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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on January 15, 2010

More al Qaeda terrorists will be coming to America to kill infidels, according to Christmas Underwear Bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutalla. Therefore, more locations for trials and detaining terrorists will be needed. Pres. Obama’s state of Illinois is already slotted to house them and the prison there will fill up rapidly; New York City and now, Washington, DC, have been chosen to try them in civilian courts of law. It’s going to get crowded with the onslaught of radical jihadists.

So Obama will need to decide on more US locations to add to his list.

Maybe Obama’s childhood state of Hawaii could build a prison for them? Or would that be insensitive, since Hawaii is so much like the gorgeous location of the current, soon-to-be closed detention center at Paradise Guantánamo?

POTUS should just ASK the terrorists what they would like… that would keep him from offending them. Maybe Khalid Sheikh Mohammed could offer Obama some tips…

From APNewsBreak: US said to eye DC for Gitmo trial:

By MATT APUZZO and DEVLIN BARRETT
Jan 15, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama administration is considering a criminal trial in Washington for the Guantanamo Bay detainee suspected of masterminding the bombing of a Bali nightclub that killed 202 people, a plan that would bring one of the world’s most notorious terrorism suspects just steps from the U.S. Capitol, The Associated Press has learned.

Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, was allegedly Osama bin Laden’s point man in Indonesia and, until his capture in August 2003, was believed to be the main link between al-Qaida and Jemaah Islamiyah, the terror group blamed for the 2002 bombing on the island of Bali.

Other terrorism trials also may occur in Washington and New York City under a proposal being discussed within the Obama administration, according to U.S. officials briefed on the plan, who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss private planning meetings.

Authorities already have begun discussing the intense security measures needed to bring Hambali and others before a Washington federal judge, the officials said.

Conducting a trial in the nation’s capital would be a symbolic repudiation of the policies of former President George W. Bush, who portrayed Hambali as a success story in the Bush administration’s program of interrogating terror suspects in secret CIA prisons overseas.

Bush said such interrogations, which included the simulated drowning technique of waterboarding, helped crack alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and led authorities to Hambali. Under intense questioning at a CIA “black site,” Hambali revealed a plan for another wave of suicide hijackings in the U.S., Bush said.

Obama already has decided that Mohammed will face trial in New York and has said he believes criminal courts can handle even the most dangerous terrorists. If Hambali’s trial were held in Washington’s federal courthouse, the country’s most significant terrorism trials in generations will be conducted in the two cities targeted in the Sept. 11. 2001, attacks.

But as Obama tries to close the military-run detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, he has found that moving detainees into U.S. courts is more difficult than he spelled out during his presidential campaign. Hambali was among 14 of what the U.S. said were key al-Qaida operatives moved from CIA custody to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.

Some Guantanamo prisoners have been cleared for release for more than a year, but the U.S. can’t find any country to take them. Other detainees are deemed too dangerous to release, but prosecutors don’t have enough evidence to charge them in court. And prosecuting people like Mohammed and Hambali, both of whom spent time in secret CIA prisons, risks revealing more details about the classified interrogation program.

Attorney General Eric Holder is sorting through the files of the nearly 200 detainees, deciding who can be brought to court and who should remain in a military commission system, where rules of evidence are more lax and prisoners have fewer rights. Justice Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Hambali’s fate remains undecided.

Related reading:
John M. O’Hara, Big Government: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: Terror Trials in the Big Apple
Ace of Spades HQ: Traitorous Bastard…”Hey Sorry That We In Al Qaeda Are Cowards And Kill Lots Of Muslims”
And so it goes in Shreveport: Eric Holder Defends His Decision to Bring KSM to New York City
Stop The ACLU: Oops! Americans Overwhelmingly Disagree With Obama On Civilian KSM Trial
Track-A-’Crat: History Is Bunk
Gateway Pundit: 9-11 Terrorists Ready to Rock New York City In Terror Show Trials and Flashback: Obama Says KSM Will Get “Full Military Trial” (Video) and Smart Power… 9-11 Mastermind Will Face Trial in NY Civilian Court.
Charles Krauthammer, Real Clear Politics: Explaining Away Mass Murder
Atlas Shrugs: OUTRAGE: GITMO Comes to Chicagoland
Frugal Café Blog Zone: New York City Has Not Forgotten 9-11 Horrors, Mr. President (video) and Rudy Giuliani: Obama’s Shocking Decision Is Dangerous, Irresponsible to Try 9-11 Terrorists As Common Criminals in NYC (video) and NYC Will Be a Living Hell During 9-11 Terrorist Mastermind’s Travesty of a Civilian Trial, Thanks to Obama and 9/11 Remembrance: Rena Sam-Dinnoo, Rest in Peace
Kevin McCullough, Townhall.com: NYC to Obama: No You Won’t
Greg Knapp, Big Government: Don’t Worry, It’s Only $400-$600 Million to Try Terrorists in NYC
Andrew McCarthy, National Review Online: ‘Bring my lawyer! — That’s what’s so beautiful about America.’
Gateway Pundit: Weak. Obama Says It Was Holder’s Decision to Send Terrorists to New York For Trial (Video)
HillBuzz: For our friend Jane, we will do everything in our power to make sure Obama suffers at the ballot box for what he’s doing to New York
Logistics Monster: Sarah Palin’s Reaction To The 9/11 Terrorist Trials In NYC
Gathering of Eagles NY: Candidates for Impeachment: Eric Holder and Barack Obama
Sister Toldjah: KSM’s NYC show trial and how AQ will be paying close attention
Blue Crab Boulevard: The Obama Incentive Program

Nice Deb: Confirmed: NYC Show Trial Will Be Platform For Terrorist Propaganda and Video:Senator Sessions Questions Atty. Gen. Holder + Latest Polls and More and Rep Pete Hoekstra on KSM Terror Trial, Fort Hood Shooting. and Video: Reactions To Obama Administration’s Decision To Try Terrorists In NYC
The Powers That Be: Civil Trial for Khalid Mohammed Puts Obama on Sheikhy Ground
On My Watch: Obama to Terrorists: Have a New York Radical Muslim Platform
Hot Air: Webb: Criminal trials for 9/11 terrorists a bad idea and Feds dropped inquiry into Hasan’s contacts with jihadis because … he didn’t seem violent and Why was Hasan still in the Army?
Michelle Malkin: Bombshell: Obama bringing KSM to NYC for trial; former Bush AG Mukasey to respond at Federalist Society this afternoon
Flopping Aces: Obama’s Gitmo guru plays fall guy as admin backpeddles on facility closure
VotingFemale Speaks! Obama will Torture New Yorkers; Will Try 911 Terrorist War Fighters as common criminals; sets up their walking free on basis of treatment as war fighters
Atlas Shrugs: NYC Dhimmi Mayor Mike Hosts World Trade Center Bomb Plotter SIRAJ WAHHAJ “Unindicted conspirator” called the FBI and CIA the “real terrorists,” and “all Americans eventually become Muslim”
The Anchoress: 800,000 Converts from Islam?
Vets On The Watch: KSM- Coming To A City Near You
USA Today: Plans to try 9/11 suspect in NYC draw fire

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