{"id":250378,"date":"2010-01-30T07:01:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T12:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papundits.wordpress.com\/?p=30640"},"modified":"2010-01-30T07:01:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T12:01:02","slug":"courtroom-cirque-du-jihad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/250378","title":{"rendered":"Courtroom Cirque du Jihad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>By Michelle Malkin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Imagine this nightmare courtroom scenario: Unhinged Jew-bashing, open mockery of American soldiers, juror intimidation and coldly calculated exploitation of U.S. constitutional protections by a suspected al-Qaida defendant. Well, there\u2019s no need to wait for the Gitmo terror trial circuses. New York City is already getting a glimpse of the future.<\/p>\n

Jihadi scientist Aafia Siddiqui is on trial right now in a federal Manhattan court for the attempted murder and assault of U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan\u2019s Ghazni province two years ago. She\u2019s an accomplished Karachi-born scientist who studied microbiology at MIT and did graduate work in neurology at Brandeis University before disappearing in the wake of the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n

Counterterrorism investigators connected Siddiqui and her estranged husband, anesthesiologist Dr. Mohammed Amjad Khan, to Saudi terror funders. The couple\u2019s bank account showed repeated purchases of high-tech military equipment and apparel, including body armor, night-vision goggles and military manuals. Her second husband, fellow al-Qaida suspect and 9\/11 plot helper Ammar al-Baluchi, is one of five Gitmo detainees the Obama administration is planning to transfer to New York for trial.<\/p>\n

Siddiqui was identified as an al-Qaida operative, financier and fixer by no less than 9\/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed during U.S. interrogations. Al-Baluchi is KSM\u2019s nephew. Mohammed reportedly enlisted Siddiqui in a Baltimore-based plot to bomb gas stations, fuel tanks and bridges, and to poison water reservoirs in the greater Washington, D.C., area. Siddiqui was taken into custody in Ghazni in July 2008 after attempting to shoot U.S. military interrogators and FBI agents.<\/p>\n

Now, the savvy \u201cTerror Mom\u201d of three is pulling out all the stops to win a mistrial. Among her Cirque du Jihad antics:
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\n– Demanding that jurors be genetically tested for a \u201cZionist or Israeli background\u201d to ensure a fair and impartial jury of her Jew-hating peers.<\/p>\n

– Ranting about 9\/11 Israel conspiracies during voir dire.<\/p>\n

– Screaming out loud during the testimony of U.S. Army Capt. Robert Snyder, who was in the room in Ghazni when Siddiqui allegedly grabbed an M-4 rifle and proclaimed, \u201cAllahu Akbar!\u201d and \u201cI hate Americans! Death to America!\u201d Before being ejected from the courtroom, Siddiqui shouted to Snyder, \u201cYou\u2019re lying!\u201d She also babbled about torture at a secret prison.<\/p>\n

– Blurting out \u201cI feel sorry for you\u201d to the witness in front of the jury before being led out of the courtroom again.<\/p>\n

Siddiqui\u2019s defense team, funded in part by the Pakistani government, asserts that Lady al-Qaida is so mentally ga-ga that she should not be allowed to take the witness stand. Bleeding-heart human-rights groups have dutifully rallied around Siddiqui. She\u2019s Mumia Abu-Jamal in a burqa. Indeed, her supporters have launched their own \u201cFree Aafia\u201d campaign. But two government-retained psychiatrists, working independently, determined last year that Siddiqui\u2019s so-called symptoms of mental illness were attributed to \u201cmalingering\u201d and \u201cmanipulation.\u201d The judge in the case concluded that she is competent and understands full well the charges against her.<\/p>\n

The Crazy Jihadi tactic is in perfect sync with the al-Qaida training manual advising its operatives to claim victimhood status if arrested and put on trial. This act is also in keeping with a long tradition of terror defendants invoking the insanity card — from \u201c20th hijacker\u201d Zacarias Moussaoui (whose lawyers chalked up his mass-murdering ambitions to a traumatic childhood) to Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan (whose defense will undoubtedly play up his lonely bachelorhood).<\/p>\n

To make matters worse, the New York Post reported this week that an \u201cunidentified man in a white headdress\u201d mouthed an obscenity at the Siddiqui trial and cocked his finger like a gun at two jurors. The jurors were let go; it remains unclear whether the thug in white headdress will be charged and what relation, if any, he has to Siddiqui.<\/p>\n

Would you answer a jury summons knowing you could end up sitting in front of a Jihadi sympathizer on the loose who is mentally painting a target on your forehead? And would you trust the White House ringmasters and Justice Department terror-coddlers to protect you from harm?<\/p>\n

These suspects belong in controlled military tribunals, not federal courtrooms that are being turned into al-Qaida P.R. platforms. The O.J. Simpson spectacle of a smirking murder suspect, preening defense attorneys, a showboating judge and the judicial process run amok on cable TV 24\/7 was bad enough. The 1993 World Trade Center bombing trial, which gave the bin Laden network a multimillion-dollar tax-subsidized legal team, free translation services, personal dry-cleaning services, race-baiting defense witnesses and access to information that was allegedly used by jihadists to evade surveillance, was even worse.<\/p>\n

The specter of 10, 15, 20 Siddiqui-style courtroom carnivals — at a cost of at least $1 billion to taxpayers — threatens to throw our civilian court system into complete chaos. America can\u2019t afford to clown around with national security.<\/p>\n

FamilySecurityMatters.org<\/a> Contributing Editor Michelle Malkin<\/a> is the author of<\/em> Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies (Regnery 2009)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Read more excellent articles from Family Security Matters<\/a><\/p>\n

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