Update on Georgia terrorists trial

You must read this article of how the local law enforcement in Georgia handled the investigation and more specifically the interrogation of the 2 suspected Muslim terrorists currently on trial.

Seated in front of a computer, he refused to open a file in his Hotmail account, saying it would betray Sadequee, whom he'd met at the mosque near his house in Midtown. "I cannot really help against a Muslim," Ahmed said.

For anybody who says it isn't about the religion let this bounce around your little brain for awhile.

But a few days later, Ahmed drove to a library in Dawsonville and, not knowing he was under surveillance, sent an e-mail to Sadequee in Bangladesh. Ahmed wrote that he'd "slipped" in the interrogations "due to my own shortcomings in faith." But he said he'd regained his confidence through prayer. Everything would be all right.

The defense attorney is asking the judge to toss out 11 hours of interviews the FBI has on these two because the only reason the defendants would talk is because they thought they would not be arrested, even though on the tapes they talk about what type of attacks they wanted to carry out. So the attorney's basic argument is, sure they admitted to carrying out some attacks but you can't hold that against them, as if talking to an FBI agent is comparable to entering the confessional booth at church. More on this circular logic here.

Okay, I wasn't really running, I was just walking fast

That is a portion of a Bill Cosby routine of an exchange between a 5 year old child and his parents when he is caught running in the house.

Agents say Tech student accused of terrorist ties lied

Duhhh, no Shiite!

When Ahmed, then a 21-year-old Georgia Tech mechanical engineering student, was asked why he had visited Pakistan in the summer of 2005, Ahmed said it was to study the Koran. Instead, Ahmed would tell agents days later, he went there to get military training, "maybe at a terrorist training camp," FBI Special Agent Mark D. Richards testified.

The Koran is the terrorist field training manual so he was probably doing both.

Agents also asked Ahmed why he and Sadequee traveled to Canada in March 2005. To visit relatives, including his and Sadequee's, Ahmed told the agents. But Richards testified that Ahmed and Sadequee met in Toronto with "known terrorist extremists," some of whom are either convicted or under investigation.

Once again, probably another true statement. One thing we have learned is that there are strong family ties within the terrorist network.

Ahmed's lawyer, Jack Martin, contends Ahmed's statements, which will continue to be played in court over the next few days, should be suppressed. Martin says that Ahmed's statements were "involuntary" because agents coerced Ahmed into talking on the false promise he would not be arrested if he cooperated.

This kind of circular logic will probably work in our courts, but to anybody with a lick of common sense we are left to wonder. What sort of argument is it to say I am going to talk to you about a criminal act but I am only doing because I won't get arrested. Thank goodness Georgia prosecutors didn't use this line of reasoning when questioning the recent possible serial killer who killed a young lady here.

Oh yeah, and the Huckster wants to close Gitmo so that we can go through this dog and pony show for every detainee there who winds his way through the legal system.