Sunday, February 03, 2019

Why didn't Holder bring them to trial?

In Fox News, Catherine Herridge and Cyd Upson report,
Christine Lee Hanson was the youngest victim of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. If the bright and playful toddler were alive today, she would be turning 20 later this month.

Eighteen years after the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans, Christine's grandparents, Eunice and Lee Hanson, have fought for justice. After a recent 9/11 case update for the families in New York City, Eunice expressed optimism a that trial date might bet set at last for the five Al Qaeda suspects.

...But like so many of the parents who lost adult children on Sept. 11, Lee Hanson always worried he would not live long enough to see a trial of the Al Qaeda suspects held at Guantanamo Bay. In 2011, then 77-year-old Lee predicted he would die before his family saw justice, telling Fox News: "We look pretty weak in that we can't bring these people to trial."

Speaking of the self-described 9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has spent more than a decade in a Guantanamo Bay prison cell, Hanson added: "How much damage do you have to do? How many people do you have to kill? And how many heads do you have to cut off before people say you're gonna be brought to justice?"

Almost two decades after Al Qaeda terrorists struck so savagely, none of the five 9/11 suspects have been tried at Guantanamo Bay. The 9/11 military trial has stalled over a number of issues, including the Al Qaeda suspects detention in the CIA secret prisons where they were subjected to the enhanced interrogation program that critics call torture.
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