Wednesday, May 11, 2011

The Mastermind of 9/11

“The mastermind of 9/11, Osama bin Laden, has been killed in Pakistan,” says Obama
The FBI most wanted poster, listing the crimes for which he was wanted, made no mention of the 9/11 attacks. The poster says Osama Bin Laden was wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998 bombing of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. These attacks killed over 200 people. In addition, Bin Laden is suspect in other terrorist attacks through the world. The poster offered a reward of $25 million from the U.S. State Department for information leading directly to his capture or conviction. An additional $2 million was offered by the Airline Pilots Association and the Air Transportation Association. The FBI explained that 9/11 was not mentioned because "the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.”
The FBI gathers evidence. The Department of Justice than decides whether it has enough evidence to present to a federal grand jury. In the case of the 1998 United States Embassies being bombed, Bin Laden has been formally indicted and charged by a grand jury. He has not been formally indicted and charged in connection with 9/11 because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.
President Bush declared. "Dead or alive, it doesn't matter to me." For Obama it did matter. Obama wanted Osama dead. He could have been taken alive by the Navy SEALs who confronted the unarmed terrorist in his penthouse apartment. Instead, he was shot to death and his body quickly disposed of because Obama has made it impossible to bring Osama to trial in civilian criminal court in New York or at a military trial in Guantanamo. His inept fumbling, condemnatory and contradictory statements about Guantanamo, torture and military tribunals have made it impossible to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed the real mastermind of 9/11 to trial.

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