Gitmo gall: Charges dropped against Cole bombing jihadist
While President Doom wallows in the politics of fear to salvage the failing stimulus behemoth, a national security mess looms.
This in tonight:
The Pentagon’s senior judge overseeing terror trials at Guantanamo Bay dropped charges Thursday against an al-Qaida suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, upholding President Barack Obama’s order to freeze military tribunals there. The charges against suspected al-Qaida bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri marked the last active Guantanamo war crimes case.
The legal move by Susan J. Crawford, the top legal authority for military trials at Guantanamo, brings all cases into compliance with Obama’s Jan. 22 executive order to halt terrorist court proceedings at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba.
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said Crawford dismissed the charges against al-Nashiri without prejudice. That means new charges can be brought again later. He will remain in prison for the time being.
“It was her decision, but it reflects the fact that the president has issued an executive order which mandates that the military commissions be halted, pending the outcome of several reviews of our operations down at Guantanamo,” Morrell said late Thursday night.
The ruling also gives the White House time to review the legal cases of all 245 terror suspects held there and decide whether they should be prosecuted in the U.S. or released to other nations.
Andy McCarthy provides background and analysis:
…it is noteworthy that, before the appointing authority acted this evening, Obama had scheduled a meeting for tomorrow afternoon with victims and families of victims not only of the Cole bombing but of of the 9/11 attacks. At a minimum, he appeared poised to announce he was dropping the Cole charges against Nashiri. All evening, however, it has been floated from several knowledgeable sources that the president was prepared to announce the dismissal of all the commission cases — i.e., not only against Nashiri but against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other 9/11 plotters. That suggestion is supported by the fact that the 9/11 families were invited to the White House meeting: there would have been no need to invite them to discuss an announcement that impacted only the Cole case.
Dismissals, if they happened, would surely be couched as “without prejudice.” That is, Obama would be able to tell the families — whether he meant it or not — that he could always re-file military commission charges if he ultimately decided that commissions, rather than civilian trials, were the best way to go.
The appointing authority’s action tonight removes the pressure on Obama to do anything tomorrow. (In truth, there was really no pressure on Obama to act tomorrow. It just happens that tomorrow is Friday, the day when administrations traditionally announce news they’d prefer to see buried — even when the country is not already distracted by a catastrophic trillion dollar “stimulus” bill.) Nevertheless, I would not be surprised to see the new administration go ahead and shut down all the commissions tomorrow.
My friend Melanie Morgan of Move America e-mails:
I am getting word from my sources inside the Beltway that tomorrow President Obama is going to hold a meeting with some families of the 9/11 victims, as well as survivors of the USS Cole bombing at the White House. My sources say that he is going to defend his decision to shut-down Gitmo during a photo op. My organization, Move America Forward, is releasing a new TV spot demanding that Obama keep Guantanamo Bay open. Closing Gitmo is just plain wrong. It is a slander against the professionalism of our troops at Gitmo who are guarding some of the most evil monsters running around this rock we call Earth. It is an open invitation for stone cold killers to join us on American soil to bust out their buddies, or activate sleeper cells against the federal prisons where the jihadists will be kept. And I don’t know about you, but I sure as hell don’t want a bunch of thugs, murderers and bombers being kept in federal prisons near me, nor receiving American style justice.
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The families should refuse to be a part of this travesty then hold their own press conference to explain why.
Photo op? Let’s hope he’s meeting with real families of victims and not those squishy types like we saw with the fake soldiers McBeth mess.
Can we question Obama’s patriotism now?
This president is a disgrace. His coddling of terrorists is disgusting.
And yes, we can all now question his patriotism. Would breaking his oath of office be considered treason or perjury? What happened to protecting the US against all enemies, foreign or domestic?
Is it reasonable to discuss?
Exactly.
