9/11 Terrorists’ NYC Trial: Holder’s German Complication
Candace de Russy • November 22, 2009 • Uncategorized
Concerned for the lives of these “fiends,” as the New York Post introduces the most recent turn of events in this emerging legal saga, the Germans are “weaseling in” on the trial. Here’s the intriguing gist of the story:
the German government will send a team of observers to the New York terror trials to make sure evidence by its agents doesn’t lead to the death penalty.
Germany, which bans the death penalty, will have a team at the trial of admitted atrocity mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed … and four of his al Qaeda henchmen. The evidence gathered by German investigators could lead to death sentences …
German investigators handed over evidence for the trial on the condition that it could not be used to support a death sentence — which the US government has said it intends to seek if the five are found guilty.
President Obama last week said that he expects Mohammed will be put to death.
I leave it to legally trained visionaries to speculate on what this German presence at the trial augurs, if anything. What is certain, though, is that by deciding on a civilian rather than military trial U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has opened up an incredibly unpredicatable can of worms: Do Holder and the President think they can only get a conviction with the German evidence? Do they assume there will be no death penalty, despite their prejudicial public comments to the contrary? Is the German involvement perhaps intended as one more leap toward instituting an international legal system? Would it not have been far more judicious – and above all less of an invitation to more terrorism on U.S. soil – to leave the resolution of these crimes in the hands of a military tribunal?
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I agree that the issue of German observers getting into the mix that the Post spotlights is something to be concerned about. I fear this is a preview of the international circus of condemnation of the US death penalty which is absent from the justice systems of Germany and the other European nations. America will be viewed as the barbarian nation while giving the 9/11 terrorists a pass. How insane the world has become.
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