All Five 9/11 Hijackers To Plead Guilty - Dare The U.S. To Send Them To Allah
We should oblige as soon as possible.
All five of the Guantnamo detainees charged with planning and coordinating the Sept. 11 attacks have asked a military judge to accept their confessions in full. The request appeared to be intended to cut short any effort to try them, and to challenge the United States government to put them to death.
At the start of what had been expected to be routine proceedings Monday, the military judge, Col. Steven Henley, disclosed that he had received a written statement from the five men. The statement said the five planned to stop filing written motions and instead “to announce our confessions to plea in full.”
As he questioned one of the men, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has described himself as the mastermind of the 2001 attacks, Judge Henley of the United States Army asked whether Mr. Mohammmed was prepared to enter pleas to the charges against him today. “Yes,” Mr. Mohammed answered brusquely.
“We don’t want to waste our time with motions,” Mr. Mohammed said. “All of you are paid by the U.S. government. I’m not trusting any American.”
KSM doesn’t trust any American. As well he shouldn’t.
The move is to try to get some publicity before they are handed the cigarettes and blindfolds.
In addition, a move to cut short the proceedings had been seen by some lawyers working in the system here as a way Mr. Mohammed and the other men could draw maximum public attention to their cases and, potentially, to make statements about their political views without the government having the opportunity to detail their acts, including the specifics of the plot that caused the deaths of nearly 3,000 people, in court.
Handling this little stunt is child’s play. These guys are cooked and they know it. Take their pleas. Then take them out back and shoot them like dogs.
Nothing to see here. Move along.