Federal courts can do, even in horrific terrorism cases, even in cases with more than 1,000 people hurt by the crime in question. Even in cases with Huge National security and intelligence implications, even in cases where the defendant is an absolutely unrepentant International Terrorist who wants every chance he can get in a u. S. Court tomorrow denounce the United States and try to recruit other people to his cause. The Ramzi Youssef case after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing is part of how we know as a country that terrorism cases can be handled and handled well by our normal courts. You dont need to invent some Kangaroo Court system somewhere else to handle serious cases like that. The Ramzi Youssef trial took about five months. It was a long trial. He was convicted. At the end he was sentenced to life in prison plus 240 years. When his conviction was appealed to a higher court, the Appeals Court looked at the conduct of that fivemonth trial and said there was nothing wrong wi
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The Israeli government has reached for comparisons to some of the most notorious international antagonists of recent years in its effort to demonize Hamas so as to avoid a substantive conversation about the cause of the violence.