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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: LindyBill who wrote (46934)9/25/2002 3:08:48 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Do you want him as a convicted criminal or a material witness? They decided to go for the criminal, as I read it. Can't have it both ways. The Funds that were sent him from Europe by the Al Q paymaster is damning, IMO. Whether he was scheduled to be on a plane, we will never know for sure.

Actually, as I read the article, that was not the choice they faced. They could bargain with him for a lesser sentence, presumably something besides the death penalty, in return for good information on whatever cells might have supported the Al Q members that hit the WTC, Pentagon, and crashed in Pa. I would prefer they round up as many of the others and give the guy life in prison, to the death penalty and let the support cells continue to function.

The only choice which might have made sense was that M was simply too unreliable for them to feel he would be able to give them good information. They preferred the symbolic character of the death penalty then.
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