{"id":328,"date":"2003-12-08T19:38:56","date_gmt":"2003-12-09T02:38:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-12-08T19:38:56","modified_gmt":"2003-12-09T02:38:56","slug":"14-days-in-the-big-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/08\/14-days-in-the-big-house\/","title":{"rendered":"14 Days in the Big House"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So maybe al Qaeda exploited US jihad support<\/a> prior to Sept 11, 2001, but since then the government has been kicking the terrorists’ butts. Right? <\/p>\n

Maybe not.<\/p>\n

According to a new Syracuse University study<\/a>, in the 2 years after the Sept 11 attacks the Justice Department resolved 2681 terrorism-related cases referred by investigators. Of these:<\/p>\n

– 1,554 were thrown out without charges being filed. Of the remaining 1127 cases:<\/p>\n

– 234 were dismissed<\/a>. Of the remaining 893 cases:<\/p>\n

– 14 resulted in not guilty verdicts. Of the remaining 879 cases:<\/p>\n

– 506 resulted in no prison sentence. Of the remaining 373 cases:<\/p>\n

– 260 were sentenced to the time they had already spent in jail, and were released. Of the remaining 113 cases:<\/p>\n

– 23 were sentenced to 5 or more years — as compared with 24 sentenced to 5 or more years in the two years before<\/I> the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

“Terrorism cases fizzling out in US courts: study<\/a>,” LA Times<\/i>: <\/p>\n

“…[W]hile 184 people have been convicted of crimes deemed to involve ‘international terrorism,’ defendants were sentenced to a median<\/a> prison term of just 14 days.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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