This Jihadi Moment
Brought to you by the United States Department of Justice. via Fox: 9/11 conspirator lawyer says his client is looking forward to the limelight. OK, that’s not exactly how he put it.
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.”
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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.
Fenstermaker met with Ali last week at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. He has not spoken with the others but said the men have discussed the trial among themselves.
Jihadis are allowed to conspire about global jihad amongst themselves? Well, I guess, seeing as global jihad is now a constitutionally protected right,* and a matter of legitimate trial preparation.
Malkin on same, who chimes in with this news: The Germans plan to make sure we don’t execute any terrorists … Huh? At last check, we had to execute a bunch of Germans to stop their mass murder. Now we’ve got Germans coming over here to lecture us on the subject?
* Don’t think so? Look it up. “Congress shall make no law abridging the right of jihadis to grandstand in front of juries.” It’s in there.
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Topics: Omega, al qaeda, dummkopf!
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:01 am Comments (1) on Monday, November 23, 2009
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November 23rd, 2009 at 2:45 pm
If Obama’s fumbling of issues domestic and international doesn’t kill his 2012 reelection bid, this trial and it’s too-horrible-to-contemplate consequences most certainly will.