Twelve Bloody Years After the 9/11 Attacks and His Khalid Sheik Mohammed Going To Go Free?

The fact that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks on America, is still sucking oxygen on this planet is one of the biggest outrages in the history of Man and now, with a bunch of liberal judges and military court prosecutors doing their best to be politically correct, it appears that KSM and his gang of Gitmo slugs are going to see a trial that is going to pussy foot all over some of the most aggregious charges.

From the article at The Telegraph:

However, Brig Gen Mark Martins, the chief prosecutor, said the charge of conspiracy should be dropped because it was no longer "legally viable" following a court ruling that conspiracy – a charge that seeks to punish suspects for association with al-Qaeda – was not a recognised war crime under international law. This meant it could not legitimately be brought before a war-crimes tribunal such as Guantánamo.

The ruling by an appeals court in Washington DC overturned the conviction against Osama bin Laden's driver, Salim Hamdan, and has also undermined the conviction of Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, who made al-Qaeda propaganda films.

I have a simple question.  What in the sam hell does international law have to do with how the United States of America deals with the prosecution of the murderer of 3,000 of our people?  KSM's plot was committed on American soil against American citizens - the only law that matters is American law and if our laws state that an affiliation of someone with al Qaeda makes you a conspirator, then you are a conspirator.  And I could give a shit less what some liberal hippie judge has to say in Washington, D.C.

Fry this motherfucker.

September 11 trial threatened by legal dispute


The US defence department is at loggerheads with the chief prosecutor at Guantánamo Bay over what the charges should be. The five men, whose pretrial hearings reconvene at the naval base next week, face eight different charges.

However, Brig Gen Mark Martins, the chief prosecutor, said the charge of conspiracy should be dropped because it was no longer "legally viable" following a court ruling that conspiracy – a charge that seeks to punish suspects for association with al-Qaeda – was not a recognised war crime under international law. This meant it could not legitimately be brought before a war-crimes tribunal such as Guantánamo.

The ruling by an appeals court in Washington DC overturned the conviction against Osama bin Laden's driver, Salim Hamdan, and has also undermined the conviction of Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, who made al-Qaeda propaganda films.

Gen Martins said retaining the conspiracy charges against the September 11 suspects could leave the prosecution open to "legal challenge" and cause "uncertainty and delay". However, Guantánamo Bay's "convening authority" – a branch of the Pentagon – said it would be "premature" to drop the conspiracy charges, hoping that the Supreme Court might reinstate their legality.



Richard Kammen, the lead counsel for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who was convicted in Yemen over the bombing of USS Cole but is also facing conspiracy charges at Guantánamo, said the government had seriously undermined Gen Martins's position as chief prosecutor. "The sub-context of this is, 'Who's in charge?' And to what extent does Gen Martins have any real authority in this case, other than to give speeches?" said Mr Kammen.

He added that preserving the conspiracy charges could open the door to an appeal against all the charges being faced by the September 11 co-conspirators and al-Nashiri. "If one of the main charges was conspiracy, and that was reversed, you would expect the appellate court to recognise that so impacted the rest of the trial that any other conviction would have to be reversed as well," he said.

Gen Martins has indicated that he plans to press ahead with his request by petitioning the military judge in the September 11 trial to strike out conspiracy as a separate charge.

That would present the judge, Col James Pohl, 61, with the unenviable choice of either denying the requests of both defence and prosecution lawyers, or overruling his court's own convening authority.

Col Morris Davis, a former Guantánamo chief prosecutor who resigned in 2007 in protest at the Pentagon meddling in the tribunals, said the dispute between two major government departments undermined the credibility of the tribunals.

He suggested that the government was clinging to the conspiracy charges because they were needed in cases against many of the detainees.

"They don't need conspiracy charges in the major cases like the September 11 attacks, where they are just a safety net or fallback charge," he said. "The problem is that for a lot of lesser cases, that's about all you could ever charge with."

Federal District Judge Bows To Islam and Terrorism...Will Khalid Sheik Mohammed Get To Meet With His Brothers Five Times a Day Outside His Cell?

