Ahmed Omar Abu Ali – the al Qaeda suspect who confessed to being ordered by Osama bin Laden to assassinate President Bush – was convicted yesterday by a federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia.
Perhaps this conviction will prove to Bush and his trials-be-damned Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, that U.S. courts are fully capable of bringing suspected terrorists to justice. And, therefore, that there’s no humane reason to keep them hog-tied on Guantanamo Bay or in secret prisons in Eastern Europe, indefinitely.
Click here for a little background information on this case and to see why it would’ve been a shock if Abu Ali were not convicted….
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Anonymous says
after abu gharib who can believe anything the americans say about torture and that goes double for saudis who abu ali claims tortured that confession out of him.
justice? bullshit!