9/11 Mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Will Be Allowed to Wear Military-style Camouflage at His Guantánamo Bay Trial

I don't know about you but I've just about had it with Muslim terrorists making their trials out to be some sort of circus event - we have seen it with Nidal Hassan and his insistence that he have a beard for his trial and now, unbelievably, we are seeing the judge in the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial now allowing this sack of shit to be able to wear military-style camouflage fatigues at his hearings.

Why don't they just let him walk in with a flag with a crescent on it?  How about letting KSM hold up a sign that states that Islam will own the U.S.A.?  How about you interrupt the hearing each day so he can climb down on his prayer mat and wail to allah?

Here's what the choice should be for KSM:  wear civilian clothes, wear the Gitmo orange jumpsuit or wear a full length robe made out of pigskin.

The story comes from The Telegraph.

'9/11 mastermind' allowed to wear fatigues at Guantánamo trial


What KSM and four alleged co-conspirators will wear when they eventually appear before a military tribunal has been disputed in pretrial hearings, but his defence argued that he had the right to choose military garb.

"Mr Mohammed is a detained enemy prisoner of war. He wanted to wear the same type of uniform he wore while fighting for the US-supported Mujahedeen in Afghanistan and in Bosnia," argued military lawyer Captain Jason Wright.

The defence also said it would argue that the defendants had not been, as the prosecution alleges, "unlawful combatants" but soldiers and thus denying them the right to military-style clothing would undermine his case.

Prosecutors argued that KSM should not be allowed to wear a uniform for security reasons, but the military judge, Colonel James Pohl, dismissed this concern at the pretrial hearing.

"Look around the room. How many guards are here?" he said.

"I'm not going to forbid the camouflage vest unless it is a US army uniform. The only prohibition – the accused cannot wear clothing inconsistent with his confinement status."

Before Sheikh Mohammed, by his own admission, joined Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network and organised the attacks of September 11, 2001 on New York and Washington, he fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

In that war, the Afghan resistance was backed by foreign Islamist volunteers, supported in turn with weapons and cash by the United States and Saudi Arabia, before some of them went on to become anti-Western militants.