It is infuriating to see some officials acting as if they can get away with insulting the intelligence of the whole world simply by using emotional blackmail over the 09/11 incident which now seems less tragic in comparison with what has been unleashed on the world since then.
"Tortured 9/11 suspect may never be prosecuted: Pentagon official," is the headline on Yahoo! News today. While making such chilling and uncivilized statemenets as that "sustained isolation, sleep deprivation, nudity and prolonged exposure to cold" are all authorized "interrogation procedures," Ms. Susan Crawford tries to become a champion of human rights by stating that in the case of the alleged "20th Hijacker of 09/11", these techniques were stretched a bit too far and therefore she has decided, oh so benevolently, that the "suspect" should not be brought to trial!
Can we think of a greater insult to intelligence? Rather than admitting that after prolonged captivity and torture, and after ransacking half of the civilized world (arguably, all of which may now be seen as lying outside the US), the US authorities have failed to bring any shred of evidence in an important case related to 09/11? Incidentally, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui will also not be tried but, we are supposed to believe, for a different reason.
The pattern is becoming clearer: Pick them up and build hype in the media, grab some more oil wells, confiscate some more land from an Asian country, and then release the victim. Case dismissed, hope the world will forget.
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Aafia Siddiqui who post-911 was the operative who married Al-Balucchi, right? ... the guy who KSM sent to UAE to help the hijackers get in the US, right?
So while the absence of transparency in jailing and prosecuting her is outrageous, she is in fact an Al Qaeda operative, correct?
We can only know that after these things are proven in a court of law. None of them have even been brought up in a court of law.
I thought you might like to know that her trial is set for january 19, 2010 on Tuesday.
I have a strange feeling that this case is not at all as it seems. Complicated and strange characterize it.
More questions than answers really.
Although we can not reject the notion of perfectly nice and educated women becoming terrorists, nevertheless, térror is not what she is on trial for.
The government of Pakistan and the police and intelligence services should be ashamed of themselves for extraditing a woman without evidence.
And the whereabouts of her two kids is still unknown.
This case is so unpleasent and I strongly hope truth will prevail along with Justice.
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