This case had a powerful emotional component and I was concerned that we would not be able to overcome that.

The concept of blowing up innocent people is not permissible.

When I met him, he was in full shackles and manacles. There was a camera there recording our meeting. He was a little teary-eyed, shaken.

The case certainly has a high level of security unparalleled in my experience of practice in the federal court.

He is living in a mud hut in the middle of nowhere with his Koran, his wife, and his child,

He is a very frightened 19-year-old.

These cases teach us, me and you, how important and how cherished the rights are that we have. After all, it is those rights that were under attack.

Several of them had,

I really felt a sense of his pain. He was a person who was wrongly accused at a very difficult time.

He never said he was responsible because this was something that he did.

to stop the carnage and the starvation.

Other than the interpreters’ booths, the courtroom has the normal appearance of a multi-defendant trial.

He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Most of these cases become the battleground for fundamental issues that every defendant has in a criminal case.

They thought they had someone, and they pressed him and pressed him. Civil liberties were put on hold, because the government was dealing with a tragedy of enormous proportions.