Al-Arian walk watch: "Defense Wants Statements Blocked," from the Tampa Tribune, with thanks to Teri:
TAMPA - A Sami Al-Arian co-defendant wants statements from more than 100 unindicted alleged co-conspirators blocked from use in the defendants' upcoming trial.Those statements are hearsay unless the government proves the people were part of a criminal conspiracy and that the statements advanced that conspiracy, wrote M. Allison Guagliardo, an attorney representing Hatim Naji Fariz.
Al-Arian and Fariz are scheduled to go on trial May 16, along with Sameeh Hammoudeh and Ghassan Zayed Ballut, on charges they helped organize and finance the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist organization that has claimed responsibility for numerous suicide bombings in Israel....
Guagliardo wrote that the government should have to prove that the Palestinian Islamic Jihad was responsible for suicide bombings and other attacks. It is not enough, she maintained, that the organization issued statements claiming responsibility.
``Claims may be made for purposes of boasting, political posturing, and any number of other motives, or they may even be based on mistaken information,'' she wrote.
But they certainly show the beliefs and priorities of the organization making them, no?
Internet Toolbox for Islam-critics:
http://www.apostatesofislam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=661
News about Islam:
http://www.apostatesofislam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=650
Morning all!
Today’s Extras:
How would Americans react to Terror?:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/dp20050426.shtml
American Border Secrets (Or: where the ALCU stands):
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17842
More on the hate-fest in Boca Raton:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17849
The story we do Not hear from Iraq:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuestColumns/Humphries20050425.shtml
The distinction between education and indoctrination:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17621
Gotta Run!
CAn you get a just verdict if a muslim is on the jury?
Can you put a taqiyya artist on the stand?
Do the dhimmie prosecuters know about taqiyya?
Is truth excempt from hate speech laws
4 questions one answer
Rikki~ Long time no see! Welcome back.
"Claims may be made for purposes of boasting, political posturing, and any number of other motives, or they may even be based on mistaken information," she wrote.
Does this mean that any confession is void and the prosecution still has to prove its case? Does this mean that Bin laden's taped boasting planning of the 9/11 attack, has no validity in court?
if you ask anyone going thru a trial and lost or were afraid of losing they would tell you that they did not or could not get a fair trial.
they would also tell you that blacks were racially profiled when picked up, muslims are insulted when caught at doing what they think they are supposed to be able to do, whites are looked at last and hardest because it takes more proof to convict them.
so what is the big deal?? someone got caught and now they want all the evidence against them thrown out of court.
pure and simple
Ali Dashti, thanks for the Toolbox website-very informative!