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| The Trial Continues: No More Hooks For Abu Hamza |
| 2012-10-11 |
| Abu Hamza loses bid to have hooks returned, and will now get $19,000 rubber hands... at the U.S. taxpayer's expense o Hamza arrived in New York over the weekend after he was extradited from Britain to face terror charges o Without any kind of hand, Hamza is having to eat all his food with a straw o It is a result of new rules imposed after a prison security guard was stabbed in the eye with a sharpened comb by a former aide to Osama bin Laden o Prosthetic expert John N. Billock: 'You could brutalize somebody with it' o New York based prosthetic maker Arimed said the hands would be custom made for Hamza |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 I'm sure that the Mythbusters could craft a nice pair of hands for him for a lot less than that. I bet they could even bury some cyanide in them. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2012-10-11 10:06 |
| #1 Mamdouh_Mahmud_Salim - see wikipedia & Google. He was the one who, about to face trial on a previous terrorism change, fashioned a knife out of a plastic comb & stabbed a prison guard through his eye into his brain 1 Nov 2000. The guard lost his eye & is severely impaired. Salim pleaded guilty to the attack & was sentenced to 32 years for that offense alone. From National Review: "Judge Deborah Batts, the Clinton appointee assigned to the case, declined to sentence Salim to life imprisonment. Judge Batts was unmoved by the government’s contention that a terrorist’s maiming of a prison guard might possibly have had something to do with terrorism. It didn’t seem to matter that the attempted murder arose out of a plot designed to facilitate an al-Qaeda escape, or that Salim, who pled guilty to conspiracy, had admitted to planning the attack with another al-Qaeda member. Thus, the thoughtful jurist refused to apply the sentencing guideline that governs “federal crimes of terrorism.” Though Batts did impose a term of 32 years, a federal appellate court finally reversed her absurd ruling last year, sending the case back to her court." Salim's sentence was later 'upgraded' to life without parole. Hamza can eat out of a trough. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-10-11 00:43 |