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To: combjelly who wrote (342430)7/8/2007 1:58:21 PM
From: tejek  Respond to of 1574658
 
The Law of Unintended Consequences
Libby Case May Aid Hamas Suspect

By JOSH GERSTEIN
Staff Reporter of the Sun
July 5, 2007

An alleged Hamas operative is likely to be among the first criminal defendants to try to capitalize on President Bush's commutation of the 2 1/2 year prison sentence imposed on a former White House aide, I. Lewis Libby Jr., for obstructing a CIA leak investigation. Mohammed Salah, 57, is scheduled to be sentenced by a federal judge in Chicago next week on one count of obstruction of justice. In February, a jury convicted Salah and a co-defendant, Abdelhaleem Ashqar, of obstruction, but acquitted the pair of a far more serious charge of racketeering conspiracy in support of Hamas's terrorist campaigns in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank.


Ahhhh......the repercussions from screwing around with the law. The attorney questions whether we are a nation of laws or nation of men; in the end, it may not matter.