[ April 24, 2024 ]
Obama is dropping the case against the Cole bombing, a jihadist act of war. In October 2000, the Cole was attacked by Muslim terrorists in a homicide attack in the Yemeni post of Aden. Seventeen sailors were killed and thirty-nine were injured, and the ship was damaged.
Today we hear they are dropping the case. Another big fat lie, to what end? To advance what agenda? Whose interests? Certainly it's not America's.
Obama Administration Halts Commission Trial Against Cole Bomber NRO
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It’s a sleepy Friday in late August, the president is on another
vacation, Congress is out of town, no one is paying much attention. What
better time for the Obama administration to pull the plug,
once again, on military commissions? This time, it has halted the case
of top al-Qaeda operative Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who was to be
prosecuted by a military court for the Cole bombing. The Washington Post report is here, and Jen Rubin has thoughts at Contentions.None of this is terribly surprising. Prosecuting the Cole case by military commission sticks in the Left’s craw because it shows the incoherence of the Obama/Holder position.
They want to treat the war like a crime and endow our enemies with all
the rights and advantages of civilian courts; yet, they went military in
the Cole case, despite the fact that there is a pending Justice Department civilian indictment
addressing that attack. There can be only one explanation for that:
they are afraid the case against Nashiri is weak and might not hold up
under (slightly) more exacting civilian court due process. That is, the
Obama/Holder position is not principled — for all their “rule of law”
malarkey, they are willing to go where they have the best chance to win.
But there were no military commissions when the Cole was
bombed, so what is the basis for trying it militarily? Answer: the 9/11
attacks and the ensuing war . . . except the Left doesn’t accept that
it’s a war and the administration wants to prosecute the 9/11 plotters
in civilian court. None of it makes any sense.I have been saying
for a while now: Keep your eye on the civilian prosecution against
Ahmed Ghailani, one of the embassy bombers. That case is now pending in
Manhattan federal court before Judge Lewis Kaplan, who has made
significant rulings in favor of the government — declining to throw the
case out on the grounds of “torture” and delay. As I said back in May:It is . . . worth noting that Ghailani is not charged just with blowing up the embassies. The indictment against him alleges the overarching al-Qaeda conspiracy to murder Americans — going back to 1991. The same indictment,
with a few tweaks to add the terrorist rampages that occurred after the
embassy bombings, could easily be used to charge the 9/11 plotters, as
well as other enemy combatants.Despite all the outrage it stirred, Attorney
General Holder has not abandoned his push for a civilian trial
of [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other 9/11 plotters] in New York.
Don’t be surprised if the Justice Department uses the Ghailani ruling to
argue that the naysayers’ concerns about giving KSM a soapbox are
overblown. Don’t be surprised if Justice tries to slide the 9/11 attacks
right into the embassy-bombing indictment. That would land KSM squarely before Judge Kaplan.
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26 Comments
13 years ago
It is really strange why they would want to halt a military tribunal against an attacker who attacked the military.
I had a friend in college who had to go to military court because he was caught by MP smoking a joint on what turned out to be military property. It was a museum or archives building downtown.
The legal case can be made to even try KSM in civilian court, not an argument I favor but one which I can see being made.
But this….
astonishing
13 years ago
Nashiri isn’t a criminal, he’s a prisoner of war. Incarceration for the duration.
13 years ago
So maybe this is what they re doing?
Trying to pass them on to the next admin?
I can see the purpose in not wanting a trial from the Democratic point of view, which is that a trial and its publicity would “inflame Muslim sensibilities”. So they let them rot in legal limbo.
The problem I see with the prisoner of war status is that it affords him protections under Geneva.
You don’t want that with terrorists who are also witnesses to other terrorists and who frankly do not qualify as POWs. Geneva acknowledges illegal combatants and exempts them from pretty much anything save shooting them on the spot.
Under Geneva you can’t interrogate POWs.
Even if you don’t water board them or other liberal nickertwist methods, you still need to interrogate them to obtain tactical info.
I think they just wanted to avoid a circus and appease Muslims.
