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2010-01-26 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by GirlThursday 2010-01-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 NO TERRORIST HERE.......nope,nope,nope

Posted by armyguy 2010-01-26 07:06|| 2010-01-26 07:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Jurors removed for "unclear reasons"? I've got ten bucks saying she threatened them in open court, or cussed out whatever racial/ethnic grouping the jurors happened to belong to in their hearing.

Posted by Mitch H. 2010-01-26 10:44|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2010-01-26 10:44|| Front Page Top

#3 she's just hot blooded. /sarcasm

Posted by GirlThursday 2010-01-26 14:18|| 2010-01-26 14:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Aaah, if that warrant officer could only shoot better...

Posted by tu3031 2010-01-26 14:20|| 2010-01-26 14:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Sounds like they've got quite the circus going on down there...

The defendant was ejected from a Lower Manhattan courtroom not once, but twice on Monday for loudly proclaiming her innocence. And, in a separate episode between the two ejections, a spectator who pointed his thumb and index finger like a gun at the jury while mouthing an expletive was taken into custody and later released.

The judge later dismissed two jurors who said they felt threatened. They were visibly upset, a court official said.

The trial, which is in its second week, is taking place under heavy security in United States District Court, with a metal detector and guards at the courtroom door. Still, there have been breaches. On Monday, Judge Richard M. Berman noted some of them in explaining his ruling against a defense motion for greater public access to the court.

So far, three people have sneaked recording devices into the courtroom, said Judge Berman, adding that one audience member had even passed a cellphone, which is also banned, to a member of the defense team.

The court finds that the additional security measures are necessary, the judge announced.

A day of drama also included emotional testimony from the soldier whose M4 rifle was used in the alleged murder attempt, which took place in a police headquarters building in Afghanistan on July 18, 2008. Judge Berman said the soldiers name was withheld at the prosecutions request.

That soldier, whose name was entered into the record only as chief warrant officer, explained how he had laid his gun on the floor of a room in a show of respect for the Afghans inside, as is customary in that country.

You dont talk to somebody with an assault rifle around your neck, said the witness, who wore a green uniform and walked with a cane because of an unrelated roadside bombing in Afghanistan. At one point, he broke into tears describing that bombing.

The warrant officer testified that Ms. Siddiqui, who had been out of sight and behind a curtain when he had entered the room, grabbed the rifle and hoisted it to her shoulder while aiming it at the Army soldiers and F.B.I. agents in the room.

The warrant officer said he then fired two rounds from his 9-millimeter pistol, hitting Ms. Siddiqui in the abdomen before she was tackled.

On Monday, the warrant officer recreated the scene with the gun from a chair in front of the jury box.

A few minutes later, Ms. Siddiqui who was twice removed from the court during the first week for outbursts stating she was innocent launched into her second outburst of the day.

I never shot it! she yelled from the table where she sat among her lawyers, before marshals whisked her away. She was kept out of court for the rest of the day.

I bet he wishes he'd have taken her out too...

Posted by tu3031 2010-01-26 17:00|| 2010-01-26 17:00|| Front Page Top

#6 his 9-millimeter pistol

I think I see the problem. Justice should have been served a year ago.

Posted by ed 2010-01-26 17:08|| 2010-01-26 17:08|| Front Page Top

#7 More...

Two jurors were released from the tumultuous trial of the so-called "Lady Al Qaeda" on Monday, and the defendant was thrown out of the courtroom again - twice.

Sources said the jurors saw a man in the audience motion as if he were firing a gun at them and mouth an obscenity. "They felt they would no longer be fair," said Federal Judge Richard Berman, who spoke to the jurors in private.

In a transcript released Monday night, one juror told the judge he was "really freaked out" by the man "pointing in a gun gesture." A second juror said he would have trouble keeping an open mind "anytime anyone makes what I view as a death threat."

The spectator was questioned and then released.

What's up with that?

The defendant, MIT-trained Pakistani scientist Aafia Siddiqui, was also sent packing twice for speaking during the dramatic testimony of a terribly wounded Special Forces officer. The clandestine soldier, whose identity was limited to his rank - chief warrant officer - limped into the courtroom with a cane and a chestful of medals. He wept when he described the wounds hesustained in an unrelated roadside bombing in September in Afghanistan.

"Three of my men were killed, along with one Afghan," he said. The soldier began crying, and Berman reached over and handed him a tissue.

"Sorry," the witness said, dabbing at his badly scarred face and milky eyes. "I was burned over most of my body," he said. "I've had several skin grafts, lost a couple of organs. Every bone - waist down to my feet - was broken."

As he spoke, Siddiqui said, "I feel sorry for you. Don't do that. It will make America look bad in international court."

Oh, I can't wait for the Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Show...

Posted by tu3031 2010-01-26 17:12|| 2010-01-26 17:12|| Front Page Top

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