The judge's name is Jane Magnus-Stinson.  Her photo is above.  She bowed to Islamic terrorism.  She spat on the graves of 3,000 dead Americans.

It's a good thing that Islam doesn't call for the daily practice of sacrificing a virgin infidel.  Oh wait....

The article comes from Family Security Matters.

Court Rules in Favor of the Taliban


A federal district judge, Jane Magnus-Stinson ruled that the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act applies even to convicted terrorists in prison. John Walker Lindh, also known as "The American Taliban" sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons for the right to congregate with other Islamic terrorists in the Communications Management Unit of the federal prison, in Terre Haute, Indiana. Lindh who was captured in 2001 fighting alongside Taliban members in Afghanistan is serving a twenty year sentence for collaboration with the terrorist organization in fighting against U.S. forces.

At his sentencing he told authorities that he went to Afghanistan to help establish an

Islamic state, in accordance with the Taliban ideology. He has been in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons since 2002 held under strict Administrative Measures (SAMs) that control his movement within the prison.

U.S. Attorney Joe Hogsett who represented the government in the lawsuit and prison security officials

contended that allowing Lindh and other inmates to meet outside their cells five times a day was a serious threat to the security at the prison as well as to the outside world. Prison officials gave testimony that Lindh's group of Muslim inmates were acting more akin to a Gang, issuing intimidation and threats to other inmates, then a bonafide religious group. Furthermore prior cases, such as that of El Sayyid Nosair, demonstrated that terrorists often used their religious privileges in the prison environment to conspire to commit acts of terrorism beyond the prison walls. Nosair was an inmate in Attica state prison in 1993 when he conspired with Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman to bomb the World Trade Center killing six and injuring over one thousand civilians. Nosair used his position as the Chaplain's clerk and the freedom it gave him to be out of his cell to forge the plan for the act of violence.

Judge Mangus-Stinson in the ruling felt that the law, which was passed to protect against undue burdens being placed upon citizens in the free exercise of their religious beliefs by the government, extends to radical ideology such as Lindh and the Taliban hold.

Some examples of that ideology were the public stoning of women who were raped and the execution of non-believers.

If the ruling is allowed to stand it may then be applied to prisoners being held in Guantanamo. That would mean that Kahlid Sheik Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on the United States, would be able to meet with his fellow terrorists outside his cell five times a day to "pray"

Why is it that the average citizen can see this decision as insanity and yet the ACLU and the other inmate rights advocates do not? We are not talking about abridging or forbidding the exercise of religion. We are talking about preventing the abuse of such rights by jailed terrorists who want destroy this country.

The Judges description of John Walker as "a low security prisoner who wishes to engage in a brief communal activity with other inmates" make him appear to be docile, socially pleasant, and non-threatening. That narrative almost makes you want to invite him over for coffee.

Judge Stinson overlooks the fact that he is a terrorist and that when he was initially held in a military prison near Mazār-e Sharīf in Afghanistan a riot broke out and CIA officer Johnny "Michael" Spann was killed by the inmates. The riot began shortly after Spann had conducted an interview of Lindh.

The Court it seems cannot discern between a genuine rehabilitation and someone who has become "jail-wise" after more than ten years in the system Prison officials and security experts must be given the leeway to administer measures which prevent convicted terrorists from acting again.

Anything less would be an insult to the memory of those who gave their lives in the fight against terrorism.

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.

Everyone Wants To Know....Who the Hell Is Gitmo Defense Attorney Cheryl Bormann?

My friend, Diane, over at Freedom's Wings Politics was kind enough to let me post her article from today on the whore defense attorney at the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed....you know, the bitch who wants all women in the court to bow to Islam like her and wear a damn hijab.

Anyway, here's the amazing article from Freedom's Wings Politics.

Who is Attorney Cheryl Bormann?

