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Photographs of, at left, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and at right, (top row left) Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, (top row right) Waleed bin Attash, (bottom row left) Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi and (bottom row right) Ramzi Binalshibh from the AP
After U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that five of the plotters behind the September 11 attacks—including mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed—would be tried in federal court in lower Manhattan, the reaction has ranged from the outraged and upset to the relieved. Retired deputy fire chief Jim Riches, whose firefighter son while responding to the World Trade Center's fires, told the NY Times, "Let them come to New York. Let them get on trial. Let’s do it the right way, for all the world to see what they’re like. Let’s go. It’s been too long. Let’s get some justice."
However, Judea Pearl, father of kidnapped and brutally murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, had a different reaction; he told the Post that he was "sick to the stomach" about the decision, "I don't want to hear every morning in the papers what KSM did. Danny was killed once. Now he will be killed 10 times a day. Leave him alone... The 21st century saw three shocks. The first was 9/11. The second was the killing of my son. And the third was the shock today."
Lawmakers were also split: Rep. Peter King (R-Long Island) said, “We should not be increasing the danger of another terrorist strike against Americans at home and abroad," but Rep. Jerrold Nadler (R-NYC) emphasized, "New York is not afraid of terrorists. Any suggestion that our prosecutors and our law enforcement personnel are not up to the task of safely holding and successfully prosecuting terrorists on American soil is insulting and untrue."
Whenever the trial does begin, there will be a lot of security downtown: The Daily News reports:
"Rooftop snipers, armored vehicles and lock-down zones around the Pearl Street courthouse are part of the plan to insure safety during the trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his cohorts. Security will include 24-hour fixed canine posts and a counterassault team car - an unmarked bulletproof SUV in the area.And Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said, "It's highly appropriate that those accused in the deaths of nearly 3,000 human beings in New York City be tried here, and the NYPD is prepared for the security required."The NYPD's heavily armed Hercules teams will lock down and sweep the area before suspects are moved from the federal lockup to the courtroom via a not-so-secret underground tunnel."
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By the way, is it just me or does he look like a Furby now? We can refer to him as Satanic Furby.
So where the hell is Osama bin Laden? Did he strike up some sort of deal getting himself off the hook?
Dude Osama Bin Laden is not alive. Clearly they are not going to tell you that though.
I think it's irrelevant whether he's alive or not.
It's not as if it would suddenly be peace and love and sunshine if he's dead.
He seems to be with us in the picture on the left, erroneously tagged as Sheikh Mohammed.
He's in Monaco having dinner and reading The Economist.
Sadly he probably is. The guy is still an oil billionaire and his family probably struck some deals.
I hate to sound so cynical, but it seems if the us just wants the bin laden thing to dissapear into the ether of criminals that they hope the public just forgets about.
Osama Bin Laden's family has zero oil money. His father became very rich during the Saudi construction boom of the 1970s. His construction company built the roads, airports, buildings, housing, etc. when the country had money to burn and very little infrastructure. The oil belongs, by law, to the royal family (Saudi), not the nation nor it's citizens.
i just told you he's dead, you fuck.
Jen, you need to correct the following sentence. "Retired deputy fire chief Jim Riches, whose firefighter son while responding to the World Trade Center's fires," Jim Riches' son, also named Jim, died while fighting the World Trade Center fire.
The banality of evil. Huge amount of harm can come from people that would normally be considered the losers of this world.
These guys are sexually repressed misogynists (probably self-loathing homosexuals). Bitter and frustrated because they can't get laid here on earth and their religion taught them that they were the lords of all creation yet their people forgot the tenets of civilization and now can only learn to destroy never create, including the great technology that runs our world today.
They should have executed him after they got whatever information they needed out of him.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed sure looks the blushing bride in that wedding photo.
This drama will last as long as the rebuilding of the WTC, neverending, w/ all sorts of attention-seekers weighing in to get thier names in the paper. There is no reason why these fanatic scumbags should not be tried, and convicted, and sentenced, and imprisoned, in New York, since this is where thier hideous crimes played out.
Anyone who whines otherwise is simply trying to further thier own stupid agendas.
Absolutely disgusting.
The Obama administration is employing their pre-911 mentality by treating an act of war as a common crime. These terrorists deserve to be tries in a military court, not a civil court!
This is going to be a mess.
"pre-911 mentality "
We need more of that. You know: rule of law, recognizing complexity, not being driven by fear. all that messy stuff.
Fuck 'em.