1.0 link 140697 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-worthington/life-sentence-for-al-qaed_b_140697.html In any credible court system, the eve-of-election conviction of an associate of Osama bin Laden for producing promotional material for al-Qaeda, which directly encouraged impressionable young men to join a violent jihad against the United States, would be a resounding victory for the Bush administration. It would stand, however belatedly, as a last-minute acknowledgment that the administration, whose conduct in the "War on Terror" has been widely criticized for its almost indiscriminate extra-legal brutality, was at least capable of trying,...

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