Sunday, November 22, 2009
It has begun: Lawyer: 9/11 defendants want platform for views
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 Sunday.
Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said 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...
Y'think? And now we get the spectacle of a trial, supposedly to showcase "our system" on the international stage, whose outcome and sentence is pre-determined, where the defendants will need to be muzzled to prevent them from using the stage for their own purposes, under circumstances that you or I would be horrified at the prospects of going through (the massive power of the highest levels of the Federal Government arrayed against us in a bizarre process only a specialist can understand) if we could even relate to it in the first place (which we can't because we're not mass murdering terrorists). What's the point of the exercise? Showtime!
[h/t: Graham]
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First up in the docket for the defense? The Zionist entity, of course, and the slavish, "unjust" support of its infidel patron, Uncle Sam. Mark my words, you heard it here first. Thanks, Hussein Obama, if I didn't know any better, I'd almost think this was all intentional.
This is going to put Islamofascism, Wahabbism, saudi arabia, Islamoimperialism, Islamosupremecy, Islamofascist crimes against humanity on trial.
As long as Islamofascisms complete enemies list is detailed, (Jews and Israel being just a tip of the iceberg), this is going to be a interesting trial.
Circus time instead of working on security and jobs. Way to go Obama/Holder. Two Dufuses (Dufi?) for sure.
In the words of a great mentor of Obama for 20 years.
America's chickens coming home to roost.
I sense that Obama has sympathy for the perpetrators of 9/11. They have legitimate greivances in his mind, like the ming of Jerimiah "God Damn America" Wright.
America elected Obama to self flagellate itself according to Western New Leftist paradigms.
Enjoy.