[ April 19, 2024 ]
“Don’t forget that an al-Qaeda instruction manual captured in 2001 showed that Islamic jihadists are trained to understand and manipulate Western-style legal systems.’’
At some point the West is going to have to face the ugly consequences of these crushing policies. In the Umited States, many of the lawyers who defend Muslim terrorists are subsequently hired by Obama's Justice department. President Obama promoted Tony West to the number three job at the Department of Justice – associate attorney general. West and his San Francisco law firm represented some of the most heinous Islamic terrorist causes, including the American Taliban John Walker Lindh.
These are not criminals. These are acts of war, and should be treated as such. Imagine footing the legal bill for Nazis during WWII.
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Terror and the law, a nice little earner for lawyers Telegraph (hat tip David)
The legal aid bill for representing Muslim terrorist suspects has topped £110 million in a decade. So who are the lawyers orchestrating the court appeals of Abu Qatada and Abu Hamza?
They're all so bloody handsome, aren't they?
A high price for British taxpayers: Abu Hamza’s legal aid bills were £17,000 a week back in 2007
On the bustling, cosmopolitan streets of Southall, Muddassar Arani cuts an unassuming figure in her hijab. But this bespectacled middle-aged woman is in charge of a legal empire that has become a mecca for terrorist suspects. Arani and her firm Arani and Co have represented scores of Muslims detained under terror laws, bringing in several million pounds in legal aid fees.
From an anonymous office above a cash-and-carry, she has defended an array of high-profile cases, displaying a forensic knowledge of extradition laws. They include Sheikh Abu Hamza, the hook-handed cleric from Finsbury Park mosque – who has kept her busy with his long fight against extradition to an American supermax prison. She is also defending a British detainee in Guantanamo Bay, and the family of an alleged suicide bomber.
Meanwhile, Gareth Peirce, the veteran of Irish republican legal battles, this week pulled off a breathtaking coup against the Home Office by filing an eleventh-hour appeal to Europe on behalf of her widely demonised client, Abu Qatada.
To the bewilderment of MPs, Peirce’s legal team wrong-footed the Home Secretary Theresa May, and delayed the extremist Muslim cleric’s deportation. He could even be released on bail again. Peirce headed a team of expensive lawyers, including two barristers from Doughty Street Chambers, Raza Husain and Edward Fitzgerald – the husband of Lady Antonia Fraser’s daughter, Rebecca.
One commentator described Peirce as the ''go to’’ female lawyer-of-choice ''for every accused jihadist and IRA suspect”.
So who are the legal teams behind the religious zealots and terror suspects? And most importantly – who is paying for their services, and how much?
While nobody is questioning the motives of Miss Arani or the team representing Abu Qatada, a well-informed source told The Daily Telegraph that questions are being asked about whether some other firms in their wake are using “ambulance chaser’’ tactics. ''The feeling in Whitehall is that these lawyers are actually encouraging terror suspects to take these cases against the Government because there is money to be made,” he said.
“Don’t forget that an al-Qaeda instruction manual captured in 2001 showed that Islamic jihadists are trained to understand and manipulate Western-style legal systems.’’
There are a number of firms who have cornered the ''war on terror’’ market, according to the Legal Services Commission.
At a conservative estimate, based on Freedom of Information releases and parliamentary answers, The Daily Telegraph believes that the bill has topped £110 million over the last decade. The latest figures from 2010 show that Arani & Co earned £4.8 million over six years. They were followed by Birnberg Peirce & Partners, who earned £4.4 million. Imran Khan & Partners took £3.6 million, while the Leeds-based Yasmin & Shaid were paid £3 million. Christian Khan earned £2.2 million. A host of smaller firms also earned millions.
It is believed that the legal aid bill for six prosecutions over a plot to blow up transatlantic airliners in August 2006 hit £30 million. The men were found guilty in July 2010, after the most recent figures were collated. The protracted case of Abu Qatada has cost taxpayers an estimated £1.5 million in legal fees and benefits.
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10 Comments
11 years ago
The eye thing is the result of intermarriage.
11 years ago
Talk about shoiting on us all from a great height. Legally supporting terrorists via our very own legal system whilst at the same time being rewarded by lining their disgusting overfllowing blood-encrusted financial coffers.
I’m sorry, but I just see these monsters ‘people’ as being no better than those they defend; and those who help to invoke terrorism; those who slaughter innocent people, past and present – they all merge into one ‘cell’, as far as I am concerned.
They don’t give a damn about the safety of our citizens, our families. They disgust me and make me feel nauseous.
When the masses finally do wake up, I hope these people and their affils, who are complicit in this lucrative ‘terrorism business’, for one reason only, have good running shoes.
