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Old 05-13-2008
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US drops 9/11 'hijacker' charges

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The Pentagon has dropped charges against a man alleged to have been the "20th hijacker" in the September 11 attacks, his US military defence lawyer has said.

Mohammed al-Qahtani, who is being held at a US military jail at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was one of six men facing murder and war crimes charges for their alleged roles in the 2001 attacks.

Bryan Broyles, al-Qahtani's military lawyer, said on Monday that Susan Crawford, the convening authority for military commissions, dismissed the charges against al-Qahtani on Friday.

The charges were dismissed "without prejudice," meaning they could be filed again at some point in the future.
If there's no 20th hijacker, maybe there's no 19th hijacker, as well...

Did you know that:

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Former cabinet members of the British, Canadian and German governments and the Chief of Staff of the Russian Army have publicly expressed their doubts about the official 9/11 story.
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Americans are also imprisoned by fear, a false fear created by the hoax of “terrorism.” It has turned out that headline terrorist events since 9/11 have been orchestrated by the U.S. government. For example, the alleged terrorist plot to blow up Chicago’s Sears Tower was the brainchild of a FBI agent who searched out a few disaffected people to give lip service to the plot devised by the FBI agent. He arrested his victims, whose trial ended in acquittal and mistrial.

Many Europeans regard 9/11 itself as an orchestrated event. Former cabinet members of the British, Canadian and German governments and the Chief of Staff of the Russian Army have publicly expressed their doubts about the official 9/11 story. Recently, a former president of Italy, Francesco Cossiga, said in an interview with the newspaper, Corriere della Sera (November 30, 2007), that “democratic elements in America and Europe, with the Italian center-left in the forefront, now know that the 9/11 attack was planned and executed by the American CIA and Mossad in order to blame the Arab countries, and to persuade the Western powers to undertake military action both in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
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For the rest of the story: alJazeera Magazine - We are all prisoners now

Labelling something as conspiracy is sometimes the easiest way of hiding the truth. That's why I believe we should continue digging deeper the big tragedy of 9/11.
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Re: US drops 9/11 'hijacker' charges

I want to see the video files of the cameras surrounding the Pentagon first before I am willing to discuss 9/11 again. The Bush administration refuses to release them. And I think they have good reason to do so.
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I think they have good reason to do so.
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Sorry, Matt.

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Re: US drops 9/11 'hijacker' charges

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If there's no 20th hijacker, maybe there's no 19th hijacker, as well...

......Labelling something as conspiracy is sometimes the easiest way of hiding the truth. That's why I believe we should continue digging deeper the big tragedy of 9/11.
Ah!

A conspiracy theorist....9/11 is the fault of Americans. No hijackers. The usual stuff.

Shame on me for not getting it before.

Many things that were previously murky have now becolme clear.
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I want to see the video files of the cameras surrounding the Pentagon first before I am willing to discuss 9/11 again. The Bush administration refuses to release them. And I think they have good reason to do so.
Shame on me again!

Another conspiracy theorist. Perhaps not so surpriising, but still disgusting.

After all these years: I didn't know.

This will always be anti-Americanism at its most repulsive and shameless.
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Shame on me again!

Another conspiracy theorist. Perhaps not so surpriising, but still disgusting.

After all these years: I didn't know.

This will always be anti-Americanism at its most repulsive and shameless.
Nah, "true patriotism" is exclusively defined as "rigid dissent".

That's right, the, um, 47 people who, in 1941, said "F that...Pearl Harbor was a setup" and refused to participate in WWII in any way were the only true patriots in the country, at the time. They were not obviously craven as one might suspect, but were, in fact, the only truly courageous people in the mix.

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Re: US drops 9/11 'hijacker' charges

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Shame on me again!

Another conspiracy theorist. Perhaps not so surpriising, but still disgusting.

After all these years: I didn't know.

This will always be anti-Americanism at its most repulsive and shameless.
Simply accusing someone of being anti-American is a pretty lame debating tactic, in my opinion. You could actually refute his argument with a tiny amount of research. I mean, aren't you a little curious why the footage from the Pentagon hasn't been released? The answer is freely available.
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Re: US drops 9/11 'hijacker' charges

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If there's no 20th hijacker, maybe there's no 19th hijacker, as well...
If there is no May 32, perhaps there is no May 31.
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Re: US drops 9/11 'hijacker' charges

Funny you should say that;

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EXTRA DAYS IN BUFFALO.; Plaza Guest Finds May 32 on Iroquois Hotel Stamp.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstrac...609C946596D6CF
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That's a relief. The contrapositive of the argument holds: Since there is a May 31, there must be a May 32

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That's a relief. The contrapositive of the argument holds: Since there is a May 31, there must be a May 32

The only thing this experiment "proved" is that you cannot prosecute the WOT in a courtroom.

I wonder how much Perry Mason-proof stuff we have on-hand proving that OBL actually was behind 9/11... I mean, his various recordings/broadcasts could be just a bunch of huffing and puffing, right?
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Re: US drops 9/11 'hijacker' charges

Elvis and I was just talking about this the other day. Finally the truth is going to come out.
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