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May 08 2006

Moussaoui Changes His Mind About His Guilty Plea- Update: NO

Published by Karl under 9/11, 9th circus court, terrorism

UPDATED BELOW 

Seems like we just cannot trust this guy about anything.  Now he wants a do over on his trial, because despite his announcements to the contrary, he isn’t really guilty:

Moussaoui asks for new trial

Less than a week after he was jailed for life over the September 11 attacks, Al-Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui submitted a motion asking to withdraw his guilty plea so he can have a new trial.

"Moussaoui wishes to withdraw his guilty plea because when he entered the plea his ‘understanding of the American legal system was completely flawed’," his lawyers said in the motion. 

Translation:  I didn’t think I would lose even though I said i was guilty. 

 Moussaoui said in an affadavit "I now see that it is possible that I can receive a fair trial" in the United States.

Um, you already did.  Had it been unfair, you would be swinging from a rope now.

"Even with Americans as jurors," he went on, "I can have the opportunity to prove that I did not have any knowledge of and was not a member of the plot to hijack planes and crash them into buildings on September 11, 2001."

Despite the fact I said I was and said I did.

"I wish to withdraw my guilty plea and ask the court for a new trial to prove my innocence of the September 11 plot," he said.

A jury rejected prosecutors calls for a death penalty last Wednesday and called for the 37-year-old Frenchman to be jailed for life without chance of parole after he admitted six charges of conspiracy over the September 11 attacks.

Moussaoui decided on Friday, while waiting to be transferred to a super-maximum security prison in Colorado, that he wanted to change his plea, his lawyers said in documents submitted to a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, where his trial was held.

Translation:  I didn’t think I would lose even though I said i was guilty. 

 Moussaoui said in an affadavit "I now see that it is possible that I can receive a fair trial" in the United States.

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May 08 2006

Updated with additional information -> Monroe High School throws out the Gay Baby with the Christian Bathwater

Published by Karl under ACLU, Apple, Stupid Laws, intolerence

Note, the article referenced below implies that the Monroe School district was attempting to deny access to a Bible Study Group.  The article states that  A policy change at Monroe High School aimed at keeping public funds out of Bible studies is striking a blow to a less controversial student activity. 

The implication that the Monroe SD had said intention was fairly straight forward, and in part was what my blog was based on.  A call to the Herald reporter revealed that Monroe High was not actively involved with any bible related clubs in the course of this ruling.  It was taking its action in an apparently preemptive move based on the results of a federal lawsuit in Bethel School in 2002. 

The intention of the article was to imply that the policy’s inception had been to deny a bible club access when it was implemented by Bethel SD, and that Monroe SD was implementing a similar policy, for reasons unstated.

I would note that the accusation that the policy was implemented to deny the gay club formal recognitions, which was addressed and denied in the article, may actually be the accusation closer to the truth.  See below for more information and a history of the lawsuit.

Monroe High School, a small School in Northern Washington has made a policy change that is sure to have repercussions that ripple farther outward.

At issue is student clubs.  The situation is apparently that a Christian Club was being denied access and ASB funds, a privilege that other clubs enjoyed, and protested, citing the Supreme Court Ruling concerning equal access.

The school reviewed its options and decided the only way to prevent those darn Christians from having the same rights was to chuck them all.  So it partitioned the clubs into two classes, curriculum related and not curriculum related.

Any clubs not directly related to school curriculum will not be recognized.  And so to stop the Christians they tossed the baby out with the bath water.

The Christian Club was not the only one affected, as hit by this was the Multicultural Club, the Gay Straight Alliance, and the Kiwanis sponsored Key Club.  Here is the story.

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May 08 2006

Bin Laden Nukes: Confirmed

Published by Karl under From Russia with Love, Iran, Iraq, terrorism

If that headline does not scare the hell out of you, I don’t know what will.  I know the international intelligence community has a lack of credibility, particularly where WMDs are concerned.

In this case I am deeply afraid they might be right, but I hope to God they are wrong.

God help us if it is true.

Brit MI6 confirms Bin Laden nukes

Pakistani scientists reportedly advising al-Qaida on weaponization of uranium it has obtained

Editor’s note: The following story is adapted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium, online intelligence newsletter published by the founder of WND. Annual subscriptions are available now for the discounted price of $99 a year, which includes a free copy of Farah’s latest book, "Taking America Back." Monthly subscriptions are also available to credit card users for just $9.95.

By Gordon Thomas

MI6, Britain’s secret intelligence service, has identified six Pakistani scientists working in Iran’s nuclear bomb program who have been "advising al-Qaida on how to weaponize fissionable materials it has now obtained."

MI6 and the International Atomic Energy Agency believe the scientists have played a major role in enabling Iran to be "well advanced in providing uranium enriched materials for nuclear bombs," said Alexander Cirilovic, a nuclear terrorism expert in Paris.

Both high-level MI6 and CIA sources have confirmed the scientists would only have been allowed to assist al-Qaida with the authority of Iran’s unpredictable President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The revelation comes at a time when Washington has increased pressure on Tehran to give up its nuclear weapons program.

The scientists worked for Dr. A.Q. Khan, the "father of the Islamic bomb," who is now under house arrest in Pakistan after confessing he had provided both Iran and North Korea with details of how to make their own nuclear bombs.

The MI6 report to other intelligence services followed bin Laden’s recent threats to unleash a new wave of terror – with Britain and the United States his prime targets.

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