Well done to the Telegraph on opening the lid on one tentacle of this Islamic Mafia which is engulfing and crippling our country, from within….
11 years ago
OBWANA is the terrorist!
11 years ago
The Progressive march toward finishing what Hitler and his Grand Mufti ally started — the Islamic Final Solution (in a fevered religious frenzy) — that it would be no surprise to hear that Obama-supported US funding for gas chambers is Green and Sustainable.
Perhaps we could call the grand Progressive plan — “Resumption”
11 years ago
That guy is definitely too sexy for his shirt.
11 years ago
Isabella…yes, I agree – who needs Brad Pitt when there’s such a handsome hunk around!I think it could be the eye, or then again maybe it could be the hooks!
11 years ago
Make the lawyers work pro bono. They’ll still take the case because they’ll swim in rivers of adulation afterwards by the DOJ, ACLU, and D.C. think tanks, the mainstream media, etc.
11 years ago
Any terrorist caught should do the rest of his life forced labor in a self sufficient high security and pay all their legal fees by forced labor in the prison’s bacon factory. Problem solved.
11 years ago
The family of Leon Klinghoffer won a settlement against the palestinians.
There has to be a way to use the system against them just as they are using it against us.
We have to target those funding them, Saudi Arabia might be a good place to start looking.
11 years ago
One of the Lawyer’s mentioned in above article, Gareth Peirce (aka Jean Webb – born 1940), a snippet from Wikipedia:-
[…]
Michael Gove, a journalist and later a Conservative MP, once described her as being a “passionate, committed and effective supporter of the Trotskyist Socialist Alliance“, which he said was committed to destabilising the Establishment. In 2005, Gove told The Sunday Telegraph that as well as serving her clients, she also has an “idealism that is motivated by a political agenda“.[4]
[No surprises there then]
ALSO, from Jihadwatch:
European court tipped off jihadist Abu Qatada to help him make last-ditch appeal to stay in Britain
Because what does Britain need for what ails it? Obviously it needs more jihad terrorists. “European court ‘tipped off Abu Qatada over deadline to help him make last-ditch appeal to stay,'” by Brendan Carlin in the Daily Mail, April 21 (thanks to Anne Crockett):
European human rights judges have been accused of ‘alerting’ radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada to the fact he still had time to lodge a last-ditch appeal against deportation.
Furious Home Office sources last night claimed that it was the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) itself that privately told Jordanian-born Qatada that there was still the possibility of an appeal
But they say there was no similar attempt by the Strasbourg-based court to warn Home Secretary Theresa May of the impending deadline.
Senior sources in Mrs May’s department told The Mail on Sunday that the ECHR had reminded Qatada last Monday that he still had the option to appeal. more: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/04/european-court-tipped-off-jihadist-abu-qatada-to-help-him-make-last-ditch-appeal-to-stay-in-britain.html
[The rot is deep. Seems ‘tipping off’ terrorists is acceptable, back in 2007, Lawyer, Muddassar Arani of ‘Arani & Co‘ (aka Arani Solicitors Limited), allegedly tipped of terrorist Mohammed Hamid:
Mohammed Hamid, 50, was allegedly warned that his “camps” formed part of the case against the terrorists. more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/555334/Terror-court-Lawyer-tipped-off-terror-chief-Mohammed-Hamid.html
Days later he was arrested with his supporters at a restaurant as they met to “get their stories straight”, the jury heard.
Hamid – accused of training the 21/7 bombers – was asked to be a defence witness at their trial.
Yesterday he told how a female solicitor for London firm Arani & Co telephoned asking for his help.
He told the court: “She was representing one or two people in the trial. She wanted me to take her down to the Lake District and show her exactly where we camped – the places, the villages, the pubs, the mountains.
“I said I had already been interviewed by the police. She said if I have anybody else who came on the camping trip who hadn’t been interviewed – then I should let her know.
“That’s why I invited about nine people to come to the restaurant.”
The meeting at the Bridge To Chinatown restaurant in Borough, South London, was broken up by anti-terror cops – who arrested Hamid and the others.
David Farrell QC, suggested Hamid met the other campers to “get their stories straight”.
He told him: “You knew from your discussions with the solicitor that this is what the prosecution in the case was alleging – that your training camps were terrorist training camps.”
Hamid – dubbed “Osama bin London” – insisted the solicitor “never let off any details”, adding: “She just said to me, ‘Will you give a statement about the camping trip and will you show us the place you camped.’”
Later the jury sent a note to the judge complaining that Hamid was “preaching instead of answering questions”. And they asked for an expert on Islam to verify his religious claims.
Arani & Co represented Muktar Said Ibrahim, 29, Yassin Omar, 26, and Ramzi Mohammed, 25, before they were jailed for 40 years for the failed attacks on London commuters.
