Al Qaida gets 8 years

Dear Mr. Mihm, and by extension, Mr. Obama for his assistance:

When Marri gets out of prison in less than 8 years, and fulfills his life goal of killing anyone who opposes his Islamo-fascist ideology - you are responsible.

No, it is not the government who will be responsible due to their treatment of Marri - keeping him awake, playing loud music, moving him from place to place, threatening his family ... no, that is not who we are, we do not blame others when the blame is clear as to where it belongs - on you.

You will have the blood of every man, woman and child murdered by Marri, on your hands.  You will have to live with that until you stand before your maker and answer for your actions.  And here is a hint for you - our maker does not negotiate based on what you claim as precedence, given this precedence as politically correct with a new administration, and not something universally accepted let alone historically understood.

The blood he spills will be on your hands, along with the blood of every other killer you release, due to horrible conditions experienced.  I think there is an explanation for your decision and it does not rest with the facts, but rather with politics.

What do you consider being buried alive, burned alive, beheaded with a butter knife?  Oh, but we are not that people - no, we have shown our weakness Mr. Mihm, and that will encourage more killers.  What you and of course Mr. Obama fail to udnerstand is, there is a distinction, and one must understand its existence, between the laws that govern civilized man - those who live within the rules of man, and those who do not.  Until you recognize the difference, we are doomed.  The only thing that may save us, is that there are men who will do what is necessary regardless of your foolishness.  Without these 'rough men' as Churchill called them, you would be dispensing Islamic justice from your bench.







Al Qaeda sleeper agent gets 8 years, not 15 as prosecutors had sought


Ali Marri gets a lighter sentence in consideration of 'very severe' conditions under which he was kept during the almost six years he was held without charges in a U.S. Navy brig in South Carolina.


Associated Press
October 30, 2009


Peoria, Ill. - A federal judge sentenced an Al Qaeda "sleeper" agent to eight years in prison Thursday -- about half the time prosecutors had requested -- because the agent received what the judge called "unacceptable" treatment in a U.S. Navy brig.

U.S. District Judge Michael Mihm could have sentenced Ali Marri to as much as 15 years. Prosecutors had endorsed that, presenting testimony that he remained a threat.

But Mihm handed down the lighter sentence of eight years and four months in consideration of what he called "very severe" conditions under which Marri was kept during the almost six years he was held without charges in a U.S. Navy brig in South Carolina.

Those conditions included sensory deprivation, lengthy interrogations, long periods of isolation and threats to harm his family.

The judge's decision could be a factor in future cases because the United States still holds more than 200 people without charge at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. If convicted, they could argue that their time in custody should be considered at sentencing.

A tearful Marri told the judge he was sorry for helping Al Qaeda and would never hurt anyone. But Mihm rejected the idea that Marri wasn't capable of violence.

"I believe based on everything that I have heard that you truly do not regret what you did and that you would do it again after you go home," Mihm said.

But in a stinging critique of government interrogation techniques, the judge also said he would reduce Marri's sentence.

"My personal belief as a judge is that that was totally unacceptable," Mihm said. "That's not who we are."

Marri, 44 and a native of Qatar, pleaded guilty in May to conspiring to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization.

Prosecutors have 10 days to appeal the sentence.

Marri admitted he trained in Al Qaeda camps and stayed in Al Qaeda safe houses in Pakistan from 1998 to 2001. He also acknowledged having regular contact with Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the man whom the government said was the mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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