Osama bin Laden will never face US trial
By DEVLIN BARRETT
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Attorney General Eric Holder
told Congress on Tuesday that
Osama bin Laden will never face
trial in the United States because
he will not be captured alive.
In testy exchanges with House
Republicans, the attorney general
compared bin Laden to mass
murderer Charles Manson and
predicted that events would ensure
"we will be reading Miranda
rights to the corpse of Osama bin
Laden" not to the al-Qaida leader
as a captive.
Holder sternly rejected criticism
from GOP members of a House
Appropriations subcommittee,
who contend it is too dangerous
to put terror suspects on trial in
federal civilian courts as Holder
has proposed.
The attorney general said it
infuriates him to hear conservative
critics complain that terrorists
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would get too many rights in the
court system.
Terrorists in court "have the
same rights that Charles Manson
would have, any other kind of
mass murderer," the attorney
general said. "It doesn't mean
that they're going to be coddled,
it doesn't mean that they're going
to be treated with kid gloves."
The comparison to convicted
killer Manson angered Rep. John
Culberson, R-Texas, who said it
showed the Obama administration
doesn't understand the American
public's desire to treat terrorists
as wartime enemies, not criminal
defendants.
"My constituents and I just have
a deep-seated and profound
philosophical difference with
the Obama administration,"
Culberson said.
Holder, his voice rising, charged
that Culberson's arguments
ignored basic facts about the law
and the fight against terrorists.
"Let's deal with reality," Holder
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said. Bin Laden "will never appear
in an American courtroom."
Pressed further on that point,
Holder said: "The possibility of
catching him alive is infinitesimal.
He will be killed by us or he will
be killed by his own people so he
can't be captured by us."
Much of the hearing centered
aroundtheObamaadministration's
stalled plan to put the Khalid
Sheikh Mohammed, the professed
mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001,
attacks on trial. Last year, Holder
announced the trial would take
place in federal civilian court in
New York City, not far from the
site of the destroyed World Trade
Center.
In the face of resistance from
New York Mayor Michael
Bloomberg and other local
politicians, that plan was shelved
and the White House is now
considering putting KSM and
four alleged co-conspirators into
a military commission trial.
Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa.,
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bemoaned what he called a
"cowardly" desire to avoid a
civilian terror trial in a major
city.
If a terrorist had killed thousands
of Philadelphians, Fattah said,
"we would expect him to come to
Philadelphia" to face trial "if he
would live long enough."
"It doesn't befit a great nation
to hesitate or equivocate on the
question of following our own
laws," he said.
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A federal judge in Denver ruled
that a suspected Mexican drug
lord accused of helping smuggle
millions of dollars worth of
cocaine into the United States
should be held without bail until
his case is resolved.
Oscar Arriola Marquez has
pleaded not guilty to charges
that include money laundering
and conspiracy to distribute a
controlled substance. Authorities
say he used a remote ranch in
Peyton, Colo., to help ship 440
pounds of cocaine a week for
distribution to Chicago and New
York City.
Arriola Marquez was in federal
court Tuesday in Denver for a
detention hearing. A tentative trial
date has been set for May.
He faces 10 year to life in prison
if convicted. He was arrested in
Mexico in 2006 and extradited to
Colorado this month.