UCLA marks 9/11 by hosting attack masterminds activist lawyer and lefties who claim counterterrorism is racist
UCLA is facing fury from 9/11 survivors and victim’s families for hosting a 25th anniversary event featuring the lawyer for the terror attack’s mastermind and a Yale professor who labeled counterterrorism efforts “racist.” The UCLA School of Law School is set to open the event, “25 Years After 9/11: Reimagining Freedom, Justice, and Security,” on Thursday before concluding it on the anniversary of the attack that killed more than 3,000 people.The conversation will be led by a variety of controversial speakers, including Melanie T.Partow, a defense attorney for the “principal architect” of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and Yale professor Aslı Ü.
Bâli, who once referred to counterterrorism a “racist gravy train.”“It’s absolutely absurd,” Jim McCaffrey, an FDNY lieutenant at the time of the attacks who responded to the Twin Towers, told the California Post.“They’re pointing fingers at the victims.
We’re the bad guys for being attacked.It’s mind-boggling.
What’s going on in academia?”Sally Regenhard, whose firefighter son, Christian, 28, died at Ground Zero, asked: “Can’t 9/11 families get a break?”“Crazy people say crazy things,” she added, saying her blood boils that 9/11 perpetrators like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed have not been brought to justice.“Let them say it another time.”Partow is a civil rights and international human rights litigator, according to her lecturer biography at the UC Irvine School of Law.
She clerked at the International Criminal Court and recently made headlines for issuing an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Partow has represented Mohammed since at least February 2020 and is a “qualified member of the Military Commissions Defense Organization Civilian Attorney Pool for the detainees held at Guantanamo Bay.”She is scheduled to speak on a panel titled “Torture, Rendition, and Detention: The Erosion of the Rights Regime post 9/11” that will focus on the “...