February 11, 2008
Pentagon Charges Six Suspects in 9/11 Plot
The Pentagon has charged six men accused of planning the September 11, 2001 attacks and will seek the death penalty (the Pentagon's terse press release was titled "Defense Department Seeks Death Penalty for Six Guantanamo Bay Detainees"). These would be "the first trials under the terrorism-era military tribunal system."
The defendants will see the evidence and will have similar rights as U.S. soldiers accused of crimes. As for whether evidence and confessions gained through methods, the NY Times reports that a judge will determine whether the evidence can be admitted. Some quotes from Air Force Brigadier General Thomas Hartmann, legal advisor to the Department of Defense's office of Military Commissions:
“These rights are guaranteed to each defendant under the Military Commission Act and are specifically designed to ensure that every defendant receives a fair trial, consistent with American standards of justice...The defendants are Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarek bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Mustafa Ahmed Adam al-Hawsawi, Mohamed al-Kahtani and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (pictured), who was charged with "proposing the operational concept to Osama bin Laden as early as 1996, obtaining approval and funding from bin Laden for the attacks, overseeing the entire operation, and training the hijackers in all aspects of the operation in Afghanistan and Pakistan."“It's our obligation to move the process forward, to give these people their rights. We are going to give them rights. We are going to give them rights that are virtually identical to the rights we provide to our military members, our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who fight in the battlefield, and I think we'll all agree are national treasures.”
Last year, the Pentagon released his apparently confession about admitted feeling sorry for killing so many people and, last week, the Bush administration admitted that Mohammed did undergo waterboarding.
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"As for whether evidence and confessions gained through methods," - ??
Gothamist, I love you! But sometimes it seems like you don't re-read your posts before you post them!
It's about damn time they gave the death penalty to Ron Jeremy. He's been ruining porn movies for decades!
Whats 9/11?
how'd he stretch that collar out so much?
Can the Pentagon charge Bush for attacking an innocent nation, too?
"Last year, the Pentagon released his apparently confession about admitted feeling sorry for killing so many people and, last week, the Bush administration admitted that Mohammed did undergo waterboarding."
Come on Gothamist. Re-read one time before you publish. That's all it takes.
we really are all alike,
hairy.
*Can the Pentagon charge Bush for attacking an innocent nation*
which innocent nation is that?
Can we waterboard people who post the same comment twice?
edEx, I'm looking in your direction.
anyone else having a harder and harder time understanding what these gothamist writers are trying to say? the grammar and careless misspellings really cloud the point sometimes. how capable are your editors at editing content, when they cant even edit ENGLISH.
When this guy gets up in the morning and shaves, how does he know when and where to stop?
is that ron jeremy?
Sheik Nolte?
I'm concerned about how these trials are going to go, in light of what's been revealed about our government's methods of extracting confessions. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed to everything short of fathering Anna Nicole Smith's baby.
In the words of Nice Guy Eddie: "If you beat this prick long enough he'll tell you he started the goddamn Chicago Fire. Now that don't necessarily make it fucking so! Come on! Think!"
Six planners of the attacks are on trial; and the comments here are mostly jokes and/or political diatribes? Am I the only Gothamist who lost loved ones in the attack??? Very revealing.
I vote to kill them slowly.
Somebody needs to dump that guy in a vat of Nair for several hours.
His mother was quoted, "It can't be my son. He was so sweet and kind as a little boy growing up. He use to rescue kittens from the sewers and was an upstanding Christian until drugs took over his life and started hanging with those sand n...... I just don't know what to think anymore."
It might be roids that turned him around and caused his flip to the Cro Magnon look so popular in the middle east today for both men and women.
I didn't lose loved ones on 9/11. I did work with someone who lost cousin at the Pentagon. I can't muster any sympathy for KSM and the gang.
But, sometime since 9/11 (okay, 5 years ago March) we've vacated the moral high ground as our anger overwhelmed our righteousness. Why are we fighting if we can't retain the values we're defending?
Oh, edEx, the innocent nation is Iraq, such as it is.
*iraq was an innocent nation*
while, i believe we should have stayed our course in afghanistan, calling iraq an innocent nation is just plain idiotic.
innocent defined as not involved in 9/11.
whoop dee whoopity doo.
same with calling Israel an innocent nation.
God Damn that guy is hairy and not the good fetish scary hairy type.
almost forgot, someone should shave KEEP SHOPPING
across his back. and,
$600/$1200 across the front.
I'm not a proponent of the death penalty. But for these guys, I say put them in the top floor of a tall building and light it on fire. Then they can jump or burn.
i didn't realize that 9/11 defined how and when we or any other allied nation invade(s) a country that is in essence murderous to their own civilians based on religion... i believe we went there to control oil and help opec etc, but the first invasion (early 90's) was to stop iraq from invading kuwait and gassing civilians..
civilains always get killed during war and it sucks, royally... (WWII is a great example) especially when the enemy uses civilians as a shield i.e. any terrorist org.
i know most of you do not want to hear any of that, but honestly it's exactly how it is... if we have to torture the enemy to obtain secrets etc, so be it!