Over 7 years have passed since 9/11. The problem here is that the military tribunals were not started immediately after we captured a suspect (and I would hope that we had exhausted their intelligence potential rather quickly). Not one of these terrorists has swung at the end of a rope and, therefore, we appear to be just a lot of talk when it comes to punishment. it is one thing to be prudent, but we captured these individuals on the battlefield or as part of the battle — and criminal proceedings with all of the protection provision for criminals should not apply.
My hope is that a future President, certainly not obama, recognizes that justice delayed is not only justice denied but is also unjust to the victims.
Oh, by the way, if anyone really wants to see what torture is like, they should google the al queda torture manual. Funny, but water boarding isn’t in the manual because it doesn’t inflict enough pain and permanent injury.
Americans elected Obama and rejected Tancredo.
Well, choice has it’s price.
The entire reason for the 9/11 attacks was because the terrorists figured that the entire US response would be some kind of “can’t we all play nice” nonsense.
Make no mistake: The 9/10 mentality is back in at the White House!!
We should be worried when terrorists go free and border patrol agents are locked up for years. Something is very, very wrong in this country.
This is sending a message of weakness to those that are probably plotting the next terrorist attack on US soil right now.
It is not If but When at this point.
How many more months till we experience Biden’s prediction of testing the steel spine of the obamessiah? What will the reaction be?
BTW, comment registration is open @ lucianne….
The lesson here that should be learned is to kill ‘em on the battle field, and take no prisoners!
If the leaders of Israel had pulled half the crap that some of the past (and present) presidents of the United States have done, they would not be a country today…just a smoking hole.
Cheney’s predicting sooner rather than later. What a mess we’re in with this lame president that was elected because he is “cool”.
Is his office next door to Ayers move-in ready yet? Enemies foreign and domestic…
Pres. Hussein is going to get a lot of people killed with his cowardly Rodney King can’t-we-all-just-get-along diplomacy with the Islamists.
Over the past few decades Republican presidents have had to come in behind the Democrats and clean up the foreign relations nightmares left by Carter, Clinton, and now Hussein Obama because they fear a strong military force.
But those people (Dem’s) never learn from their screw-ups. They get back in power and show their yellow streaks and it starts all over again.
Hussein Obama turns to the Islamites and says, “Can’t we all just get along? Please don’t hit me, ouch, don’t hit me again, ouch, don’t kill any more of us, ouch; I’m trying to show you that I’m a nice guy here. Ouch! Ouch!”
Americans elected Obama and rejected Tancredo.
Well, choice has it’s price.
I REALLY believe that most people that voted for Obama did not know anything about Obama. He had a lot money and powerful, famous people supporting him. And that made him so “cool”. I personally know quite a few people that voted for him because he is black and young/cool. It was the cool thing to do among young people.
Hussein may be a Harvard graduate. But he is a total idiot.
He orders the closing of Gitmo before determining what to do with the prisoners! In the absence of a solid plan, he has no other choices but to release the terrorists.
I am not sure if Hussein’s campaign team and the Transition team are the same. The brilliant campaign machine showing total incompetence by selecting so many tax cheats on the nomination list!
Hussein’s lack of experience has become evident in the way the stimulus bill is being high jacked by the Pelosi-Reid team.
A strong leader with clear vision would give the blueprint of the stimulus package for the congress to work on. In stead, this buffoon will end up signing the bill in whatever shape it may arrive on his desk.
Now that’s the leadership and experience we will get for the duration of Hussein’s term.
I agree. This POS is just looking for a photo op for cover. I’m sure the media will help him spin it any way they need to.
Just like Hillbilly Clinton awarding the Medal of Honor to the surviving parents of one of the soldiers killed in Somalia. The Father refused to shake his hand and told him “you aren’t fit to be President”.
No media covered it although they were present, and we would not have known about it except for Rush reading it in a newspaper overseas and talking about it.
Though the military will never quit until told to do so, I have to ask this question:
“Why should a man, however valorous, stand and die while right and left, fore and rear, his fellows deserted him?”
