What a Novel Idea, include KSM in the trials at Gitmo! Amazing, I don't know why they did not think of this sooner.
Maybe they should have trials for the rest of the Detainees at Gitmo!
wouldn't that be nice!
Independent Mail
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama's decision to resume military trials for detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will open the door for the prosecution there of several suspected 9/11 conspirators, including alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Obama's order, which reverses his move two years ago to halt new trials, has reignited arguments over the legality of the military commissions, despite ongoing U.S. efforts to reform the hotly debated system.
But fierce congressional opposition to trying Mohammed and other Guantanamo detainees in the United States left Obama with few options. And it forced him to reluctantly retreat, at least for now, from his promise to shut he prison down.
A handful of detainees have been charged in connection with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America, including Mohammed. But the charges were dismissed following Obama's decision to halt military commissions in January 2009.
Administration officials declined Monday to discuss the potential prosecution of Mohammed or the other detainees. But Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Guantanamo is a safe location for such a trial.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
New Guantanamo trials could include 9/11 suspects
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Bush on Waterboarding: 'I'd Do It Again'
"Yeah, we waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed," Bush said. "I'd do it again to save lives."
Me Too !
AOL Times
(June 3) -- Former President George W. Bush says he has no regrets that the mastermind of 9/11 was waterboarded while under interrogation, and he would allow it again "to save lives."
Bush made the comment in a speech Wednesday to the Economic Club of Grand Rapids, Mich.
"Yeah, we waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed," Bush said. "I'd do it again to save lives."
Waterboarding is a technique used by CIA interrogators under the Bush administration, in which the suspect's head is either submerged underwater or water is poured into his or her airways, to simulate drowning. It's now banned under the Obama administration, which considers it torture.
Mohammed is believed to be the most senior al-Qaida suspect in U.S. custody. He was captured in Pakistan in 2003 and is one of several detainees who endured waterboarding under their American captors.
In his speech Wednesday, Bush also defended his decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Bin Laden: Americans Will Die if Alleged 9/11 Mastermind Is Executed
So if we execute Khalid sheik Mohammed , for spearheading the 9/11 terrorist attack , which he admitted to being the Mastermind , Al Qaida will Kill any American they get in Custody .
For one Don't they do that anyway ?
And two because of that , why should we not execute every Al Qaida Member we have in custody ?
Better yet , just execute them in the field ! save some taxpayers money !
Foxnews
Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden threatened in a new audio recording released Thursday to kill any captured Americans if the U.S. executes the accused mastermind of the Sept.11 attacks or any other Al Qaeda suspects.
The U.S. is still considering whether to put Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four of his fellow plotters on military tribunal for their role in the Sept. 11 attacks. The Obama administration is also looking into recommendations for civilian trials, and is expected to announce a decision soon.
In a brief 74-second audio tape aired on Al-Jazeera television, bin Laden said if the U.S. decides to execute any Al Qaeda suspects in its custody -- and explicitly mentioned Mohammed -- his terror network would kill American captives.
The terror leader said such a decision "would mean the U.S. has issued a death sentence against whoever of you becomes a prisoner in our hands."
"Your friend at the White House is still walking in the footsteps of those before (him) in many important matters," including escalating the war in Afghanistan and "oppressing our prisoners that you are holding, beginning with the mujahid hero Khalid al Sheikh Mohammed," he added.
U.S. politicians have "oppressed us and still do, especially by backing Israel, which occupies the land of Palestine," the Al Qaeda chief said.
It was not immediately clear whether Al Qaeda currently has any U.S. captives, but the Haqqani group -- the Pakistan-based Taliban faction closest to Al Qaeda -- is holding an American soldier it captured in eastern Afghanistan in June 2009. It released a video of him in December.
In a veiled threat, bin Laden said Americans had previously thought their homeland was beyond the reach of his group until the 9/11 attack.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
“There is not going to be a trial in New York, I guarantee it"
“There is not going to be a trial in New York, I guarantee it. There is no appetite for the trials in Congress,” Boehner, R-Ohio, said regarding the KSM trial set for NYC.
Boy...I hope he's right.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
El Marco strikes again: 9/11 Families blast Obama's show trial travesty
Must see El Marco:
Check out El Marco's latest photo-essay with details from today's 9/11 Families NYC protest and bonus flashback photos of some potential members of Khalid Sheik Mohammed's future jury pool - just in case you needed reminded why Eric Holder's decision to try the 9/11 scumbags in NYC was such a dumb a** idea.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Khalid Sheik Mohammed may not get the death penalty
An obviously bad idea from the start to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in New York State civilian court. It just keeps getting worse and worse. Now it turns out that New York state juries are the least likely to hand out the death penalty.
New York Post
New York juries are often loath to impose the death penalty, even for terrorists.
In fact, a jury spared the lives of two Osama bin Laden followers a month after Sept. 11, while the World Trade Center's ruins were still smoldering.
Now comes a case unlike any other: the trial of professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed.
"If there was any case where a New York jury would impose the death penalty, this is it," said James Cohen, a law professor at Fordham University.
Nevertheless, a jury might steer clear of the death penalty -- not out of any opposition to capital punishment, but out of fear of making a martyr out of Mohammed.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
9/11 plotters to plead not guilty in order to "air their criticisms of US foreign policy".
We told you this was going to happen...
From Breitbart:
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Ali, also known as Ammar al-Baluchi, is a nephew of professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Mohammed, Ali and the others will explain "their assessment of American foreign policy," Fenstermaker said.
"Their assessment is negative," he said.
Fenstermaker met with Ali last week at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. He has not spoken with the others but said the men have discussed the trial among themselves.
Critics of Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try the men in a New York City civilian courthouse have warned that the trial would provide the defendants with a propaganda platform.
Department of Justice, said Sunday that while the men may attempt to use the trial to express their views, "we have full confidence in the ability of the courts and in particular the federal judge who may preside over the trial to ensure that the proceeding is conducted appropriately and with minimal disrupton, as federal courts have done in the past."
You mean like this case?
