April 07, 2004

STILL want to treat it as a "law enforcement" issue?
Posted by McQ

The inevitable happens when terror is treated as a law enforcement issue.

HAMBURG, Germany (CNN) -- A Hamburg court has ordered the release of the only suspect convicted in the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.

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He was found guilty of providing logistical support for the Hamburg al Qaeda cell that included lead September 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta, who piloted one of the two airliners that crashed into the World Trade Center in New York.

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Can somebody explain to me again WHY we still have troops in the EU? Our so-called allies continue to stab us in the back whenever the opportunity arises. Let them pay for their own damned security, lets see how long their "nanny state" holds up then.

Posted by: Jim G. at April 7, 2004 07:50 AM

My thinking goes like this - we want him free. We want him to think it's nearly safe to return to his old ways. All the while, we watch and listen. Seems to me that many AQ types are not quite sophisticated tactically speaking. But then...I could be wrong. LOL

Posted by: LauraN at April 7, 2004 09:36 AM

hold it.

Do you know WHY his conviction was overturned?

Because the German court received a statement from an AQ commander who was supposedly in charge of 9/11, saying the cell he was supposed to be a part of was never intended to have 5 members. This commander, now in US custody, was cited by the defense in their appeal and the Germans requested he be made available for testimony by the US. The request was denied, and the appeals court had no choice but to throw out the conviction -- but ordered him re-tried. This is less over than the Tyco trial.

Perhaps if the Bush admin would take law enforcement SERIOUSLY, it might work.

Posted by: Dave T at April 7, 2004 11:46 PM

Dave ... did you read the article this references? What are you inferring, that I tried to "withold" the reason? Its right there.

The reason has to do with intelligence security. Make sense to you or are you all for spilling our intel secrets and techniques all over a foreign court?

It seems odd to me that a man convicted of providing logistical support to a cell (don't have to be a member of THAT particular cell to do that), buddy-buddy with Atta and convicted of the charges against him is FREED to go where he wants to go until his next trial. Seems to me, on the surface, there'd be more than enough evidence to hold him in custody until the next trial. As a "convicted terrorist", or even a suspected one, I'd consider him to be a high flight risk. How about you?

Any bets on where he'll be when his new trial begins?

Bet it won't be in the courtroom.

Posted by: McQ at April 8, 2004 08:03 AM