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Team Obama wins mercy for a sponsor of jihad terrorism

Aug 24, 2015 10:52 pm By Robert Spencer

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Madness. But of course, madness rules the day. “Team Obama wins mercy for a sponsor of terrorism,” New York Post, August 24, 2015:

Back in February, a Manhattan federal jury sent a critical message about holding the perpetrators of terror responsible: It found the Palestinian Authority liable for six attacks and assessed $218.5 million in damages.

But on Monday, thanks to Team Obama, that message was all but obliterated. After an unusual intercession by the State and Justice departments, the judge hearing the case ordered the PA to post $10 million cash plus another $1 million a month as a bond while the case is appealed.

That’s a far cry from the $30 million a month the victorious plaintiffs had sought. And it’s a pittance next to what most other defendants would have to post.

The jurors held the PA responsible for attacks from 2002 to 2004 that killed 33 and wounded 400 others.

The plaintiffs — 10 US families directly affected by the terrorism — showed that the PA employed the perps and made payments to suicide bombers’ families.

The usual appeals bond is 111 percent of the verdict — which in this case would be $655 million, since the amount is tripled under the 1992 US Anti-Terrorism Act.

But the administration pushed Judge George Daniels not to hit the PA too hard for fear it might collapse and endanger “a two-state solution” to the Middle East conflict.

So Daniels wound up assessing exactly what the PA said it could pay. That token amount probably won’t even cut into the PA’s subsidy of convicted terrorists — payments one official likened to “Social Security.”…

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  1. Champ says

    Aug 24, 2015 at 11:18 pm

    obama’s legacy >> SUPPORT TERRORISM!

    • Huck Folder says

      Aug 25, 2015 at 1:13 am

      Wow, that’s a no-holds-barred article at the New York Post.

    • Dr. Divinity says

      Aug 25, 2015 at 11:34 am

      Once again Obama administration reaching the pinnacle of stupidity.

    • nicu says

      Aug 25, 2015 at 1:45 pm

      Once a Muslim always a Muslim !

      Putin was right : Obama is not interested in its own people or stop ISIL !

      • Zackman says

        Aug 26, 2015 at 1:42 am

        It must really make the racists, bigoted, klansman pieces of crap mad that we have a president that is truly interested in peace for the middle east instead of a president that is only interested in maintaining western hegemony.

        video is nothing than an attack piece from the racists and bigots in America and STILL can’t accept the cold-hard fact that a black man is President of the United States. that all this is, was and ever will be. People who don’t like Obama’s way of governing don’t care about this.Reflexive knee jerk of a far right reactionary who hates that America has elected a blackman as president.

        Judging by the fact that the Dow has tripled during his administration, I would have to say he’s the worst communist ever.

        If he wanted to destroy America he’s taking his time and doing a lousy job of that too. All leading economic indicators are positive. The only perspective in which he’s doing a bad job is through the crap colored glasses of Fox news.

        -Barack Obama is NOT a Muslim and even if he was, doesn’t matter.

        -Barack Obama is NOT Anti – American.

        -Barack Obama is NOT a Marxist. in fact, one should understand the concept of Marxism before posing such a question.

        -Barack Obama is NOT a homosexual. Those making such claims are now grasping at straws.

        -Barack Obama is NOT a traitor, though those that continually denigrate and defame the Standing President of The United States have a touch of treason in them.

        -Barack Obama is NOT a communist. Again, one must understand the concept before posing such a question.

        -Barack Obama could be impeached. Any President could be. But none could be impeached by some pinheads

        -Barack Obama is NOT destroying America. The constant hate and derision is destroying America.

  2. Moshe Akiva says

    Aug 24, 2015 at 11:25 pm

    The sad pat of this is that the money the victim’s families will get (if any) comes from the American taxpayers, who are ever so eager to finance Muslim terror groups, like the PA. And the more the families get, the more the American taxpayers will pay because at the end of the day the PA will get the money it required from the US government.