What a great way to improve credibility…. 😉
13 years ago
It’s getting to be time for a mob with torches and pitchforks to descend on Washington, D.C., to round up all of the members of the Obama Administration and all of the members of Congress (and the members of the MSM), to tar them and feather them, to carry them out of town on rails, and to banish them to spend the rest of their lives wallowing in the filth and muck of a sewage treatment plant, where all of those slimy low-lifes belong.
Obama, Holder, Clinton, Democrats in Congress and their slimy sycohants in the MSM are real pieces of work. I’ve never seen anyone else like them. How did we come to this? How did those swine become empowered?
The Greatest Generation was the last generation that had ethics, integrity and honor.
13 years ago
I don’t see a problem with this, and this is why:
Why go through the expense of a trial when one can slowly poison them to death? As Bugs Bunny said in a 1950 short—ain’t I a DEVIL!
@armaros—I think that they are doing just that—this is a hot potato.
13 years ago
they are willing to go where they have the best chance to win.
You seriously have a problem with that? Whatever method more likely to get this terrorist to get a rope around his neck is fine with me. I’m a vehement Obama critic and I think this is great for our goals because it maximizes the punishment for this jihadist and at the same time illustrates the doublespeak from Obama.
A better writeup would be just to focus on the doublespeak and rub it into the lefties.
13 years ago
Mr. Obama must go. Impeach, convict, imprison.
Vote in November for people who will defend the Constitution of the USA and who will impeach this wretched pseudo-president.
Not only has Barry O betrayed the USA, he also has betrayed the future of human civilization (and his own children!) by refusing to use his knowledge of Islam to warn and protect.
Surely there are some people in Washington and in other world Capitols who are willing to put the future of human civilization first, ahead of the bribes of Saudi Prince “aL-aWeed Been-Tokin'”.
Make it your job to FIND them and support them at your earliest opportunity!
KAFIR AND PROUD!!
13 years ago
Just curious and little off subject. With regard to this and other terrorists who may be tried in civilian courts presunably under federal criminal laws- were any of these defendants charged with a “hate crime”. I am simply curious.
13 years ago
It’s common practice in Muslim countries to pardon or free criminals during the holy month of Ramadink, Obama is carrying on with his Muslim traditions. Sigh, the taxpayer’s are paying the jiza or what ever they call the infidel tax that is paid to Muslims in the form of free Travel whilst the left partake of the taqiyya. Sharia Law can’t be to far behind in the West, enforced by liberals and their Islamists’ buddies of course.
13 years ago
But this is neither a pardon nor freeing; the case remains open. Therefore, your analogy is invalid.
13 years ago
I’m very surprised the case wasn’t closed years ago.
13 years ago
Anyone got ANY doubts these people aren’t traitors!
13 years ago
I do—that’s not a treasonous action. Treason would be releasing them into the USA.
13 years ago
friends:
every country should experience the full panoply of historical events.
we have never experienced a right wing military coup before. it would be a crying shame we didn’t experience one now, when we could really use it, before this traitor/muslim plant drives both the economy and the united states military straight into the ground.
i was talking to a bunch of fellows yesterday at breakfast, including a marine who served active duty 1961-1972. he made a telling point. he said that by pulling out of iraq and pussyfooting it in afghanistan, we were giving up “hallowed ground” paid for in blood, and ground quite likely that would see the spilling of american ground again, in the not too distant future.
he called it betrayal, and said this administration is selling this country down the drain.
coup? anyone?
john jay
milton freewater, oregon usa
13 years ago
correction:
“… would see the spilling of american blood again, in the not too distant future.”
hey, he earned the opinion with service. who am i to question intelligence when i come across it?
jjjay
13 years ago
LOL, you must be telepathic, John. I was just thinking that the behavior of Holder and Obama is making an excellent case for restoring the practice of burning evil people on stakes, or of at least tarring and feathering scoundrels and carrying them out of town on rails.
