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2013-03-08 Home Front: WoT

Why Bin Laden's Son-In-Law is in New York City, Not Gitmo

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Posted by tipper 2013-03-08 06:44|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 He's in NY because Bambi & Holder are IDIOTS.

Posted by Barbara 2013-03-08 08:26|| 2013-03-08 08:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Milking it in the sight of the voters. Nobody would pay attention if he'd been shipped off to Guantanamo Bay.

Posted by trailing wife 2013-03-08 09:23|| 2013-03-08 09:23|| Front Page Top

#3 This nobody wouldn't have cared if the spooks that grabbed him in Jordan had shot him then and there.

Posted by Lumpy Turkeyneck6299 2013-03-08 10:06|| 2013-03-08 10:06|| Front Page Top

#4 I was going to say, "Coz the food's better."

Posted by Perfesser 2013-03-08 10:28|| 2013-03-08 10:28|| Front Page Top

#5 The acquittal, due to legal technicality of Suleiman Abu Ghaith is in my view quite likely. I suspect his acquittal will be followed by a long line of others currently held at GITMO, being tried in NY, acquitted, and released.

Notice how quickly the discussion on Benghazi and drone strikes has been moved to the rear of the stove? Nothing this administration does in the middle of the night is unplanned.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-03-08 10:56|| 2013-03-08 10:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Sure. Acquit him.

Let that happen once or twice in New York and the Dems will never win another election there.

New Yorkers remember 9/11, and they remember who did it.

Posted by Steve White 2013-03-08 11:16|| 2013-03-08 11:16|| Front Page Top

#7 "#2 Milking it in the sight of the voters. Nobody would pay attention if he'd been shipped off to Guantanamo Bay."

I say not, believing that the whole pass on G-Mo was to not draw attention to the fact that Commander Zero has yet to deliver on his campaign promise to close it.....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-03-08 11:23|| 2013-03-08 11:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Was this a Valerie Jarret decision?

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2013-03-08 11:34|| 2013-03-08 11:34|| Front Page Top

#9 http://www.commonsenseevaluation.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Guess-Which-One.jpg

Posted by tipper 2013-03-08 11:38|| 2013-03-08 11:38|| Front Page Top

#10 The Kerry visit was a coincidence, according to a senior administration official....

Yet another coincidence ?

Posted by Besoeker 2013-03-08 11:45|| 2013-03-08 11:45|| Front Page Top

#11 While you werent looking, Obama kills military commissions
In the blink of an eye, the second Obama term has turned the clock back to the pre-9/11 days, when al Qaeda was a law-enforcement problem, not a national security challenge.

Remember the great ruckus over the administrations attempt to give Khalid Sheik Mohammed & Co. a civilian trial in lower Manhattan? In what would, in effect, reward their savagery in killing nearly 3000 Americans a few blocks from the federal courthouse, the administration proposed to endow them with all the constitutional rights and peacetime civilian due process protections of American citizens, despite the fact that the American peoples representatives in Congress having authorized wartime combat operations against our jihadist enemies had fashioned a military commission system for the trial of alien enemy combatants. The administration gambit was unsuccessful because the public, even in blue, blue New York City, rose up in protest, spurring congressional outrage and, eventually, legislation barring the executive branch from using public funds to transfer terrorists from Gitmo to the U.S. for civilian prosecution. The message could not have been clearer: for enemy combatants, it is military commissions or no trials at all, not civilian due process.

Posted by tipper 2013-03-08 11:53|| 2013-03-08 11:53|| Front Page Top

#12 Long-term interrogation can be icky and revealing. You might unearth information regarding networks, personnel, and future intent, Abbattabd, Benghazi, etc. Better to go with a more limited scope and a speedy trial.

[sarc off]

Posted by Besoeker 2013-03-08 12:10|| 2013-03-08 12:10|| Front Page Top

#13

New Yorkers remember 9/11, and they remember who did it.

Really? They don't act like it.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2013-03-08 12:42|| 2013-03-08 12:42|| Front Page Top

#14 Al Qaeda is "Anti-American". The Obama Regime and the millions that support the regime domestically is Anti-American. In different ways, for different reason, but firds of similar feathers, need each other. After all, no anti-"American" has been able to defeat "American" for 300 years.

Posted by Dino Shomomp7692 2013-03-08 12:58|| 2013-03-08 12:58|| Front Page Top

#15 Ghaith has already been interrogated briefly by Jordan's intel and probably by Turkey in February. The only important info he has concerns the cooperation between Al Qaeda and Iran. This info can perhaps given to the UN Security Council to rachet up sanctions and maybe even justify and pre-emptive strike.

I say, put him on The View and let him sing (actually being on The View might be a worse punishment than anything GITMO can dish out).

Posted by lord garth 2013-03-08 16:23|| 2013-03-08 16:23|| Front Page Top

#16 In New York I hope he does not smoke, drink 32 oz sodas or put on weight; it will make Bloomberg look foolish.

Who is this ghaith's lawyer? And who is paying for it?

Posted by Airandee 2013-03-08 17:58|| 2013-03-08 17:58|| Front Page Top

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