    Meanwhile, since 1970 or 1971 every money the UN sent for Molestinian refugees went through the hand of Arafat. We don’t know how much, but he stole from it each year. The PLO has holdings, real-estate in every North African and Middle Eastern, as well as most European countries. That money is untouchable, no one even talks about that. Total taboo.

    Somehow that money should be taken away from the murderous sons of bitches.

  3. Linde Barrera says

    Aug 25, 2015 at 12:02 am

    I wonder if President Obama could be impeached for this. I honestly do not know. But aiding and abetting a terrorist organization that killed Americans seems like treason to me, and treason is an impeachable offense if the treason relates to the official duties of the president. But since he had 2 front groups, i.e. the State Department and the Dept. of Justice do his bidding, would this cloud the impeachment issue? As I am not a lawyer, I don’t know what the ramifications are. But according to one website I researched, there are 5 elected officials in Congress who would entertain the idea of impeaching President Obama. They are: Michele Bachman, Minnesota-Republican, for “thuggery”; Steve Stockman, Texas-Republican, “to defend the Constitution is my job”; Paul Broun, Georgia-Repub., “for Obamacare and Benghazi”; James Inhofe, Oklahoma-Repub., “for Benghazi”; and John McCain, Arizona-Repub., “for handling the war in Syria”. The House of Representatives has the sole power to make charges against the president, and the Senate has the sole power to try and convict. If president appealed upon conviction, the Courts would get involved. And of course, everything is subject to interpretation. I personally think my president should be impeached now.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Aug 25, 2015 at 8:46 am

      I wonder if President Obama could be impeached for this.

      He could be impeached for dozens of things, but the question is whether the “opposition” party has the will to do it. It is of course a given that the Globo-Socialist Party (aka the Democratic Party) won’t do it, they have an exemption from the media whereby they are not expected to be loyal to the country by enforcing the law.

      We live in a dictatorship now, literally, where laws are issued from the Oval Office, which is explicitly forbidden by the Constitution. But that parchment is not the Law anymore, it’s been a dead letter since it was rechristened a “living document” which is to say it is a dead piece of paper, tree detritus.

      The law now is what can be sold on the TV set. Remember that back when John McCain was Barack Hussein’s “opponent” for the presidency, when the North Carolina Republican Party ran an ad criticizing Barack’s association with terrorists, “candidate” McCain went ballistic and publicly threatened the state party organization as “extreme.” As if by design, he of course lost the election to Barack, who has since been quite comfy with Jihad activists, especially the murderers of the Mo-Bro-Hood.

      Funny how all that has not been revisited, not even on Fox RINO. These are good times for the Mujahidin.

      • Dr. Divinity says

        Aug 25, 2015 at 11:38 am

        Once again Obama administration reaching the pinnacle of stupidity.

        • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

          Aug 25, 2015 at 11:48 am

          Stupid or devious? They are devious in their fake stupidity. Prez Barack Hussein is highly skilled in the art of fakery: fake black guy, fake American, fake Christian, fake editor of the Harvard Law Review. Fake. Fakes to the left of me, fakes to the right.

          But I have noticed the last few years the knee jerk reaction of the Obama administration on this or that failure is to implicitly plead incompetence. That’s the word they use for stupidity in Washington DC (the nation’s richest city by far): incompetence. So we have devolved from the buck stops here to dreamy socialists to incompetents, but in reality they are not stupid. They’re too smart for that. Hell, half the people in the White House are ex-college professors. How stupid is that?

      • Dr. Divinity says

        Aug 25, 2015 at 11:41 am

        Impeach the first black,well part black,president…..NEVER HAPPEN¡¡¡¡¡

      • Peter Charles says

        Aug 25, 2015 at 5:27 pm

        Sixteen months, twenty more days of suffering this president.

    • Champ says

      Aug 25, 2015 at 5:41 pm

      Linde wrote:

      I personally think my president should be impeached now.

      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

      Yes–I’ve thought this for *years* now, Linde! But it still hasn’t happened, and I doubt it ever will. I see obama as a forked-tongue lying devil whose deceived Americans and the world. Well, not this American, that is …

  4. Westman says

    Aug 25, 2015 at 12:03 am

    This mess isn’t going to end in my lifetime.

