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Next Lesson Class: First Gitmo Detainee aquitted

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Anonymous

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_guantanamo_detainee

NEW YORK – The first Guantanamo detainee to face a civilian trial was acquitted Wednesday of all but one of the hundreds of charges he helped unleash death and destruction on two U.S. embassies in 1998 — a mixed result for what's been viewed as a terror test case.
A federal jury convicted Ahmed Ghailani of one count of conspiracy to destroy U.S. property and acquitted him on more than 280 other counts, including one murder count for each of the 224 people killed in the embassy bombings. The anonymous jurors deliberated over seven days.
Ghailani, 36, rubbed his face, smiled and hugged his lawyers after the jurors filed out of the courtroom.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan had thanked the jury, saying the outcome showed that justice "can be rendered calmly, deliberately and fairly by ordinary people — people who are not beholden to any government, even this one."
In a statement, Department of Justice spokesman Matthew Miller said U.S. officials "respect the jury's verdict" and are "pleased" that Ghailani faces a minimum of 20 years and a maximum of life in prison at sentencing on Jan. 25.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement that Ghailani "will face, and we will seek, the maximum sentence of life without parole."
Defense attorney Peter Quijano welcomed the acquittals. He said the one conviction would be appealed.



Did any of you actually think that crazy Muslims actually attacked us on 9/11 and took our country down with box cutters?
 

Tam

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All this proved is Obama and Holder are wrong AGAIN for bringing these guys onto American soil where they have to be given all the rights of a citizen to be tried in a Federal court room. And chances are if they bring any more terrorists to the US for trial the same will happen. As any good lawyer will use the fact evidence was not handled with kids gloves on the freaking battle field where the terrorists were picked up. These terrorists declared war on the US when they placed their first bomb and they should face a military trial AT GITMO without citizenship granted rights. :x AND PAY THE PRICE FOR THEIR ACTIONS.
 

Lonecowboy

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Remember, obama said in his book that when times get tough he will stick with the muslims.guess he just kept good on that promise.
This oughta boost his falling Presidential approval ratings!
 

Triangle Bar

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Tam said:
All this proved is Obama and Holder are wrong AGAIN for bringing these guys onto American soil where they have to be given all the rights of a citizen to be tried in a Federal court room. And chances are if they bring any more terrorists to the US for trial the same will happen. As any good lawyer will use the fact evidence was not handled with kids gloves on the freaking battle field where the terrorists were picked up. These terrorists declared war on the US when they placed their first bomb and they should face a military trial AT GITMO without citizenship granted rights. :x AND PAY THE PRICE FOR THEIR ACTIONS.

That's right on! There was a great deal of evidence & witness testimony that wasn't allowed because it was generated through 'enhanced interrogation'. These are terrorists engaged in murderous activity, they are not provided the protections of the geneva convention, they are not citizens of the USA and not provided the rights of the Constitution, and therefore interrogation and then extermination in the field or, if there continued existence is necessary, then justice through military trials.

The man child in chief, from the get go, showed his incompetence & hypocrisy of this failed policy before it began. When back in May he announced that he supported indefinite detention of individuals regardless of the verdicts.

That's great, constiutional protections provided as long as Obama gets the verdict he wants.:roll: That's one heck of a policy.
 
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Anonymous

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Class, you need to turn off your brainwashing radios and tv's. We live in a country where people are innocent until proven guilty. these people were held as prisoners for years for doing nothing wrong.

our government did 9/11 and thus you will find all of these detainees are innocent, just pawns in a game.
 

loomixguy

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shaumei said:
Class, you need to turn off your brainwashing radios and tv's. We live in a country where people are innocent until proven guilty. these people were held as prisoners for years for doing nothing wrong.

our government did 9/11 and thus you will find all of these detainees are innocent, just pawns in a game.

The above is BS of the highest order. "Doing nothing wrong?" Murdering or attempting to murder US Servicemen is doing nothing worng?

Let me make this as clear as possible for your disease addled brain, Shammy....The folks detained at GITMO weren't picked up while teaching Sunday School, soliciting funds for the Red Cross, or singing with the choir. They were picked up because they wanted to kill Americans, by any means possible. And you can take it to the bank that there are plenty of the detained who have pulled a trigger or flipped a switch.

Now, take your meds and go pick up your f'n shoe shine box and get back to work.

Irritating Imbecile.
 
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