges are going to be filed before grabbing a sign and taking to the streets to declare his innocence. That goes ditto for signing an online petition.
Related:
UK "Religious Leader" arrested in terror raid. Foreign implications. More arrests to follow.
A follow up on the UK "Religious Leader" arrested on terror charges.
Rocky Mountain Jihadi: Requests US intelligence files
Get used to the idea of leftist lawyers running rough shod through the classified files of our US intelligence agencies.
From Newsday.com:
Lawyers for terror suspect Najibullah Zazi arrested last summer on charges he plotted to kill Americans with homemade bombs, want prosecutors to search the files of U.S. intelligence agencies to see if there is information which could help the defense.
In a filing in Brooklyn federal court, defense attorney Michael J. Dowling of Denver, said that while the case is covered by special procedures for classified information, prosecutors still have an obligation to contact intelligence agencies for such information.
Dowling told Newsday he was referring to the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency and other government units.
Such requests for exculpatory information are routine in criminal cases. In Zazi's case, the information being sought relates to witnesses or potential witnesses, including financial data and information about their drug abuse and mental illness, according to the filing.
But the fact prosecutors are invoking the classified information procedures act to protect evidence could complicate the way any secret information is used in the case.
9/11 plotters to plead not guilty in order to "air their criticisms of US foreign policy".
We told you this was going to happen...
From Breitbart:
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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.
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.
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 disrupton, as federal courts have done in the past."
You mean like this case?
Aafia Siddiqui aka The Grey Lady of al Qaeda's latest stunt.
Looks like there's been more court room shenanigans from al Qaeda's gun moll. Following her al Qaeda training manual to a tee, she continues to disrupt her trial at every turn. Just imagine what it's going to be like when KSM hits town: From the AP:
A U.S.-trained scientist accused of shooting at FBI agents and helping al-Qaida vowed Thursday to boycott her January trial.
Aafia Siddiqui interrupted lawyers at her pretrial hearing in U.S. District Court in Manhattan to announce that she did not plan to participate in her trial, scheduled for Jan. 19.
"I am boycotting this trial," she said. "I am innocent of all the charges and I can prove it, but I will not do it in this court."
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Before he (Judge Berman) ruled on the request, Siddiqui said visits by her lawyers were "torture for me" and it was a waste of money for lawyers to go to Afghanistan to interview witnesses because she was not participating in the trial.
"I'm not dealing with them anymore," Siddiqui said of her lawyers. "They're just people coming to my door and talking, talking, talking."
During a break, Siddiqui was led out of the courtroom by U.S. marshals when she would not stop talking loudly. "Take me out," she said. "I'm not coming back."
And speaking of court room shenanigans - check out the stunts the motions her defense team put forward and then just imagine all the legal machinations and maneuvering that will toccur at the KSM trial. It's going to be a freaking zoo: From Dawn.com:
The defence argued that it was against the Geneva conventions to try Dr. Aafia Siddiqui for attempted murder in the US when the crime was allegedly committed in Afghanistan.
Siddiqui on her part protested the proceedings and was sent to another room to watch the proceedings on a closed circuit TV.
In another motion, the defence asked the court to throw out the first count of the indictment against Dr. Siddiqui on technical grounds but that motion was also dismissed
More posts detailing The Grey Lady of al Qaeda's courtroom antics can be found here.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
North Korea puts two U.S. journalists on trial
If no one intervenes , Lee and Ling , will be facing 10 years of hard labor !
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea put two U.S. journalists on trial on Thursday on charges of illegally entering the state with "hostile intent," in a case that could worsen tension with Washington after Pyongyang's nuclear test last week.
The journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling of the U.S. media outlet Current TV, were arrested in March near the border between China and North Korea while working on a story. The TV network was co-founded by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.
North Korea's KCNA news agency said in a one-sentence dispatch that the trial would begin at 2:00 a.m. EDT (3 p.m. local time) at one of the country's highest courts.
Experts say the pair could face a sentence of 10 years or more of hard labor in the reclusive state. They add a guilty verdict is almost certain in a North Korean justice system that protects the unquestioned rule of leader Kim Jong-il.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
North Korea to put 2 US journalists on trial
North Korea has announced that it put US journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling on trial on June 4th. North Korea accuses the journalists of illegally entering the country with "hostile" intenet. Reuters
SEOUL, May 14 (Reuters) - North Korea said on Thursday it would put two U.S. journalists it arrested in March on trial on June 4, ratcheting up tension with Washington after a rocket launch and a threat to conduct a nuclear test.
