i wouldnt trust the guy. check out this
Judge Michael Mukasey And A Curious Omission In The Omar Abdel-Rahman Trial
http://intelwire.egoplex.com/2...09_17_blogarchive.html
Former federal judge Michael Mukasey -- President's Bush's new attorney general nominee -- has quite an impressive resume. But his highest profile case is also among his most problematic -- the 1995 prosecution of Blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman.
There's one big fish that got away in that case, and his name is Ali Mohamed, an al Qaeda infiltrator who had trained some of the Rahman conspirators while serving in the U.S. Army at Fort Bragg. Mohamed was also an FBI informant who had provided information about al Qaeda to the FBI in 1993.
The defense investigators couldn't find Mohamed. But the prosecutors did.
The defense problem was laid out by Stavis in open court on September 1, 1995:
15 MR. STAVIS: Your Honor, we are requesting a
16 asked missing witness instruction with regard to Ali
17 Mohammed. Ali Mohammed, your Honor will recall, was the
18 person who came from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, who was
19 assigned to the United States Army Special Forces --
20 THE COURT (Mukasey): Yes, we saw him on that splendid
21 videotape.
22 MR. STAVIS: And trained Mr. Nosair and others
23 for Afghanistan. When we attempted, Mr. Barrett attempted
24 to find Ali Mohammed, he found a friend at Fort Bragg who
25 knew his wife was in California. His wife hadn't seen him for over a year. We could not bring him in. Although he was very much, I would submit, a part of the defense case, we couldn't bring him in and we understand that he may have some connection with the government at this time.
THE COURT: I don't think a missing witness charge on that gentleman is warranted and I am not going to give one.
Here's where the story gets interesting. Despite Stavis' inability to locate Mohamed, the prosecutor -- Andrew McCarthy -- had no such problem.
ali mohammed is one of those uber terrorist guys that everyone needs to be familiar with.
http://www.cooperativeresearch..._informants=aliMohamed
1984: Ali Mohamed Works Briefly with CIA; Then Let Go Because of Connections to Islamic Fundamentalist Groups
did they really let him go considering they were catering to islamic fundamentalist groups. he did go to afghanistan and proclaimed to kill a few soviets.