Five Guantanamo Bay detainees alleged to have masterminded the September 11 attacks are to be taken to the United States to stand trial in a civilian court in New York, an Obama Administration official said today.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged accomplices will be brought on to US soil for trial as part of President Obama’s pledge to close down the detention centre in Cuba.
The Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to officially announce the decision today.
Mr Obama initially planned to close Guantanamo by January 22 next year but the Administration is no longer expected to meet that deadline
New York trial for alleged 9/11 mastermind - Times Online
Interesting, they will be tried under a civilian court, I wonder if evidence obtained through questionable means will be dismissed
This trial will probably last years.
Why? Their right to a speedy trial was violated. Case closed.
Can you imagine the backlash if this happens?
What would be interesting is the military's response. How will they feel if these turds were to be released.Can you imagine the backlash if this happens?
I can foresee a million armed man march on Washington.
(I realize this is a non-PC post..... I do not sanction the exclusion of women from this action)
Laila;1058362598....Interesting said:FYI:
[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusionary_rule]Exclusionary rule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]
I can't see for the life of me why it wouldn't, due to the fact that once they set foot on U.S. soil they will be afforded full Constitutional protections then it is clear that their right to a speedy trial was in fact violated and thus the indictments must be dismissed.
The more I think of this - the absurdity, the outcry it will cause, the political fallout.....
I just can't believe we've reached a point where we're trying people from halfway around the world in our court system for plotting to fly two jumbo airliners into our two tallest buildings in New York!
Is this really what liberals want our country to look like?
Well they commited a crime in the US so putting them on trial in the U.S seams the logical responce. Remove the system for determining whether someone is innocent or not and innocent people suffer. As has been demonstrated by extraordionary rendition etc. This isnt about being sympathetic to terroists, its about ensuring the terroists are killed and innocent people arent. Would you prefer to live in a country where people were killed in the absence of evidence they were guilty?
I can understand that a free trial is more then any of Al Qaedas victims ever got but giving them this only exposes their folly and hypocrisy.
Yeah! Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is innocent. Free the Gitmo Five.:rofl
Are you familiar with the process known as "discovery" in legal circles? Do you know how the discovery process will be used to expose American intelligence sources? Is this one of the reasons why KSM wasn't tried in the US District Court (SDNY) in the first place?
I can't see for the life of me why it wouldn't, due to the fact that once they set foot on U.S. soil they will be afforded full Constitutional protections then it is clear that their right to a speedy trial was in fact violated and thus the indictments must be dismissed.
Oh for **** sake i never said he was innocent. I said theres a need for a system to determine whether he was innocent or guilty. All im arguing for is the level of civilization attained in 1679. Im amazed this is so controversial.
The terrorist suspects are not typical enemy combattants. They'll be tried in civilian courts and people need to get over it. It's done. It's happening.
All that matters to me is that yet another campaign promise has gone down the drain as Obama is not going to meet the Gitmo closure deadline. Will he ever? The answer is probably no. Same coin, different side.
If this turns into a security nightmare and a media storm, God help us.
this is federal court. what's the issue here?I'm angered and baffled by this civil-court decision.
Aside everything that's already been mention . . .
Since when do civilian courts have the authority to make decisions which were once pertaining to federal government and military assigned issues and decisions? Surely some things are going to come into question and do the civi courts really have the authority to make calls in regard to those issues?
This brings into question issues of supremacy and so on - things that, in other cases in the past, the Supreme Court has been the only court to rule on.
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