His Mommy Wants Him Home
After seeing this on The Times Online, I started to laugh. Mr. Moussaoui's mom wants him back in France.
While America welcomed the closing of ths painful chapter, Moussaoui's mother hit back at the conviction of her son, insisting he was not guilty.
Launching a media blitz to proclaim her son's innocence she told French radio earlier today she would fight to bring him back to his native France. Aicha El Wafi said the conviction was "the worst thing that could happen to a mother".
Asked how she felt after hearing of the conviction, she said: "I feel nothing. I am dead because my son was wrongly convicted."
Her lawyer welcomed the decision not to impose the death penalty, saying that would have "added barbarity upon barbarity". He said that if the trial had taken place in France, Moussaoui would not have received more than ten years in prison.
But in the US there was some disquiet that the man who wished out loud that the atrocity of September 11 was repeated every day had escaped the maximum penalty.
I think the last paragraph hits below the belt. Justice, despite our misgivings about it, was served. And of courst the biggest problem with it, as we at The Asylum outlined, was that this matter would have been best left in the hands of a military tribunal. Every critic of the decision points to the prosecution, and while they are justified in stating that, the fault ultimately lies in the lap of the jury. Their idea of mitigating circumstances in a case like this is laughable. He was a soldeir in a war--one we didn't acknowledge until 9-11--and his childhood has little to do with his culpability in the worst attack on America, ever.
She wants him home and maintains his innocence. Well, I'm sure he's heartened by that fact, but I doubt her shrill shrieking across the pond is going to prompt us to move him. He committed a crime against America. He serves his sentence here. We can't trust our European "allies" (and as you can see, I'm using the term loosely in regard to France) to keep him there. As his attorney stated above, in France he would have been lucky to get ten years. (Of course, this has a lot to do with the fact he didn't do a damn thing to the French. No harm, no foul, in their eyes.)
Let her lodge all the complaints he wants. It's not going to get her son out of the Supermax facility in Colorado. Though I did see on Marvin's World that maybe he should be transferred to California. He thinks Charlie Manson needs a roomie. Heh, heh. I'll put $20 on Manson in the fight over who gets the top bunk.
Mistress Pundit
After seeing this on The Times Online, I started to laugh. Mr. Moussaoui's mom wants him back in France.
While America welcomed the closing of ths painful chapter, Moussaoui's mother hit back at the conviction of her son, insisting he was not guilty.
Launching a media blitz to proclaim her son's innocence she told French radio earlier today she would fight to bring him back to his native France. Aicha El Wafi said the conviction was "the worst thing that could happen to a mother".
Asked how she felt after hearing of the conviction, she said: "I feel nothing. I am dead because my son was wrongly convicted."
Her lawyer welcomed the decision not to impose the death penalty, saying that would have "added barbarity upon barbarity". He said that if the trial had taken place in France, Moussaoui would not have received more than ten years in prison.
But in the US there was some disquiet that the man who wished out loud that the atrocity of September 11 was repeated every day had escaped the maximum penalty.
I think the last paragraph hits below the belt. Justice, despite our misgivings about it, was served. And of courst the biggest problem with it, as we at The Asylum outlined, was that this matter would have been best left in the hands of a military tribunal. Every critic of the decision points to the prosecution, and while they are justified in stating that, the fault ultimately lies in the lap of the jury. Their idea of mitigating circumstances in a case like this is laughable. He was a soldeir in a war--one we didn't acknowledge until 9-11--and his childhood has little to do with his culpability in the worst attack on America, ever.
She wants him home and maintains his innocence. Well, I'm sure he's heartened by that fact, but I doubt her shrill shrieking across the pond is going to prompt us to move him. He committed a crime against America. He serves his sentence here. We can't trust our European "allies" (and as you can see, I'm using the term loosely in regard to France) to keep him there. As his attorney stated above, in France he would have been lucky to get ten years. (Of course, this has a lot to do with the fact he didn't do a damn thing to the French. No harm, no foul, in their eyes.)
Let her lodge all the complaints he wants. It's not going to get her son out of the Supermax facility in Colorado. Though I did see on Marvin's World that maybe he should be transferred to California. He thinks Charlie Manson needs a roomie. Heh, heh. I'll put $20 on Manson in the fight over who gets the top bunk.
Mistress Pundit
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