Holder: Bin Laden Won’t Be Captured Alive

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eric_holder_1Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress today that Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive. In testy exchanges with House Republicans, the attorney general compared bin Laden to mass murderer Charles Manson and predicted that events would ensure “we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden” not to the al-Qaida leader as a captive.Holder sternly rejected criticism from GOP members of a House Appropriations subcommittee, who contend it is too dangerous to put terror suspects on trial in federal civilian courts as Holder has proposed.

The attorney general said it infuriates him to hear conservative critics complain that terrorists would get too many rights in the court system.

Terrorists in court “have the same rights that Charles Manson would have, any other kind of mass murderer,” the attorney general said. “It doesn’t mean that they’re going to be coddled, it doesn’t mean that they’re going to be treated with kid gloves.”

The comparison to convicted killer Manson angered Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, who said it showed the Obama administration doesn’t understand the American public’s desire to treat terrorists as wartime enemies, not criminal defendants.

“My constituents and I just have a deep-seated and profound philosophical difference with the Obama administration,” Culberson said.

Holder, his voice rising, charged that Culberson’s arguments ignored basic facts about the law and the fight against terrorists.

“Let’s deal with reality,” Holder said. Bin Laden “will never appear in an American courtroom.”

Pressed further on that point, Holder said: “The possibility of catching him alive is infinitesimal. He will be killed by us or he will be killed by his own people so he can’t be captured by us.”

Much of the hearing centered around the Obama administration’s stalled plan to put the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the professed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on trial. Last year, Holder announced the trial would take place in federal civilian court in New York City, not far from the site of the destroyed World Trade Center.

In the face of resistance from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other local politicians, that plan was shelved and the White House is now considering putting KSM and four alleged co-conspirators into a military commission trial.

Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., bemoaned what he called a “cowardly” desire to avoid a civilian terror trial in a major city.

If a terrorist had killed thousands of Philadelphians, Fattah said, “we would expect him to come to Philadelphia” to face trial “if he would live long enough.”

“It doesn’t befit a great nation to hesitate or equivocate on the question of following our own laws,” he said.

{Examiner/Noam Amdurski-Matzav.com Newscenter}


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  1. I sure hope Obama oops, Osama never appears in a US Court Room! Imagine another 9/11 (well, it really depends on what date he shows up in court!)
    And, Obama, yes, I want him in a Court Room. I want to see his REAL Birth Certificate. Not his COLB which means nothing!

  2. Someone tell Eric Holder bin Laden has been DEAD FOR YEARS.

    FOXNEWS.COM Report: Bin Laden Already Dead Wednesday, December 26, 2001 http://tinyurl.com/mfs8y

    The US FBI’s counter-terrorism chief, Dale Watson, says he thinks Osama bin Laden is “probably” dead. Thursday, 18 July, 2002
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2135473.stm

    Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said Osama bin Laden is “probably” dead: Monday, October 7, 2002
    http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/10/06/karzai.binladen/

    CNN reported a magazine runs what it calls bin Laden’s will: Saturday, October 26, 2002
    http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/10/26/binladen.will/

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