Article

2010-01-27 Home Front: WoT

US senators urge bomb suspect face military trial

[Al Arabiya Latest] Two senior U.S. senators urged the Obama administration to hand over to the U.S. military the man accused of trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet on Christmas Day for additional interrogation and charges.

The Independent chairman and the ranking Republican on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins, demanded that Omar Farouk Abdulmutallab be charged as an enemy combatant rather than in a U.S. criminal court.

The decision to charge him in a criminal court "almost certainly prevented the military and the intelligence community from obtaining information that would have been critical to learning more about how our enemy operates and to preventing future attacks," they said in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Obama's counterterrorism adviser John Brennan.

Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old from Nigeria, was interviewed for about an hour by FBI agents and a day later was charged in a U.S. criminal court with trying to blow up Northwest flight 253 as it was approaching Detroit from Amsterdam on Dec. 25.

How the Obama administration handled the case has become almost daily fodder for Republicans, who accuse the White House of not being tough enough on national security matters, charges officials have denied.

Posted by Fred 2010-01-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 What do you expect: one is a jew and another is a republican (and both are melanin defficient)? These people never learn.

Posted by Eric Holder 2010-01-27 04:49|| 2010-01-27 04:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Picked right up on Scott Brown's "spend money to fight terrorists not to pay their lawyers" line didn't they?

Posted by AlanC 2010-01-27 06:56|| 2010-01-27 06:56|| Front Page Top

#3 melanin defficient

We prefer to be called Persons of Pallor.

Posted by lotp 2010-01-27 10:00|| 2010-01-27 10:00|| Front Page Top

#4 We prefer to be called Persons of Pallor.

Oh, I am so stealing that phrase.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-01-27 12:57|| 2010-01-27 12:57|| Front Page Top

18:26 Hellfish
18:23 Hellfish
17:40 swksvolFF
17:34 Ebbuger Whuque4103
17:30 Ebbuger Whuque4103
17:02 Melancholic
16:27 Gravilet Snanter4154
16:20 Chaise Speaking for Boskone7897
16:02 Skidmark
16:01 Skidmark
15:46 Skidmark
15:41 Skidmark
15:37 swksvolFF
15:36 Skidmark
15:34 Skidmark
15:27 Skidmark
14:48 NoMoreBS
14:31 NoMoreBS
14:16 NoMoreBS
14:15 NoMoreBS
14:04 swksvolFF
13:47 Regular joe
13:43 swksvolFF
13:38 swksvolFF