Bush and Cheney Responsible for Five Suspected Terrorists Going Free
By: emptywheel Monday September 8, 2008 11:39 am
A Court in the UK just convicted three men it had charged with plotting to make bombs from bottles of liquid and explode them on planes flying over the Atlantic.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-britain-plot.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin Three Britons were found guilty on Monday of plotting to kill people using homemade liquid bombs, but a jury failed to agree that they intended to blow up transatlantic airliners.
After a five-month trial, the jury found Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain guilty of conspiring to kill "persons unknown" but were not convinced by the prosecution's case that they planned to target aircraft leaving London's Heathrow airport headed for North America.But it failed to convict a majority of the eight men it had charged. The jury failed to reach a verdict in the case of four other defendants and an eighth was cleared on all counts. We'll never know, but there's a decent
likelihood British officials could have convicted all the suspects had Bush and Cheney not prematurely trumped up these plans into a terror scare right before the 2006 elections. As Ron Suskind described, Bush and Cheney pushed the Pakistanis to break this, in spite of demands from the UK that the investigators allow their work to continue to fruition.
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