- From Steven Pressfield’s “Gates of Fire”
If our country is no longer with the military in this fight, as evidenced by, now, all three branches of government, then what’s the point? But then again, my mission in life right now is to prove them wrong, to prove wrong the weaklings of our government, and defeat this enemy, the same enemy Leonidas fought.
“First then, no matter what, the
SpartansAmericans will never accept your terms. This would reduceGreecethe United States to slavery. They are sure to join battle with you even if all the rest of theGreeksfree world surrendered to you. As forSpartanAmerican numbers, do not ask how many or few they are, hoping for them to surrender. For if a thousand of them should take the field, they will meet you in battle, and so will any other number, whether it is less than this, or more.”But what of the enemy within?
Unfortunately it is everyday American citizens that will be saying more than ouch.
Stopping this trial makes no sense. I understand why, but since it has taken the Bush Administration 7 years to get to this point, we should not stop the ongoing process.
The reality is, it should not have taken this long to try any of these guys. Had Pres Bush done what he should have done when it was time to do it, we would not be in this situation now. There should have been Military Tribunals from day one.
As for this ridiculous quote from Move America Forward, ” . . . It is an open invitation for stone cold killers to join us on American soil to bust out their buddies, or activate sleeper cells against the federal prisons where the jihadists will be kept . . .”
The terrorist do not need an excuse or added reason to attack us.
And, what about the current terrorists who are in our prisons now? Are there plans to bust them out? Please get a grip because hyperbole serves no one.
The current Administration was handed this situation, and they want to handle it their way. It is unfortunate but that is how we do things in America.
Yes, explain why they think this idiot is a traitor to their country. Any bets Odummy is not a Christian?
None-the-less, choices have a price.
I am speechless.
I now have 58,001 reasons why a Democrat should never lead this country in a war. One is our rookie President who has displayed nothing but weakness since 12:01 p.m. EST on January 20.
The other 58,000 reasons are names on a wall in Washington D.C.
It is very difficult sometimes not to hate these people.
Roger that!
Bhishma- You have a point, but you sound like a traitor. Don’t you want to stand up for what is right for your Country?
rfjjulie said:
I am speechless.
I am angry, sad, furious, frustrated…
GodblessedtheUSA- Me too. I just don’t have the words to express myself at the moment! I am seething. Makes me feel like a momma Bear.
I have no respect for Obama anymore!
It’s so frustrating to have this Obama guy destroying our country!
I came to this country 17 years ago, i’ve worked so hard all my life, my husband served in the Army as an Officer for 9 years! We love this country so much, we gave so much and now we have this irrigant president bassically dispecting the sacrifice of our men and women.
It hurts really bad!
I never did have any respect for Obama. Why should I? A hack politician from Chicago who had zero accomplishments on his resume before being selected president.
Welcome to the Socialist States of America comrade.
I agree with you Soup. There is something wrong with this country. The question is when are we going to say enough is enough and march on D.C. and run these eliteist out and take back our country. I also agree with av8tr that he is not upholding his oathe. Can we not impeach him now ?
Let the Brothers Go!
The allies of the jihad control the White House and both Houses of Congress, the American people have spoken. In a sea of millions of mohammedan jihdi these few miserable fools make little difference.
What, you think it makes us look weak? The mohammedan street has sized up our nation, Congress and President and found us wanting of courage. Any of you really think this government, this Justice Department has the stomach to take on these jihadist thugs?
President Bush let the mohammedans off the hook early; after initial action he did little. After toppling Hussein he allowed the jihadist to pour across the Iranian and Syrian borders to attack our troops. The Saudi were never held accountable, we allowed even more mohammedans into our country to be a fifth column and President Bush talked of the Religion of Peace.
And now the American people have chosen Barack Hussein Obama. He may talk to them, beg like a dog and even send the ayatollahs a Bible. But this government will not protect any country we recognize. Mr. President, close that prison and Let the Brothers Go.
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That every man be armed–you to ladies. You are on your own.
