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Published: 03/16/10

Attorney General: Bin Laden Won't Face Trial

By  not in system - AOL News
Attorney General: Bin Laden Won't Face Trial

WASHINGTON (March 16) -- Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Tuesday that Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive. In testy exchanges with House Republicans, the attorney general compared bin Laden to mass murderer Charles Manson and predicted that events would ensure "we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden" not to the al-Qaida leader as a captive. Holder sternly rejected criticism from GOP members of a House Appropriations subcommittee, who contend it is too dangerous to put terror suspects on ...

Published: 08/17/09

Senators Urge Continued Lockup for Pan Am Lockerbie Bomber

By  Lynn Sweet - Politics Daily
Senators Urge Continued Lockup for Pan Am Lockerbie Bomber

Seven U.S. senators on Monday signed a letter imploring Scotland's justice minister not to release the Libyan man convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, PoliticsDaily.com has learned.The senators' letter underscores calls made by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder to Scotland's Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill last week asking him to keep Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi in prison and not let him return to Libya. (My PoliticsDaily.com scoop about Clinton and Holder here.) ...

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