Bin Laden charges formally dropped

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- The United States has formally dropped criminal charges against former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who was killed in a U.S. military raid in Pakistan last month.

In federal court in Manhattan on Friday, prosecutors disposed of a 1998 indictment that charged bin Laden with murder and conspiracy to kill Americans for his role in attacking U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998. The indictment also alleged that bin Laden tried to attack U.S. defense assets.

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The action came after a thorough analysis confirmed that bin Laden did indeed die after Navy SEALs raided his compound, according to an affidavit from a top U.S. government official that was included in the filing.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/17/bin.laden.charges/index.html

I think, just to be safe, they should rasie OBL's body, put him on trial, and then shoot him again....

Don't give them any ideas.

I can just see the Willie Horton-like add with the disembodied Ossama head - "Did you know Barack Obama DROPPED the charges against Bin Ladin!?!?!"

dupe

:spray:

http://opiniojuris.org/2011/05/24/the-us-perspective-on-the-legal-basis-for-the-bin-laden-operation/

4. According to the Administration’s accounts, its forces were also committed to compliance with the prohibition in customary law and in article 23(d) of the 1907 Hague Regulations against denial of quarter. In Carney’s words, if bin Laden offered to surrender “the team was required to accept his surrender if the team could do so could do so safely,” and “was prepared” to do so. Harold Koh provides an even more detailed account:

“Consistent with the laws of armed conflict and U.S. military doctrine, the U.S. forces were prepared to capture bin Laden if he had surrendered in a way that they could safely accept. The laws of armed conflict require acceptance of a genuine offer of surrender that is clearly communicated by the surrendering party and received by the opposing force, under circumstances where it is feasible for the opposing force to accept that offer of surrender. But where that is not the case, those laws authorize use of lethal force against an enemy belligerent, under the circumstances presented here.”

nice try at revisionism, though. :eyes:

the FBI is yet to show evidence of his involvement on 9/11.

Oh. That's right. They never charged him with the attacks on 9/11.

"Where do I go to get my reputation back?"

attempted sarcasm.

How can you drop the charges if they were never litigated in a court of law? I mean the corpse, which was never produced, is either innocent or guilty but then ‘Dead men tell no tales’.

Maybe OBL is soaking up the sun with Ken Lay on some distance sun drenched isle sipping Singapore Slings at the expense of the American taxpayer.

Between the conspiro-nuts and the "Poor Osama" dunces, it's a clean sweep.

If you happened upon a post office in the last 9+ years and saw the Most Wanted poster there was no mention of 9/11

Not a conspiracy theorists on 9/11 but it always seemed a bit odd to me

In fact, ALL of the networks had "experts" conveniently standing by to accuse Bin Laden of the attacks within ONE hour after the 2nd tower exploded.
ALL of the the networks.
The Wayback Machine in Archive.org has 3 days of minute by minute network television coverage of the attack, I have watched all of it.
They all identified Bin Laden and "Al Quada" as responsible immediately, no proof, no evidence, nothing.

but OBL got most of the attention post-9/11 because he'd been targeted since the 1998 US embassy bombings anyway and founded al-Qaeda, the organization behind the attacks. I wonder if there'll be masses of people chanting USA and waving flags on the day KSM dies either in prison or by execution?

Some say that the credit should go to the Bush Administration and MOSSAD