As someone who is truly not very religious (and knows he ought to be), I cannot but think Islam and its cohort liberalism is not only a mental disorder but a psycho-spiritual evil as well. Satan is alive and well, and manifesting himself in this type of madness. We’d better start praying hard for our country, and start loudly demanding real accountability not only in our leaders but in the dolts who elect such pathogens as the liberals we are now suffering in high office.
Lib radio station talk jockies in NYC are already clucking about this under the veil of “enlightened families appealing for compassion” and “revenge serves no purpose and can’t bring our loved ones back” and “we should really understand why they’re angry at us”, etc.
Are the 9/11 Victims and Families organizations aware of this flattering persuasional meeting and how could we alert and support them in this PR war to protect our own skins?
James Greenidge
Queens, New York
Since the liberals have taken control of the government, they stopped being “terrorists” and are now “freedom fighters”. Just like Carter thought, if we’re nice to them, maybe they’ll be nice to us. Reminds me of the Bill Cosby routine about his kids having “brain damage”.
Fixed it.
Puffy/Obama is not acting as President he is still RUNNING for president as noted by all his speeches. He’s like a dog chasing a car. Don’t know what the hell to do with it when he catches it..now he has caught it and behaving as only someone unqualified would behave. KENYA is missing an idiot
This is the worst news yet in this Obamanation.
So “our” {resident is decriminalizing jihadist attacks on the US Military, even when those attacks kill our military volunteers.
Sounds like a Code Pink Plan.
My advice is to again….go get more ammo and guns.
Terrorists know for sure that O will do everything he can to help them. Look for an attack very soon. With a terrorist sympathizer in the White House who is trying to crush our economy they have to feel like its time to strike.
They know they can bring us down economically. Attacks by terrorists are eminent not just here but around the world. Israel will be attacked again very shortly. “Its on” is what the terrorists (Muslims) are saying. The US President has given them the green light!
Coming this fall, new hit TV show, “are you dummer than an Obama voter”
Can’t wait for the Willie Horton Obama ads.
HMMM!
I wonder if Obama would try to pull their broadcast license?
How many Jihadists has Pres Bush released from Gauntanamo?
At least ‘61′ maybe more.
How many Jihadists has Pres Obama released from Gauntanamo?
Zero
The Jihadists now have their own man in the White House.
Sad.
The link to the Cole Memorial site is wrong. Here is the correct link.
You guys are huffing and puffing over nothing. A terrorist has not been released. Even a suspected terrorist has not been released. What happened is that the new administration wants trials run by Americans to be up to American standards.
We are doomed to repeat 9/11. Pres O just telegraphed to the jihadis that things have changed and we are now snatching Victory from the jaws of Defeat.
When Obama’s policies directly result in mass murderer’s getting a free pass, it becomes very hard for him to claim to be putting America’s security first.
He’ll say the words but does he really think anyone will believe him?
I hope the families of the 9/11 and USS Cole attacks show Mein Fuhrer every bit the courtesy he has shown the office of the president and them.
I hope they treat him with the same respect the left had treated President Bush.
I hope they practice the freedom of speech the left so dearly embraces.
Learning a lesson from Bill Clinton’s incompetent administration (reference Mogadishu and the later disastrous CMOH ceremonie), Dear Leader is trying to cover all his bases and “manage” the military brass better than Clinton did.
This just in…
Obama appoints Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri as head of Homeland Security. The good news is that he’s current on his taxes.
That clinches it! I’m going to Rush’s site and buying his new T-shirt “When we were safe” right now!
Michelle, the Navy link is a 404. I recommend this one. If you scroll down a bit it has pics and basic info on all 17 of the Sailors who died that day.
Wait,
The Bush administration held up charging and trying this guy for 7 years, and now a delay of a few months for them to recharge and try him under whatever system Obama decides is appropriate(which is what is going to happen, people. He is not being, nor will he ever be, released) is a travesty of justice?
My thoughts are that PBO and the sheep in congress, the senate, and their overlords in hollywood will continue championing this warped philosophy.
