veiled4allah: Moussaoui veiled4allah: MoussaouiIsikoff's analysis: 1. When Moussaoui was captured, there was some thought that he was centrally involved in the 9-11 plot.As for the verdict itself (life in prison), I think it was the right one. Being too
2. Later it was discovered that he wasn't.
3. It was decided to put him on trial anyway, because we needed someone to try.
4. The central plotters (other than bin Laden) are all in U.S. custody, but they haven't been tried and won't be tried.
5. Top people on the President's staff (Gonzales) and the Vice President's staff (Addington) decided to authorize waterboarding and related methods of "aggressive interrogation" as applied to the top plotters.
6. Having tortured them, the Administration can't now put them on trial without having their defense lawyers put the facts about their maltreatment on the official record.
First, he's as crazy as a shithouse rat. Most of what he said was bullshit of the highest order, designed to provoke the death penalty and ensure he died a martyr in the hands of the evil US. Second, he was in custody when 9/11 happened and knowledge does not mean action. Murdering him would have been revenge.
Third, with no state sanctioned murder, no protests, no calls for clemency, no Bush reveling in blood lust, no years of debate on his mental health, no Supreme Court case.
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