But a coup? Naw. If you want to start one, go ahead. I’ll make a picnic lunch and watch from a safe distance. 🙂
13 years ago
One day, maybe not too long off in the future, we, misguided as we currently are, by those we trust to our service, will remember who and what we are – free people, honorable and just to all, and to again believe, and act, upon swift justice, in order to remind all those would harm another, that punishment for wrong-doing curtails others who, in the future, might do wrong. It’s basic, yet – perhaps, forgotten, that our strength has always come from our unity in belief that we, as a whole, have a better system of government than one [Great Britain] we left behind. Where ultimate control, by our servant-government, could never be possible. That we, as an intelligent, modern, expressive, creative people, would be free to expand our gifts of good, and leave behind those things that we knew corrupted life, family, and a promised future to all our children.
We only seek a common good, one that we ALL see when we dream, and those dreams have moved empires to peace. When we awake, that dream must continue to be realized, SHARED, cultivated, and acted on.
Remove the “left”, remove the “right”, eliminate the titles – they mislead and imprint upon us that “this is that way” and “they are this way”. We are either directed to a common right, or we are led astray.
When our government, comprised of misleading entities, is wrong – WE ARE RESPONSIBLE. If WE are to blame, then WE must correct OUR MISTAKE. How far would you go to correct your mistakes to your self, your family, your friends? WE are part of our government – the most important part – WE CHOOSE EVERYTHING.
13 years ago
Very plausable, armaros. Presidents and Congresses on the cusp of power loss often pass the buck to the other parties administration. Of course, improving credibility could also be acheived by letting go of the all the prisoners and personally baking all the cakes Americans are supposed to eat. Only the former seems poosible, though.
Actually, I used Prisoner of War for affect. It sounds stronger than ‘enemy combatant’ and I don’t even know what that means applied to prisoners. Enemy combatant is the enemy soldier/fighter, not the guy removed from the fight. I’d be ok with ‘enemy dead’, but that might just be me.
13 years ago
Don’t forget the lawyers.
Except John Jay! 🙂
13 years ago
I would not be totally against a such a coup. The Constitution does provide for suspension of rights because of civil insurrection. I would call what Obama is doing a civil insurrection – organized opposition (Obama minions) to authority (Constitution); a conflict in which one faction (current admin) tries to wrest control from another (WE, the people.)
It may be a better option than the constitutional convention idea making the rounds. The results of a CC could be the dissolution of the Republic and Constitution at the hands of Leftist delegates. A right wing coup would most likely be more protective of the Constitution and the intent of the Founders.
No guarantees either way.
13 years ago
There must be a way to prosecute members of the Obama Administration for obstructing justice in this case involving al Qaeda-sponsored terrorism. The USS Cole didn’t blow a hole in its side by itself and everything we know about the USS Cole attack points to that hole having been put there by members of Islam. The federal government absolutely MUST live up to its obligation of putting terrorists and d4efending our citizens’ lives as the US Constitution demamds that they do. Any officials standing in the way of the process of justice in this case must be dealt justice himself/herself.
Obama and Holder are committing a crime by stopping the justice process. They actually shouldn’t even have had the opportunity to do this. I am puzzled as to how the legal system got so distorted that criminal conduct such as this by Obama and Holder doesn’t meet with a noticeable reaction against it by members of the legal system.
13 years ago
Another interesting story I didn’t read in the Times. But hears the thing, the Republicans running for office know about or will know about ths before election time. What will that do with it? When Obama runs for reelection will the Republicans use all of the information that sites like this have come up with or will they just sit on it like they did with news about Obama and his relationships with Ayers and Jeremy Wright?
13 years ago
Your country is really f*cked … I mean… you should join the EU you’ve become so retarded (in the space of a year!). Your government is literally destroying your country piece by piece, brick by brick. You’ve insulted all your allies, and hugged all your enemies. How long ’til Iran gets the bomb? Did North Korea just sink a South Korean sub and get away 100% scott free? Did your president voice more emotion about builing a MOSQUE than he did about the Iranian (now failed) revolution?
God help us all.
13 years ago
The war isn’t over, however.
13 years ago
Maybe our allies need to not be insulted so easily? They complain too much.
13 years ago
Goes to show how pro-Muslim cause “OOO” is. This is the fruit of it. His actions speak loudly as to what he is. Wonder if the Fort Hood jihadist will go free after so long also? “OOO” needs to be removed by IMPEACHMENT. http://www.impeachobamacampaign.com/articlesofimpeachment/
