NEW YORK - Jurors on Tuesday (click here) begin deliberating the fate of a former Al Qaeda spokesman portrayed by
lawyers as either a hardened terrorist buoyed by the Sept. 11, 2001,
attacks or an innocent cleric accidentally drawn into Osama bin Laden's
orbit....
The defense attorneys don't actually expect any sane person to believe this guy was an unwilling participant, do they? It sounds like an ethical issue to me, but, "The Anything Defense" might work. Who knows? Stranger things have happened......Then again, maybe not.
The defense attorneys don't actually expect any sane person to believe this guy was an unwilling participant, do they? It sounds like an ethical issue to me, but, "The Anything Defense" might work. Who knows? Stranger things have happened......Then again, maybe not.
"This man was not Osama bin Laden's puppet," said Cronan, an assistant U.S. attorney, as he pointed his finger at Abu Ghaith. "He was not a robot."
Instead, Cronan said, Abu Ghaith was a high-ranking Al Qaeda leader who was summoned to Bin Laden's cave in the mountains outside Kabul, Afghanistan, on the evening of Sept. 11, 2001. There, Abu Ghaith was asked to deliver a rousing speech heralding the killings and urging young Muslims to stage more attacks, Cronan said....
I suppose if I were a defense attorney for an al Qaeda member I wouldn't worry about ethical issues either. I wonder what they are getting paid. Public defender wages with body guards as an employee benefit.
