May 30, 2006

How Many Times Can You Execute a Guy?

Islamic terrorist John Allen Muhammad has been convicted in Maryland for 6 more murders. No death penalty in Maryland, though. Instead, he gets life in prison. Fortunately, his life will be short since he's already sentenced to death in Virginia.

The rest of the story here.

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May 26, 2006

Breaking: Shots Fired on Capitol Hill

Report are conflicting, some saying the shots were from the Rayburn building, others from a garage at the Rayburn building. Click image on the right to see map of Capitol Hill.

Developing....scroll down for updates.

UPDATE: The longer this goes on, the less I know what to make of it. Over lunch I watched the news coverage. Nothing new. False alarm?

Update: Kingston, reporting from the Rayburn building, that the SWAT team has just moved in.

VOA:

Police in Washington, D.C say they are investigating reports of the sound of gunfire at a Congressional office building on Capitol Hill.

The Rayburn building holds offices of members of the House of Representatives. The building has been sealed off and staff requested to stay in their offices for the time being. Click the image to the right for a map of Capitol Hill. Developing.....

more...

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May 25, 2006

NYC Subway Bomb Plotter Convicted

Shahawar Matin Siraj has been convicted by a NY jury for a plot to blow up the Herald Square subway station. I'd recommend reading the NY Times story, but--and you might just be *shocked* by this--the Gray Lady writes the story in such a way as to suggest that the would-be-terrorist was really set up.

Instead, go read Chad's synopsis of it. In the place of equivocation between the story told by a convicted terrorist and the FBI, you'll get an unabashidly pro-American bias.

With the added bonus of a conversation about Mr. Siraj's small penis size. Let's see the NY Times beat that!

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D.C. Snipers Were Jihadis

The D.C. snipers, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo, are Islamic terrorists. While the MSM plays up the disgruntled father angle, they downplay the fact that both were Muslim converts and that they used the language of jihad to justify their actions. This is not to say that Muhammed was not motivated by the loss of custody of his children, only that there were other motivations as well.

it is clear that the D.C. snipers justified their actions as part of the greater jihad struggle. Below is a drawing made by Malvo while in jail.

malvo_drawing.jpg

Michelle Malkin has more.

UPDATE: Related and disgusting.

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May 21, 2006

Jihad Means Never Having To Say You're Saudi

Here.

Follow up here.

I read that last night, which is when I should've posted those links. But then I got my face buried in a bottle of Glenfiddich 18 year old single malt and Robert Spencer's A Politically Incorrect Guide To Islam (And The Crusades).

I offer no additional commentary, since B.C. at the Rott is asking all the right questions.

Speaking of Robert Spencer...

Michelle Malkin too.

The lovely and gracious Wild Thing has nice big color glossies suitable for printing and dartboards. Or the shootin' range.

Update: Whoops, looks like I missed Howie's posting about this story. Sorry dude.

Update, Too: Kos Kiddie laughs it up, earns Dhimmi of the Week Award.

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May 08, 2006

Moussaoui: Tap Tap, No Take-Backs (No Erasies, No Black Magic)

Convicted terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui now wants to change his plea to not guilty? No take-backs dude. more...

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May 03, 2006

Moussaoui Gets Life: Travesty of Justice


A jury has sentenced Zacarias Moussaoui to life in prison for his part in the 9/11 conspiracy. News reports just breaking the story. Updates soon.

Moussaoui deserved death. This is a travesty of justice.

UPDATE: NY TIMES:

“America, you lost!” Mr. Moussaoui shouted as he was led from the courtroom after the verdict was announced.
UPDATE: Fuzzy logic alert from friends and readers. So, you're happy that Moussaoui got life in prison because killing him would have made him a martyr? That does make a kind of superficial sense, but think about it. By that logic, no jihadi should ever be killed!

Ayman al-Zawahiri shouldn't be killed because that would make him a martyr. Osama bin Laden's cave shouldn't be bombed because getting 72 virgins is what he wants anyway. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi wants to be a martyr, making him live in the empty quarter is a far harsher punishment.

Allah agrees with the above, "Does that apply to Bin Laden too? If he turns around tomorrow and says the worst thing we could to him is supply him with lots of prostitutes, do we call the Mustang Ranch?"

UPDATE: He won't be kept in GP--general population--so unfortunately there won't be enough time for him to become someone's "bitch" or get a shiv in him. Instead, he'll have a private jail cell for the next 30 years, where he'll have a Koran delivered to him by a prison guard with white gloves every morning, he'll be given a prayer mat, and he'll have an imam come visit him once a week to discuss his misunderstanding of the word "jihad" in the Koran.

Video of announcement.

MSNBC:

A federal jury rejected the death penalty for al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui on Wednesday and decided he must spend life in prison for his role in the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history.

After seven days of deliberation, the nine men and three women rebuffed the governmentÂ’s appeal for death for the only person charged in this country in the four suicide jetliner hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001.

The story actually uses the word "rebuffed" to describe what one single juror could have done.

Here is a link to the complicated jury form. The jury had to answer all of these questions in order to give Moussaoui the death sentence. This is worse than doing taxes.

UPDATE: Bluto reminds me that the jury had to be unanimous. Do you think you could get a group of people to unanimously answer in the affirmative to the complicated questions asked in the above form? It's like getting two accountants to agree on a 1040--impossible!

I've got some advice for Moussaoui: watch your back in prison.

Others: Joyner, "Incredible. If Moussaoui doesnÂ’t deserve to die for his crimes, almost no one currently on death row does."

Allahpundit will have a link to the answered jury questionnaire shortly. Ace thinks that one of the jurors might have lied about their opposition to the death penalty. It's a temptation to think that this guy so obviously deserves the death penalty that a juror must either be insane or have lied about being "death penalty qualified" to get on the jury. It seems more probably to me that our federal laws just don't contemplate a person like Moussaoui being tried in a court of law.

Stop the ACLU

SoCal Pundit: This is a sad day in the War on Terror.

Say Uncle: I think itÂ’s for the best not to make a martyr of him.

UPDATE by VINNIE:

First off, while I had hoped for the death penalty, our appeals process may have made it merely a symbolic judgment. I don't know. God only gave me 20/20 vision in hindsight. In foresight, I could use trifocals. Big, coke-bottle lens trifocles.

But, whatever your thoughts on the sentencing, the Moussaoui trial gave us a gift. That gift is the record of the trial.

You may view the exhibits presented at the trial here.

I chronicled the worst of them here.

No matter what you think of the sentencing, the trial, the jurors, always think this:

Never forget, never forgive.

MORNING UPDATE, May 4th, from Rusty:What the Moussaoui case shows is that the American court system is simply not prepared to try terrorists. It seems to me that Moussaoui, and many others we label terrorists, would have been called a 'sabateour' in previous wars.

During WWII there were cases of German sabateours 'invading' U.S.. From the FBI:

The purpose of the invasions was to strike a major blow for Germany by bringing the violence of war to our home ground through destruction of America's ability to manufacture vital equipment and supplies and transport them to the battlegrounds of Europe; to strike fear into the American civilian population, and diminish the resolve of the United States to overcome our enemies.
What happened to these 8 men who snuck into the U.S., dressed as civilians so as not to be detected, plotted to blow up major industrial centers and symbols of American power?
By June 27, 1942, all eight saboteurs had been arrested without having accomplished one act of destruction. Tried before a Military Commission, they were found guilty. One was sentenced to life imprisonment, another to thirty years, and six received the death penalty, which was carried out within a few days.
That is how you deal with terrorists.

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