9/11 Plotters Ask For Death

The 9/11 plotters standing trial in Gitmo have now decided they want to confess their guilt for the cowardly attacks on America and wish to be put to death so they will be viewed as martyrs, according to the article here at Breitbart. What I want to take a look at is what the jihadists said and also, more importantly, what family of the victims said:

Alice Hoagland of Redwood Estates, Calif., told reporters that she hopes Obama, "an even-minded and just man," would ensure the five men are punished, though she believes they should not be executed and become martyrs.
Hoagland's son, Mark Bingham, died on United Flight 93, whose passengers fought hijackers before it crashed in rural Pennsylvania.
"They do not deserve the glory of executions," Hoagland said. "I want these dreadful people to live out their lives in a U.S. prison ... under the control of people they profess to hate."
But Hamilton Peterson, of Bethesda, Md., and whose father and stepmother died on United 93, said the defendants showed a "complete lack of contrition" and deserved to be executed.
Maureen Santora, of Long Island City, N.Y., watched from the back of the courtroom, wearing black and clutching a photo of her son Christopher, a firefighter who died responding to the World Trade Center attacks.
"They were proud to be guilty and that says a lot about them," she said.
At a press conference after the hearing, her husband Alexander held up photos of firefighters, his eyes brimming with tears.
"I know my son is with us," he said, his voice thick. He wore a New York Fire Department cap.

Now, let's look at what was said by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and another of the cowards:

Sporting a chest-length gray beard, Mohammed told the judge in English: "I don't trust you."

"I reaffirm my allegiance to Osama bin Laden," Ramzi Binalshibh blurted out in Arabic at the end of the hearing. "I hope the jihad continues and I hope it hits the heart of America with weapons of mass destruction."

So, good old Mohammed doesn't trust the judge? Ha. It's gonna be fun to know that after his execution, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is going to find out first hand, as he enters the Gates of Hell, that he couldn't trust Mo and allah, either.

Part of me sees the point of the victims' families in NOT having these chumps killed so they spend the rest of their lives under the thumbs of the infidels but I would personally rather have them exterminated quickly so they will find out first hand that they wasted their entire life following a false god and eternity is theirs to gnash their teeth and wail in agony. Don't even ask me what I would consider the just method of execution.

Accused 9/11 plotters say they want to confess

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men charged with coordinating the Sept. 11 attacks say they want to enter guilty pleas, apparently challenging the U.S. government to sentence them to death before President-elect Barack Obama takes office.
The Guantanamo detainees said they decided on Nov. 4—the day Obama was elected—to abandon their defenses in their death-penalty trials. Obama opposes the military war-crimes trials and has pledged to close Guantanamo's detention center, which holds some 250 men.
Mohammed said Monday he will confess to masterminding the attacks that killed 2,975 people. The four other defendants did the same, in effect daring the Pentagon to give them death sentences.
The judge ordered lawyers to advise him by Jan. 4 whether the Pentagon can apply the death penalty—which military prosecutors are seeking—without a jury trial.
Mohammed, who has already told a military panel he was the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, said he has no faith in the judge, his Pentagon-appointed lawyers or President George W. Bush.