Leaked photo of Khalid Shiekh Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9-11 attacks
These men are enemies of the US, not citizens or residents who committed a few murders. They don’t belong in a courtroom — they belong in a military tribunal, and at the end of a rope afterwards. KSM didn’t commit his “crime” in the US, after all; he committed it abroad, outside of the normal jurisdiction of the American court system.From the New York Times:
WASHINGTON — Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and four other men accused in the plot will be prosecuted in federal court in New York City, the United States attorney general announced Friday.
For those of you who don’t realize why this is so insane, consider these few things:
- KSM has already confessed and asked to be martyred – So why don’t we grant him that right? Justice will be served. Instead we have a lengthy show trial put on display at the expense of the American public.
- What evidence? – What evidence do we REALLY have on him? Most of it is probably circumstantial based on eye-witness accounts and testimonies from informants. How do you PROVE beyond a shadow of a doubt that he’s guily of “masterminding” the 9-11 attacks? The defense has so much to work off of it’s not even fair.
- These are not normal criminals. KSM wasn’t arrested the same way all criminals are arrested. He wasn’t read his Miranda rights, wasn’t given a lawyer, wasn’t given a phone call, wasn’t given the other NORMAL procedural rights given to a prisoner being held by the justice system. He was also subjected to enhanced interrogations. I can picture it now…”My Client was TORTURED!” There is a HUGE potential for the defense to use these arguments during trial claiming unfair and/or harsh treament which could ultimately lead to crucial evidence being dismissed from the case.
- The danger of exposing our intelligence community – What’s going to happen? Will CIA and FBI agents be forced to testify? Will their identities be revealed? Will the judge allow classified intelligence allowed in as evidence to be brought forth to the public? The potential for this show trial is damning when you think about how it could expose our intelligence services tactics and thought process. When this kind of sensitive information goes public, it puts our country at greater risk, especially those who work within the intelligence community.
- A Platform at Ground Zero to mock the 9-11 victims and their families – Just imagine the ridiculous defense tactics that will be used by the well-funded (You know for sure some left wing group will defend them (maybe Eric Holder’s old firm? They’ve got the experience). It’s a disgrace that a public platform will be used in the heart of manhatten to make a mockery of the suffering of 9-11 victims’ families.
Here is more reaction around the country…
“So: We are now going to have a trial that never had to happen for defendants who have no defense. And when defendants have no defense for their own actions, there is only one thing for their lawyers to do: put the government on trial in hopes of getting the jury (and the media) spun up over government errors, abuses and incompetence. That is what is going to happen in the trial of KSM et al.
It will be a soapbox for al-Qaeda’s case against America. Since that will be their “defense,” the defendants will demand every bit of information they can get about interrogations, renditions, secret prisons, undercover operations targeting Muslims and mosques, etc., and – depending on what judge catches the case – they are likely to be given a lot of it.
The administration will be able to claim that the judge, not the administration, is responsible for the exposure of our defense secrets. And the circus will be played out for all to see – in the middle of the war. It will provide endless fodder for the transnational Left to press its case that actions taken in America’s defense are violations of international law that must be addressed by foreign courts. And the intelligence bounty will make our enemies more efficient at killing us.”
“It is inconceivable that we would bring these alleged terrorists back to New York for trial, to the scene of the carnage they created eight years ago, and give them a platform to mock the suffering of their victims and the victims’ families, and rally their followers to continue waging jihad against America.”
Criminal defense attorneys will now enter into delaying tactics and other methods in the hope of securing some kind of win for their “clients.” The trial will afford Mohammed the opportunity to grandstand and make use of his time in front of the world media to rally his disgusting terrorist cohorts. It will also be an insult to the victims of 9/11, as Mohammed will no doubt use the opportunity to spew his hateful rhetoric in the same neighborhood in which he ruthlessly cut down the lives of so many Americans.
It is crucially important that Americans be made aware that the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks may walk away from this trial without receiving just punishment because of a “hung jury” or from any variety of court room technicalities. If we are stuck with this terrible Obama Administration decision, I, like most Americans, hope that Mohammed and his co-conspirators are convicted. Hang ‘em high.
Senator John Cornyn(R- TX)
“These terrorists planned and executed the mass murder of thousands of innocent Americans,” he said. “Treating them like common criminals is unconscionable.”
Senator Jim Webb (D – VA)
“…They do not belong in our country, they do not belong in our courts, and they do not belong in our prisons…”
Returning some of the Guantanamo detainees to New York City for trial, specifically Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, has now brought us full circle — we have regressed to a pre-9/11 mentality with respect to Islamic extremist terrorism. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed should be treated like the war criminal he is and tried in a military court. He is not just another murderer, or even a mass murderer. He murdered as part of a declared war against us — America.
This is the same mistake we made with the 1993 terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center. We treated them like domestic criminals, when in fact they were terrorists. In the dangerous world we live in today, a nation unable to identify and properly define its enemies is a nation in danger.
Folks, stop and think of what’s going to happen here. “Nothing results in more disclosures of government intelligence than civilian trials. They are a banquet of information, not just at the discovery stage but in the trial process itself, where witnesses — intelligence sources — must expose themselves and their secrets.” But it’s even worse than this. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his confederates have no defense.
They have admitted this! They asked to be executed and martyred last December. They wanted to go meet Allah and the 73 virgins. They have no defense. What’s going to end up on trial here — and this is the insidious part — what’s going to end up on trial here is the United States, the CIA, and our interrogation techniques. All of this is being done to satisfy the rabid, radical, far left that hates this country; that hates George W. Bush; that hates the US military.
These men are enemies of the US, not citizens or residents who committed a few murders. They don’t belong in a courtroom — they belong in a military tribunal, and at the end of a rope afterwards. KSM didn’t commit his “crime” in the US, after all; he committed it abroad, outside of the normal jurisdiction of the American court system.
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