Then…in about two years, some sort of attack will happen. Could be at a mall, a subway, a sporting event. This would signal the end. PBO and Co will attempt some sort of martial law which will lead to civil unrest.
This will be the end of the Democrat party.
I hope these idiots get their sense, but then again, we are dealing with people who do not know the reality.
As it concerns national security, this is not a matter for civilian courts; to do so reduces the military to police officer status. Leave this in the hands of the military – they protect us, they know what they’re doing.
Keep it up B Hussein, you could be the first president to be impeached and tried for treason.
This idiot turns liberal rhetoric, foolish talking points, into reality.
Obama is going to get Americans killed.
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CALLING JACK BAUER! We’ve got a little clean up job we would like you to get started on–pronto.
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Yes–TERMINATION WITH REALLY EXTREME PREJUDICE is O.K. The target will be leaving GITMO soon.
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Just dreaming again.
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That’s the spirit! Treat terrorists like parking violators. You betcha lgm, good call. After all – the Clinton administration did it and all it cost us was 3000 lives. What fun! Let’s have a lottery and bet on which US city is going to sprout smoking craters because the US showed the world we cut off our own cajones.
Don’t like it? Reality too mean for you? Tough. Tell this guy. Explain to him how he should feel better because our spineless president wants to coddle terrorists
You all are missing the fact that there were NO foreign terrorist attacks against US property or on US soil. You have all been mislead.
Any so-called terrorist attacks were all just a conspiracy by the evil Bush administration and these innocent men who are being held in Gitmo were just unfortunate pawns for the Bush New World Order.
If Bush was able to get explosives into the top of the World Trade Center towers then by god he was able to blow a hole in the side of one of our ships. I bet the USS Cole wasnt even a real warship anyway. It was probably just a Hollywood prop.
Thank goodness Obama has been able to see through all of this. (And never let a timeline or facts get in the way of a good conspiracy.)
And never let a good headline (”Charges Dropped!!!”) get in the way of the facts of a story. This was purely a procedural move to get all cases in compliance with Obama’s order to suspend trials until he has reviewed the procedures under which they are being tried.
This man is not being released.
This man will be tried.
This man will be convicted.
This man will never see freedom.
I will bet FamilyMan’s paycheck on this.
I appreciate your optimism, chappy. I hope you’re right. Really, I do.
All of this can be simplified, however. Some time back, folks on the left were banging the Geneva Conventions drum. Maybe the reason they don’t anymore is they came to grips with what Geneva calls for, dealing with non-uniformed combatants against our military. That particular solution would put all this current nonsense to bed. Anyone, in civilian clothes, engaged in hostilities against us, according to Geneva, is a spy. Spies may be summarily shot. And that works for me.
Now, whether or not the American public has the stomach for taking all remaining “guests” at Gitmo and lining them up against a wall, who knows. I do know one thing – it would send a pretty strong statement – and image – abroad. And we could do it within Geneva guidelines.
But that’s never going to happen. We’ll never apply Geneva that way. We’ll only apply it to us and how we treat non-signatories to it. We now want people to like us – as they kill us. But it’s an option.
Please note, McCarthy opened up his piece by castigating the insubordinate judge in the Nashiri case.
While O is responsible for this, it will be fairly easy for them to pin the blame on the insubordinate judge.
Yes, those 3,000 Americans are really still alive and the planes flying into the Trade Center Towers, piloted by Bush and Cheney personally, were just holograms.
Your name says it all. Thanks for the comic relief!
Nothing will happen to this POS. The Democrats couldn’t care less about terrorism unless perpetrated by a white American non-Muslim male and couldn’t care at all about the military. Obama is going to make Bill Clinton look like a bloodthirsty hawk by comparison.
