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Terror ruling threatens civilian prosecutions


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LA Times:

David G. Savage and Richard A. Serrano
10/7/10

Washington…The Obama administration's prosecution of major foreign terror suspects in U.S. civilian courts has hit another roadblock, after a judge in New York blocked testimony this week from the government's key witness against a prisoner about to stand trial in connection with the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa in 1998.

The trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani is being closely watched as a test case for the legal system over whether a "high value" detainee held in a secret CIA location and later at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison can be tried and convicted under the rules of American criminal law.

The dispute sits at the heart of this still unresolved debate over whether terrorism suspects should be held as military prisoners or tried as criminals. And the judge's ruling in New York deals another political blow to the Obama administration, which has said Guantanamo Bay should be closed and the terror defendants tried in this country.

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When will the Dems come to recognize that these cretans are not criminals?

 

 

That would be about 45 minutes after hell freezes over.

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When will the Dems come to recognize that these cretans are not criminals?

 

 

That would be about 45 minutes after hell freezes over.

 

You are right, unfortunately.

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