"It Was Not A Game, It Was Murder"
(CBS)
MIAMI- If you listened to prosecutor Brian Frazier begin to deliver the government’s closing argument Monday morning in the Jose Padilla terror support and conspiracy trial, and you knew nothing about the facts or the law, you would have thought you had dropped in on a case tracking a crime that had left scores dead and wounded.
In just the first 15 minutes of his presentation alone, Frazier used the words “murder” and “Al Qaeda” over and over again. “Jose Padilla was a “mujahadeen recruit and an Al Qaeda trainee,” Frazier started off, describing the junior partner in the alleged conspiracy as a young man “attended an Al Qaeda training camp to learn how to kill.” The three defendants talked in code using sports analogies, the prosecutor said, and they used the word “football” when they really meant terror training. “But it was not a game, it was murder.”
Actually, as Frazier eventually had to concede, it wasn’t really murder. No one died as a result of the alleged conspiracy between the famous Padilla—once upon a time the so-called “dirty bomb” suspect and a national “face of terror”—and his two lesser- known co-defendants. No one was injured. There were no attempts to murder or injure. In fact, as I suspect we will soon hear from the defense attorneys, it isn’t completely clear that the otherwise small men did anything more than to fantasize about doing big things...
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