US court drops charges against Osama | Dawn

[Last Hope]

NEW YORK: A US federal judge has formally dismissed a series of indictments against Osama bin Laden that had remained pending against him, at the request of the US district attorney’s office which formally confirmed Bin Laden’s capture and killing.

The charges were originally brought against Al Qaeda leader more than a decade ago.

Judge Lewis J. Kaplan of United States District Court on Friday ordered the charges dismissed at the request of Preet Bahara, the attorney for the Southern District of New York, who signed the request on Thursday. The original indictment, returned secretly in 1998, was sought at a time when the authorities were considering a plan to capture Bin Laden and bring him to Manhattan for trial.

The charges dismissed include conspiracy to kill Americans, murder and charges related to the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in East Africa, which killed 224 people.

The government also filed a declaration by George Z. Toscas, deputy assistant attorney general for counter-terrorism and counter-espionage in the national security division of the Justice Department, describing its proof that Bin Laden was dead.

They included a comparison of DNA samples from Bin Laden’s body with a profile based on samples collected from members of his family, which provided a genetic match, Mr Toscas wrote. “The possibility of a mistaken identification is approximately one in 11.8 quadrillion,” he noted.


Drama? What the.. ?? What next?? The truth?? OBL didnt host 9/11??

 

[Stealth IFV]

I think the theme here is that Osama is a small fish compared to the folks in charge of hiding him and fighting for him in his chain of command. Plus he is dead.

 

[Respect4Respect01]

I think the theme here is that Osama is a small fish compared to the folks in charge of hiding him and fighting for him in his chain of command. Plus he is dead.

gimme some proof that hes dead

 

[Leader]

I think the theme here is that Osama is a small fish compared to the folks in charge of hiding him and fighting for him in his chain of command. Plus he is dead.

yeah I never thought you guys declared Hitler "innocent" !!

 

[Juice]

gimme some proof that hes dead

Lol, he's NOT dead, he is alive and well and living in your basement!

 

[Juice]

yeah I never thought you guys declared Hitler innocent !!

We didn't declare him innocent, we closed the case, kinda hard to prosecute a dead guy.

 

[Leader]

Lol, he's NOT dead, he is alive and well and living in your basement!

on a serious note, do you guys hold any legal charges of 911 against him ? or have your courts considered him guilty of the crimes alleged at him or his organization ??

 

[Juice]

on a serious note, do you guys hold any legal charges of 911 against him ? or have your courts considered him guilty of the crimes alleged at him or his organization ??

Not sure, I will check and post later.

 

[Leader]

We didn't declare him innocent, we closed the case, kinda hard to prosecute a dead guy.

closed the case and continued the hate ! keep it up !!

 

[Leader]

We didn't declare him innocent, we closed the case, kinda hard to prosecute a dead guy.

or maybe a trial in the international court of justice, would also be appreciated...

 

[secularbuster]

I think the theme here is that Osama is a small fish compared to the folks in charge of hiding him and fighting for him in his chain of command. Plus he is dead.

kayani and his friends were hiding OBL.

 

[TaimiKhan]

kayani and his friends were hiding OBL.

Can you kindly provide us the proof ??

Don't tell us that since he was living in Pakistan, thus he was being protected.

As with that argument we can say, since the 19 hijackers were in US for a long time and got their pilot training in US, thus US was behind the 9/11.

 

[TaimiKhan]

We didn't declare him innocent, we closed the case, kinda hard to prosecute a dead guy.

What was the hard thing to prosecute when he was alive ??

Don't say we needed OBL alive to be in the court room, as he would have said NO to the accusations and as for proof, he was not needed to be in the court as neither finger prints were needed, nor DNA testing was needed to link him to 9/11.

All it was needed was intelligence proof that he had done it or gave orders or whatever.

He could have been tried in absentia and world would have seen the evidence, even if it had been forged one like the Iraq WMD case.

In ten years, he is not proved to be guilty in any court or evidence presented to the world.

 

[twoplustwoisfour]

What was the hard thing to prosecute when he was alive ??

Don't say we needed OBL alive to be in the court room, as he would have said NO to the accusations and as for proof, he was not needed to be in the court as neither finger prints were needed, nor DNA testing was needed to link him to 9/11.

All it was needed was intelligence proof that he had done it or gave orders or whatever.

He could have been tried in absentia and world would have seen the evidence, even if it had been forged one like the Iraq WMD case.

In ten years, he is not proved to be guilty in any court or evidence presented to the world.

Contrary to your beliefs, every court has an obligation to give a chance to the defendent to present his case. In fact, how can you prosecute a guy who is not even in your custody?

 

[secularbuster]

Can you kindly provide us the proof ??

Don't tell us that since he was living in Pakistan, thus he was being protected.

As with that argument we can say, since the 19 hijackers were in US for a long time and got their pilot training in US, thus US was behind the 9/11.

Those 19 hijackers did not have a bounty on their heads the way OBL had, so your logic isn't very convincing. kayani, Pasha and Mr. Ten Percent are clearly incompetent if they did not know that OBL had been hiding there of five years.