Despite Massive Evidence AQ Wannabes Walk In Miami Trial
These pukes, also known as “The Miami 7″ walked…
Given that hard evidence is often scarce in trials of unsuccessful terrorists, federal prosecutors in Miami no doubt felt fortunate to be trying defendants who participated in a ceremony pledging allegiance to al Qaeda—which was captured on video.
The defendants took surveillance photos of government buildings. The leader of the cell admitted requesting from an apparent terrorist financier boots, uniforms, vehicles, machine guns and $50,000. Just in case the reason for the request was unclear, Narseal Batiste stated—on tape—that it was for creating an “Islamic army” to wage a “full ground war” and commit an attack that would be “as good or greater than 9/11,” such as blowing up the Sears Tower.
It wasn’t enough. They weren’t convicted.
In a stunning defeat for common sense, a Miami jury last month couldn’t convict seven defendants on a single of the 28 total charges. One man, who had moved to Atlanta months before the arrests and had severed ties with the group, was acquitted entirely. The jury deadlocked on all charges brought against the other members of the “Liberty City Seven.”
Though prosecutors are re-trying the remaining defendants soon, odds of success the second time around seem dicey. Put simply, it appears that several jurors were determined to acquit, no matter the evidence.
Read the full Townhall.com article by Joel Mowbray here.
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ABOMINATION OF JUSTICE.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:21 pmSame thing as the Holy Land trial in Dallas - Just shows you that there are terrorist friendly voters amongst us who are doing jury duty (and running for president in the Democratic Party).
January 31st, 2008 at 4:12 pmAny you flaming leftist pukes out there want to expound on the benefits of treating obvious terrorists as criminals rather than enemy combatants again?
If this ridiculous outcome of the “Miami 7″ case fails to convince you of the flawed concept of affording terrorists access to the traditional US legal systems as opposed to beying tried in military courts, then you might as well surrender to the Islamofascists right now.
I have no problem stating what Joel Mobray is thinking - Growing up on military bases in Europe for the first ten years of my life resulted in my not being aquainted with the term racism or the concept until I came to the US. I found the concept shocking and dispicable then and I find it so today. So I take no pleasure in all in the reality that there was at least one juror in that trial that reached their decision based solely on race. And the only winners today were neither black or white — the winners today were the emboldened Islamofascists living among us. The loser today was once again the dream of a race blind society that judges a man based on his character rather than the color of his skin. And we have the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Barack Obama’s so-called minister and all the other self-serving leftist dems that perpetuate the vile doctrine of racism to thank.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:57 pmAnd the same thing will happen to the terrorists at Gitmo
if they are ever tried in the U S courts system. They will
be set free with compensation I am sure.
February 1st, 2008 at 5:33 am