America’s glaring double standard on terror:
Why the Tsarnaev conviction is another black eye for Gitmo
“Did the use of pressure cooker bombs,” the jury in the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial was asked in several different ways on Wednesday afternoon, “cause the death of Martin Richard?”
“Yes,” the jury declared Tsarnaev’s guilt in the murder of Richard, the 8-year old boy watching the race from the finish line killed in Tsarnaev’s attack on the Boston Marathon two years ago. “Yes,” the jury said, over and over. The jury gave the same response when asked about Tsarnaev’s responsibility for killing Lingzi Lu, a Boston University statistics student; Krystle Campbell, a 29-year old restaurant manager; and Sean Collier, an MIT cop, all of whom he and his brother killed. The jury found Tsarnaev guilty of all 30 counts against him.
The trial will now move into a sentencing phase where the jury decides whether Tsarnaev should be executed for his role in the biggest terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.
Now just imagine a similar process, had a jury called out Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s guilt in the murder of each of 2,976 people on Sept. 11, 2001.
“Anna Williams Allison; David Lawrence Angell; Lynn Edwards Angell,” the indictment filed against KSM and four others in New York in 2009 started its list of the 2,976 people KSM murdered. “Olga Kristin Gould White,” the long list ended. “Guilty,” a jury would surely have found KSM and his co-conspirators, of the mass murder he has always admitted. Guilty, 2,976 times, plus the larger conspiracy to attack the U.S.
Of course, that never happened. Under pressure from Congress and New York politicians, the administration gave up its efforts to try the 9/11 attackers in civilian court in 2011, moving their trial back to the military commissions at Guantánamo Bay just over four years ago.
And in those four years, the trial against the perpetrators of that massive attack, committed more than 13 years ago, has gone nowhere.
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