Analysts said the reclusive North sees the two reporters as bargaining chips to try to win concessions out of the government of U.S. President Barack Obama, which is pressing Pyongyang to return to stalled nuclear disarmament talks. [ID:nT37605]
Euna Lee and Laura Ling, of U.S. media outlet Current TV, were arrested along the North Korea-China border. They were accused of illegally entering North Korea with "hostile" intent and Pyongyang has said they face criminal charges.
"The Central Court of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) decided to try the American journalists on June 4 according to the indictment of the competent organ," the official KCNA news agency said in a one-sentence dispatch.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
French Court Delays Trial for Ramadam
The trial date for 7 men accused of armed was due to start on September 16th. But the trial has been delay for one of the suscepts off till January because of Ramadam. His lawyer argued that the suscept would be too weak to properly defend himself.BBC
All of a sudden this guy is a devout muslim and before he was out making armed robberies. Wait, so I guess he was a devout muslim all along
The trial of seven men for armed robbery was due to start on 16 September in Rennes.
But last week the court agreed to a request from a lawyer for one of the accused to put it off until January.
In his letter asking for the delay, the lawyer noted that if the trial were to start now, it would fall in the Muslim month of Ramadan.
His client, a Muslim, would have been fasting for two weeks and thus, he said, be in no position to defend himself properly.
He would be physically weakened and too tired to follow the arguments as he should.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Guantanamo trial views graphic 9/11 video!
Well it's about Damn Time! It would be absolutely wonderful to sit in this court room and watch this punk and his attorneys Squirm ! I hope they get the same results as they did for most of the SS ,during the Nuremburg trials from WWll!
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GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Prosecutors in the trial of Osama bin Laden's driver unveiled a graphic video on Monday of the September 11 attacks and other al Qaeda operations that is likely to play a repeated role in pending war crimes cases.
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The video is entitled "The Al Qaeda Plan," an echo of "The Nazi Plan" made by Oscar-winning director George Stevens as evidence in the Nuremberg war crimes trials of German leaders after World War II.
"Oh my God" was heard repeatedly as crowds watched the twin towers of the World Trade center collapse on September 11, 2001, in a vivid highlight of the movie shown over defense objections at the terrorism conspiracy trial of Salim Hamdan.
The six-member panel that will decide Hamdan's fate also saw footage of charred bodies stripped of flesh in the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa and the body of a U.S. soldier dragged through the streets in Somalia in 2003.
Control tower conversations with one of the doomed September 11 planes were also included.
"The Al Qaeda Plan" was made for $25,000 by terrorism consultant Evan Kohlmann for the Office of Military Commissions, which is conducting the trials of terrorism suspects at Guantanamo. Its 90 minutes of video clips depict the history of al Qaeda from its formation in 1988 through the September 11 attacks.
The commission's lead prosecutor, Col. Lawrence Morris, said the tape would be used in other trials but no decision had been made whether to use it in the trial of accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Hamdan's attorneys objected that the footage would prejudice the jury. "They're trying to terrorize the members," defense attorney Charles Swift told the court.
But prosecutors said the video helped illustrate the goals of al Qaeda training and ideology. "It is a very important part of the prosecution's case," said prosecutor Clayton Trivett.
Commission Judge Keith Allred approved the video, after first saying it would serve more to prejudice the case than to prove a point. "The planes crashing into the towers and the people screaming doesn't prove anything," he said.
A pivotal point of contention is the significance of Hamdan's role in al Qaeda. The Yemeni native was caught in November 2001 with two surface-to-air missiles in his car.
Defense attorneys say he was a lowly driver, but the prosecution has sought to portray him as a trusted bodyguard who helped bin Laden evade capture and stay alive.
The two sides have also skirmished over an expert's testimony on the laws of war. With Hamdan being tried as a war criminal under a 2006 U.S. law, the prosecution is seeking to show the United States was in a continuing armed conflict with al Qaeda well before the September 11 attacks.
Hamdan's attorneys have sought to demonstrate that the battle with al Qaeda did not reach the state of armed conflict until the September 11 attacks, which could make it harder for the prosecution to prove Hamdan's actions count as a war crime.
Separately on Monday, the Pentagon announced it had filed charges against another detainee at Guantanamo and released three from the detention center.
The Pentagon said Abdul Ghani was accused of attempted murder, material support for terrorism and conspiracy over accusations he fired rockets and planted bombs aimed at U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan in 2001 and 2002, and tried to kill an Afghani soldier in 2002.
The Pentagon said it had released three detainees -- one to Afghanistan, one to the United Arab Emirates and one to Qatar. It said more than 65 Guantanamo detainees are eligible for transfer or release subject to talks on where they will go.
