U.S. officially drop all charges against Osama bin Laden
Issued 'nolle prosque' order - meaning do not prosecute - typical once a defendant is deceased
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 10:21 PM on 17th June 2011
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2004914/U-S-officially-drop-charges-Osama-bin-Laden.html
A U.S. judge has dismissed all criminal charges against Osama bin Laden following the al Qaeda leader's death in a military raid in Pakistan.
U.S. District Court judge Lewis Kaplan, who had been presiding over the bin Laden case in Manhattan federal court, issued an order called 'nolle prosequi', which means 'do not prosecute' in Latin, a typical legal move once a defendant is deceased.
It closed the case after 13 years.
Bin Laden was indicted back in 1998 in the Southern District of New York for his role in the al Qaeda attack on the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, which killed more than 200 people, including a dozen Americans.
The indictment was later revised to charge bin Laden in the dual bombings of two American embassies in East Africa that killed 224 on August 7, 1998, and in the suicide attack on the USS Cole in 2000. None of the charges involved the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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none of the charges...
None of the charges involved the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
yeah
the way it reads, you'd think they are just figuring that out for the first time.......... just a passing factoid with no tangible significance. Morons.
Related -
Treasure hunter searches for Osama bin Laden's body
http://911blogger.com/news/2011-06-18/treasure-hunter-searches-osama-bin-ladens-body
maybe we can get them to
maybe we can get them to answer our FOIA requests now, it would be harder for them to say "we cannot release this information as it is an ongoing inquest".
Maybe someone can contact the deputy of Hon. Judge Kaplan
and ask him, if he saw any of the alleged evidence cited by Lewin?
http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/judge/Kaplan
I'm especially interested in the original dna analysis results and testing unpublished yet.
The statement said: 'The possibility of a mistaken identification is approximately one in 11.8 quadrillion.'
Lewin then provides evidence that bin Laden was actually killed in the raid, including the confirmation of his identity by DNA analysis and facial recognition analysis, eyewitness confirmation by one of bin Laden's wives, video of bin Laden found in the Abbottabad compound and the 'significant quantity' of other al Qaeda material seized by U.S. Navy Seals during last month's raid.
That's the same non-evidence we have to believe in as day one.
Explanation(?) for why OBL was not charged with 911
I was talking to a facebook "friend" of a friend about why OBL was not officially charged or accused of involvement with 911. His take on it was roughly this. The FBI and DOJ has consciously refrained from making charges of involvement in 911 against OBL, so that *if* OBL was captured alive the US could have made use if military tribunals which would be preferred for the government since they could more easily get the "correct" verdict and without the fuzz.
Is this a reasonable explanation? He promised some links where this argument was made but did not deliver.
Comments appreciated!
Don't see much in this argument
In this lawless system we now have, I think if the US government wants to try someone by military tribunals, they're going to do so, whether or not those apprehended have been indicted. The attitude would likely be, 'Thanks, prosecutors, but we'll take it from here.' Your friend also seems to think that the US really wanted to have Bin Laden captured and in their custody. But does anyone really think the US was interested in having him tried either way--a real trial or a military-tribunal mock trial? The saying 'wanted dead or alive' isn't quite right. What the US government wanted with Bin Laden was more like 'dead or at large.'
And why does your friend think they needed to take such steps around the law in order to get the 'correct' verdict? Is that a tacit admission that he thinks the potential case against him might not have been very strong?
The proof of the death of Osama bin Laden
Quote:
“According to ABC, after reciting Bin Laden's multiple aliases and then listing the counts against him for ten pages, Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas Lewin noted: 'On or about May 1, 2011, while this case was still pending, defendant Usama Bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in the course of an operation conducted by the United St
Lewin then provides evidence that bin Laden was actually killed in the raid, including the confirmation of his identity by DNA analysis and facial recognition analysis, eyewitness confirmation by one of bin Laden's wives, video of bin Laden found in the Abbottabad compound and the 'significant quantity' of other al Qaeda material seized by U.S. Navy Seals during last month's raid.”
it would have been necessary that the proofs are examined by experts that the judge would have designated:
DNA analysis
Videos:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/228230-Exclusive-Osama-bin-Laden-s-Nose-and-Left-Ear
http://www.economicvoice.com/pentagon-released-bin-laden-home-video-possible-fake/50019842#axzz1Q563Dg8g
Facial recognition analysis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB1TeTEe6bU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J74tHn5hDJg
Cbsnews reported that “SEAL helmet cams recorded entire bin Laden raid”:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/12/eveningnews/main20062410.shtml
Related here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/al-qaeda/8520071/Osama-bin-Laden-raid-Blow-by-blow-account-of-the-mission-that-n...
What are the people who were allowed to watch the recording of these cameras, which should show Osama bin Laden before it was killed.
Was the FBI authorized to examine all these proofs?
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/may/binladen_050211