In case anyone has forgotten, on October 12, 2000, an al Qaeda attack was perpetrated on the U.S. naval destroyer, the U.S.S. Cole as it was refueling at a port in Yemen - 17 American sailors were killed in that attack and 39 sailors were severely injured. That attack was plotted, spearheaded and conducted by the al Qaeda operation commander, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. After the attack, al-Nashiri was captured and at this moment in time, he is still sitting in a cell in Gitmo where he has been awaiting trial for his cowardly act of terrorism before a military tribunal. Many Cole victims families have been waiting for nearly 10 years for justice to be serve to this al Qaeda commander for the murder of their family members.
But hold the phone, folks. Your President and your Attorney General have decided to halt that military commissioned trial of the madman behind this historic terror attack. Let's look at some of the article on this from Family Security Matters:
And that is the rub here. Barack Hussein Obama and his proxy terrorist appeaser, Eric Holder have been adamant that they must not condone the Iraq War as an actual war and so, ANY prisoner held in Gitmo, cannot be held or tried as a war criminal or a terrorist - they see these islamic terrorists as simple public criminals.
What this basically means is that the families of the victims of the U.S.S. Cole have waited 10 years to see justice for their fallen, to see vengeance served. And Barack Hussein Obama and Eric Holder have stolen that from them.
Now, let's be blunt here. Americans have a big decision to make in about 60 days - will they elect and re-elect members of the Democrat party to Congress or not. Will Americans go to the polls and with their votes for the Democrats agree that al Qaeda terrorists who attacked New York City, the Pentagon, those U.S. airliners, the U.S.S. Cole and the U.S. embassies in Africa are not enemies of America but just simple criminals? Will the American people decide to support Barack Hussein Obama and Eric Holder in their effort to eventually allow these al Qaeda terrorists to walk free from their cowardly acts against U.S. citizens and military personnel?
This decision by Holder was announced on Friday - where has the outrage been from our representatives in Washington, D.C.? I'm a blogger in middle America who is outraged by this and is standing up to say that this is a travesty of our government at the highest levels and at the same time, not a single GOP or Democrat Representative or Senator has had the balls to stand up or get on television and call this decision out for what it is - a slap in the face to our victims of islamic terror.
I want to see al-Nashiri taken from his cell in Gitmo and walked to a wall of that facility. I want him to be turned around and have him face 10 U.S. naval marksmen. I want him then to be asked if he wants to express his regret for his cowardly act. And then, after the proper amount of time for him to consider that 10 rounds are soon to be headed for his head and torso, I want his body riddled with justice. And in fact, I want an extra seven rounds pumped into his body so 17 of our heroes are avenged.
But hold the phone, folks. Your President and your Attorney General have decided to halt that military commissioned trial of the madman behind this historic terror attack. Let's look at some of the article on this from Family Security Matters:
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.
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.
And that is the rub here. Barack Hussein Obama and his proxy terrorist appeaser, Eric Holder have been adamant that they must not condone the Iraq War as an actual war and so, ANY prisoner held in Gitmo, cannot be held or tried as a war criminal or a terrorist - they see these islamic terrorists as simple public criminals.
What this basically means is that the families of the victims of the U.S.S. Cole have waited 10 years to see justice for their fallen, to see vengeance served. And Barack Hussein Obama and Eric Holder have stolen that from them.
Now, let's be blunt here. Americans have a big decision to make in about 60 days - will they elect and re-elect members of the Democrat party to Congress or not. Will Americans go to the polls and with their votes for the Democrats agree that al Qaeda terrorists who attacked New York City, the Pentagon, those U.S. airliners, the U.S.S. Cole and the U.S. embassies in Africa are not enemies of America but just simple criminals? Will the American people decide to support Barack Hussein Obama and Eric Holder in their effort to eventually allow these al Qaeda terrorists to walk free from their cowardly acts against U.S. citizens and military personnel?
This decision by Holder was announced on Friday - where has the outrage been from our representatives in Washington, D.C.? I'm a blogger in middle America who is outraged by this and is standing up to say that this is a travesty of our government at the highest levels and at the same time, not a single GOP or Democrat Representative or Senator has had the balls to stand up or get on television and call this decision out for what it is - a slap in the face to our victims of islamic terror.
I want to see al-Nashiri taken from his cell in Gitmo and walked to a wall of that facility. I want him to be turned around and have him face 10 U.S. naval marksmen. I want him then to be asked if he wants to express his regret for his cowardly act. And then, after the proper amount of time for him to consider that 10 rounds are soon to be headed for his head and torso, I want his body riddled with justice. And in fact, I want an extra seven rounds pumped into his body so 17 of our heroes are avenged.
Administration Halts Trial Against USS Cole Bomber
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.
What I said about the 9/11 plotters can also be said about Nashiri: the pending embassy bombing indictment could easily be adjusted to add the Cole attack. If I were Attorney General Holder and President Obama, and I were hell-bent on giving the top al-Qaeda terrorists civilian trials, I would supersede the embassy bombing indictment to add the terrorists involved in both the 9/11 and Cole attacks to the case before Judge Kaplan . But . . . I would delay announcing that I was doing this until after the November elections because of the uproar it would cause and the hot seat on which it would put Democrats already beleaguered in their reelection bids.
But that’s just me. I’m sure the administration wouldn’t think of doing something like that, right?
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Another day, another treasonous action.
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