Bush's "war on terrorism" fails again...

The Bush administration’s obsessive secrecy and adamant opposition to public trials for suspected terrorists not only violates the Constitution, thus moving our country closer to totalitarianism, but makes it impossible to fairly try those accused of collaborating to plan 9/11.

One such suspect was freed in Germany today and the outcome of his trial thrown into doubt.

BERLIN, Dec. 11 — The United States' refusal to allow testimony from a jailed Qaeda figure prompted a Hamburg judge on Thursday to order the release of a Moroccan accused of aiding the Sept. 11 hijackers.

The judge acted after reviewing new evidence that Ramzi bin al-Shibh, a member of the Hamburg Qaeda cell that planned and executed the World Trade Center attacks, told American interrogators that only he and the three suicide pilots from the Hamburg cell knew about the attacks before they happened. The judge said that while he had strong doubts about the reliability of the evidence, he could not properly evaluate it without testimony from Mr. bin al-Shibh.

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