    Search for a map of Israel that includes the settlements. Now draw a line that separates a defensible Israel and its settlements from a new state of “Palestine”. Do you still think a two-state solution is possible?

    The phrase “two-state solution” is the most cynical, dishonest, fabrication I have ever heard escape the mouths of politicians. I can’t see an acceptable division or scenario that will become two-state without taking land from another country. A one-state solution could be possible with the cooperation of the Palestine militant groups, Hamas, PA, etc. Does anyone think that will happen?

    I just see a future intifada #n, n+1, n+2, etc.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Aug 25, 2015 at 9:49 am

      The phrase “two-state solution” is the most cynical, dishonest, fabrication …

      I’ve got a two-state solution: move ’em all out to Jordan. Caroline Glick is right, the only public figure with the balls to state the obvious, and she’s a woman.

    • duh_swami says

      Aug 25, 2015 at 9:58 am

      One state, two states, or ten stares…The jihad against Israel will continue, because that’s the way Allah wants it…

  5. Huck Folder says

    Aug 25, 2015 at 1:35 am

    O/T

    http://nypost.com/2015/08/23/hillarys-e-mail-defense-is-total-bs-former-state-dept-officials/

    And Huma Abadin had total access to all that too?

    God what an IDIOT as SOS, and she wants to be PRESIDENT?
    God help America. They’ve shown twice there deathwish.
    They could do that a third time.
    Even the dead would vote.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Aug 25, 2015 at 9:53 am

      When Benghazi and the anal gang rape of our ambassador happened, I looked at my flat screen and thought, “Gee, these Maghreb Moslem Activists are good. They are such smart operators that they knew when and where the ambassador would show up, and threw a reception party for him with a few dozen Mujahidin armed with mortars and RPGs.

      Now we know that their brethern in the Mo-Bro-Hood had hacked next-Prez Hillary’s server, or maybe Mo-Sis-Hood member Huma just picked up her cell and phoned it in. But still Fox RINO gives us the pathetic geek Geraldo sneering that Hillary “Did nothing illegal, she did not commit a crime.”

  6. Jon Sobieski says

    Aug 25, 2015 at 2:16 am

    The fix is in. How corrupt the Obama administration is. We give money to the Pals. They skim some, the rest is sucked up in the bureaucracy while they bitch about us and hate us. Obama doesn’t want that to stop.

  7. Angemon says

    Aug 25, 2015 at 5:50 am

    But on Monday, thanks to Team Obama, that message was all but obliterated. After an unusual intercession by the State and Justice departments, the judge hearing the case ordered the PA to post $10 million cash plus another $1 million a month as a bond while the case is appealed.

    No matter how much Obama appeases them, they’d still cut his head if they got their hands on him.

  8. DiMu says

    Aug 25, 2015 at 9:12 am

    The problem is much bigger than Obama! He is now part of the Global Financial Empire, and they wish to regulate the world economy and polity for their own profit. They would already be doing business with the PA and no doubt they want the Iran deal too. They back him to the hilt which is why he is cocksure and untouchable!

    Obama is no defender of the down-trodden. He is an Arch-Exploiter, using PC ideology as a smokescreen for his own scramble to head the UN where he (as a minion of the Global Financiers) will institute World Government – unless he is stopped!

    They will use the chaos they are supporting in the Muslim world, the volatility of the financial markets (caused by their own greed) and the War on Climate Change as their justification!

  9. duh_swami says

    Aug 25, 2015 at 10:21 am

    Old peoples money in the old days was gold and silver. The clever took that away from you and gave you paper coupons, that can be traded at the grocery store and gas station till further notice…
    Rasool Obama didn’t put you over that barrel, but he does nothing o relieve you from it either…Instead he plays stealth jihadist in the WH. He is very deserving of Allah’s paradise, sooner rather than later, no one is more deserving…

  10. CraigAustin says

    Aug 25, 2015 at 10:30 am

    I wonder how much it would cost to turn the entire Gaza Strip into terrorist scented rubble?

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