Well, this article at the Christian Science Monitor does a little better job of portraying the behavior of these jihadis, these killers of American innocents, yesterday at their arraignment - where they protested and stalled and made a sham of things.
I've said it many times - give Khalid Sheikh Mohammed a choice - let him go through the military tribunal system of justice for the crimes he has been accused of in regards to the 9/11 attacks or let him be freed from the back of a truck on a city street in New York City and see if he can make it back to the homecoming overseas with his al Qaeda brothers. What do you think KSM would choose? A trial where he can grandstand and act out in front of the world's press or a release where he will get to meet members of the FDNY, family members of 9/11 victims and in general, Americans who would just love an upclose encounter with him?
Act out all you want KSM - your buddies, Barack Hussein Obama and Eric Holder, failed to get you that sure fire release from a civilian court, and now you will feel the sting of justice. And believe me, there are plenty of Americans who will promise you that you will feel the vengeance of our people and the vengeance of the one true G_d.
World watches as 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others go on trial
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, CUBA
The alleged mastermind of the 911 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was brought before a military judge on Saturday and refused not only to answer routine questions in open court, but also refused to listen to a simultaneous Arabic translation of the proceeding.
Instead, Mr. Mohammed and his co-defendants, accused of plotting the most lethal terrorist attack in US history, sought to use the proceeding to stage a protest.
Like Mohammed, several of the defendants took their earphones off as the arraignment was getting underway.
On full display before a packed courtroom on the US Navy base here, Mohammed seemed almost disinterested as he was confronted with charges that he conceived, planned, and directed a 19-man suicide mission that left nearly 3,000 dead on September 11, 2001.
Mohammed appeared in a white robe with a long and bushy red henna-stained beard. On his head, he wore the white turban of a mullah and his forehead showed a prayer bruise common among devout Muslims. It was the first time in three years he’d been seen in public.
The appearance came amid security so tight that reporters were not permitted to bring their own pens into a press viewing area separated from the courtroom by thick glass.
Mohammed’s four codefendants adopted the same posture of passive defiance, repeatedly refusing to acknowledge the presence of the military judge or the gravity of the capital charges filed against them.
“I believe Mr. Mohammed will decline to address the court. I believe he is deeply concerned about the fairness of the proceeding,” Defense Attorney David Nevin told the judge.
He added: “The world is watching.”
The occasion was meant to be an arraignment, a routine opportunity for the defendants to be apprised of the charges filed against them and to set the stage for an eventual trial.
But nothing in the case of United States v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has been routine.
If it proceeds to trial, the Mohammed case could become the most important US war crimes tribunal since Nuremberg. But unlike the adjudication of alleged Nazi war criminals after World War II, the Mohammed trial is tainted by the CIA’s use of extremely harsh interrogation tactics in the Bush administration’s war on terrorism.
That history complicates any effort to bring Mohammed and his alleged coconspirators to justice. Critics of the military commission process say it is a rigged system designed to allow the introduction of coerced evidence and hearsay that would be excluded from a trial in federal court.
Military prosecutors insist they can make their case without relying on evidence gathered through excessively coercive interrogations and torture.
Mohammed and his alleged co-conspirators are facing eight charges, including conspiring to commit acts of terrorism, murder, hijacking, as well as intentional attacks on civilians and civilian property.
If convicted, all five face a death sentence.
Mohammed’s appearance at Guantánamo on Saturday marks yet another reversal in the on-again, off-again military commission process.
He and the four others were arraigned by a different military judge in June 2008. Mohammed used that occasion to accuse the US government of torturing him. He also rejected his court-appointed lawyer.
This time he remained silent, allowing his lawyer to do the talking.
Like the defendants, defense counsel also seemed to be acting in coordination, as if they might be auditioning for their militant clients. Defense counsel repeatedly interrupted the judge, US Army Col. James Pohl, while trying to argue pre-trial motions seeking to have the charges thrown out.
At one point, reporters viewing the courtroom saw Mohammed smile slightly as a lawyer expressed concern about taking an oath to serve a military commission process that the lawyer said he viewed as unfair.
3 comments:
Justice would be a guard looking the other way and a quick bullet in his head. No hate spewed speeches no grandstanding just a quick shot from teh mystery gunner
Justice would be a guard looking the other way and a quick bullet in his head. No hate spewed speeches no grandstanding just a quick shot from teh mystery gunner
Now to find out that during all the commotion that they raised during the court proceedings the lawyer for the defense (while wearing the hajib) wanted the females in the courtroom to "respect her client's beliefs" and cover themselves. Ehat dhimmitude.
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