Father Of USS Cole Victim Refuses to Meet With Obama
From:
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/196234.php
Gary G. Swenchonis, Sr., who’s son, Gary G. Swenchonis, Jr., was killed on the USS Cole is pretty pissed that the Obama administration has suspended the trial of one of his son’s murderers. He was on his way to Guantanamo when he learned that the trial of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri had been suspended on recommendation of the White House:
While my family, myself and a good majority of Americans are wondering how can the Military Commissions Tribunals which were approved by congress can be overturned a by a President who does not agree with them. That’s not a democracy. That’s more like how President Saleh in Yemen acted after our son’s killers were tried in their courts. Saleh intervened for the killers and Al-Qaeda and then reduced their sentences, and pardoned others. And had the other Cole Bombers tried on unrelated charges, and then freed. As victims we had hoped that our own government would show us a little more respect. Wrong!
Read the rest here, and remember to drop Gary a line in the comments.
Av8tr #64: Thank you for defining what the Geneva Convention determines for the capture, detention and punishment for non-uniformed combatants engaged in battle with uniformed soldiers. I have no problem with lining them up and doing the do. Our President needs to send a strong message to radical Islamists that we will not succumb to their theology, but I am afraid that will not happen. When Islamists see headlines like this, they propagandize it to show they are winning the war on terror. Get armed, everyone.
In the mean time and on the home front, PillOsee is seeking to charge Bush with war crimes. I hear BHo is listening.
Best figure out how to get your hand on that check and get out of FamilyMan’s house without sprouting .45 caliber ventilation holes – because YOU LOSE.
Why? Because Bill Clinton screwed you. He, through the stupidity of Jamie Gorelic, put up a wall between the FBI and the CIA. Thanks to Jamie Gorelic information obtained by the CIA cannot be entered into evidence.
Why do you think that they’ve been held on Gitmo? Because of the road blocks to justice put in place by the Clinton Administration.
I guarantee you that Obama’s administration will release every single one of them then pat themselves on the back and spout meaningless platitudes about human dignity while every one of them goes back to slaughtering innocent men women and children.
I also guarantee you that you and lgm will be back here defending them and Obama.
I remember back to Clinton’s first few weeks in office and I thought I would never see a worse example of cheap theatrics and confusion.
I was wrong. Obambi has exceeded the confusion, lying and theatrics of Clinton and surpassed him with the greatest theft of all time in the form of a “stimulus” bill.
I cannot believe the changes in this country over the last 21 years.
By what standard?
On February 6th, 2009 at 5:09 pm, PKAmmoTroop said:
Nope. There is no wall. Re-read the document again and you find that there is an opportunity to share information. There are just strict requirements to do so.
More importantly, where is the nexus of the information the FBU has crosses the information the CIA has?
Tick. Tick. Tick.
If you do not know, say so.
Tick. Tick. Tick.
Oh, yes it does.
Tick. Tick. Tick.
OK. The answer is the Oval office at 1600 Pennsylvannia Avenue.
The President gets all the info from both the FBI and the CIA. Yep, you can connect the dots of a single person getting medical care in Iraq and support for terrorism, but the dots can not be connected between what the FBI is saying and what the CIA is saying?
Nope. It is because the Bush Administration tapped danced in and around conventionally accepted existing treaties, like the Geneva Convention. Having established that the Jihadis at Guantanamo were ‘enemy combatants’ and not subject to the Geneva Conventions, they failed and/or dilly dallied about a process to handle the Jihadists.
ROFLMAO.
The number of Jihadis released under pres Bush. ‘61′ plus.
The number of Jihadis released by Pres Obama. ZERO.
And, since we are speculating as to what Pres Obama will do –
I guarantee that Pres Obama will serve Colt 45, watermelon and fried chicken at State Dinners.
I doubt either of our guarantees will come to past.
OH, and how many Jihadists that were released by Pres Bush returned to the battlefield? Too many.
And, how many Jihadists that were released by Pres Obama returned to the battlefield? ZERO.
And, what are the chances of getting an intellectually honest response from you. Priceless.
Only one correction: Several months ago, I volunteered that if anyone was to waterboard me, I would turn in my grandmother with photographic evidence that she alone piloted both planes into the WTC towers.