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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 02:17 PM
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Can you guess which "American terrorist" got a plea bargain?
Actually was charged AND got to see a lawyer also

So which one?


http://law.gsu.edu/ccunningham/fall03/Photos/Jose-Padilla,-police-mugshot.png
Padilla


Lindh


Hamdi
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LTR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 02:19 PM
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1. I'll go out on a limb and say...
...the white guy?
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 02:20 PM
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3. Yes
and same to you Dick.

:bounce:

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DrWho Donating Member (165 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 02:19 PM
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2. lindh eh
color of his skin or what?
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 02:22 PM
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4. Oh I'm sure that had NOTHING to do with it
I mean look at the example they made out of William Krar for crying out loud-this story was EVERYWHERE on the news

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040311-030156-8181r

WASHINGTON, March 14 (UPI) -- Since his appointment as attorney general, John Ashcroft's Washington office has issued 2,295 news releases. Not one of them has mentioned the name William Joseph Krar.

Krar's attorney is saying it's all a misunderstanding, and Krar himself is not talking, but his arrest by federal law enforcement in the small town of Noonday, Texas, last April may have stopped the most devastating terror attack on U.S. soil since Sept. 11.

An alert citizen contacted the FBI, which led to the arrest of Krar and the discovery of a mind-numbing weapons cache: fully automatic machine guns, remote-controlled explosive devices disguised as briefcases, 60 pipe bombs, nearly 500,000 rounds of ammunition and enough pure sodium cyanide "to kill everyone inside a 30,000 square foot building," according to federal authorities.

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markdd Donating Member (304 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 02:54 PM
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5. Didn't Lindh get a high powered lawyer...
Who beat a 10 count indictment down to one charge of possessing a fire arm and some grenades. Apparently Ashcroft and the FBI blew the case big time by throwing out the Constitution and standard FBI and police procedures. They couldn't even get a friendly judge to ignore all that. They had to offer a plea bargain before the admissibility of the evidence was even heard in court.

I think there is a book out "Getting away with Murder" on the case.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 03:44 PM
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6. Yep that is pretty much what happened
http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/10/04/lindh.statement/

Ashcroft/W and crowd can't seem to help but get played not that anyone reports it that way though.
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geek tragedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 03:48 PM
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7. Which one is serving 20 years
and which two haven't been convicted of anything yet?
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