By
Diane Student
Published: May 6, 2012


Civilian defense attorney Cheryl Bormann has gained notoriety she may not have expected by first, being willing to defend terrorists who killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens and secondly, by wearing a full hijab into the courtroom on Saturday during the Arraignment Hearing of the 9/11 conspirators and requesting the court make the other women involved in the trial dress likewise out of respect for her vile terrorist client. Bormann is paid by the Pentagon and so paid by the taxpayers to defend pure scum. I find myself wondering why a women abusing, raping and hating Islamist is allowing a woman to represent him. I also wonder where the feminists and NOW are when it comes to telling this woman that she should not bow to these male Islamists. That she should hold onto her vaginal power!

So who exactly is Cheryl Bormann? Would you be surprised to find out that she comes from Cook County Illinois? Yes Cook County, the cess pool from which Obama, Soros and the Marxists draw their minions. Here is her Linked In profile. Her current field is described as such, “Criminal defense of complex capital cases involving the application of international, war crimes, and constitutional law.” Cheryl Bormann has both experience in international law and constitutional law? Obviously, her views on constitutional law I assume run along the same lines as Obama. Anyone who is an expert in constitutional law would know that international law means squat to America despite the Globalists best attempts to bring it into our courts. We were attacked on our land by people who were criminal invaders in this land having overstayed Visas and such. I worry that Cheryl Bormann may want to bring international law into the court, which would keep us from the justice we would have putting these vermin to death cause the majority of the world does not practice capital punishment.

Bormann said during the arraignment that, “All I can do is try and protect my client’s rights to every extent I can and try and hold the government to their burden to provide a fair and transparent justice system and to actually mean it.” Her client’s rights according to who? These are not American citizens and they are being tried by military tribunal, which means the rules of tribunals are to be followed. She also stated, “There are issues with respect to cultural sensitivity here” and “these men have been mistreated.” Really Ms. Bormann? Your client and his fellow terrorists had no respect in the courtroom for the rules of a tribunal. They prayed during the hearing, would not wear earpieces that were translators and refused to speak.

This is a woman who cheered Gov. Pat Quinn for signing into law in March of 2011 the ban on the death penalty in Illinois, eradicating the necessity of a defense lawyer like herself who specialized in capital cases. Bormann also works as an educator for the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago founded by Carolyn Pereira, who formerly worked with Deliberating in a Democracy, an international program to teach students how to deliberate controversial public issues. This organization, Deliberating in a Democracy, is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Healthy Students. Awards #Q304A040003 and #Q304A070005. Splendid, eh? And this organization is linked to the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago, the Constitutional Rights Foundation and something called Street Law. What is Street Law? Their website states, “Street Law, Inc. creates classroom and community programs that teach people about law, democracy, and human rights worldwide. Our engaging, practical lessons help people develop skills to improve their lives and strengthen their communities.” Sounds like community organizing to me.

This could just be six degrees of seperation and Cheryl Bormann is just some idiot politcally correct lawyer, but what I do know for sure is that she represents where this country is headed as Sharia Law makes its way into Florida courts and Dearborn, Michigan becomes a wasteland of Islam. I plan to dig deeper to find out why this woman was “chosen” after the Obama administration failed to take these trials to a civilian court.

9/11 Jihadis and Mastermind KSM Protest At Arraignment

You know, I spent about an hour trying to find a source for an update on yesterday's arraignment proceedings in the military tribunal hearing against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four of the other 9/11 jihadis and the reason it took me that long is because I had to WADE THROUGH THE FUCKING APOLOGIST MAIN STREAM MEDIA CRYING GAME FOR THE TREATMENT OF THESE MASS MURDERERS.  I pulled up a CNN article that has this heavy hitting title ...something like ..."9/11 Victim's Brother Tells KSM 'I came to see you eye to eye' " and then the article goes into a bunch of mamby pamby crap about our justice system and that they need a fair trial and that KSM was in "charge" at this arraignment yesterday.  I'm telling you...my blood pressure approached 220/160.

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.

AG Holder Announces That Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Will Face Military Trial Then Goes Off On Congress For Taking His Circus Public Trial Away from Him

I tell you what folks, I'm so fucking sick of one Eric Holder I could about bust a vein here. This clown is the WORST Attorney General this country has ever had at the helm...this is a man whose heart belongs to terrorists and criminals - this is a man with the ultimate legal arm in the country and he is an enabler of violence, of murder, of terror and of intimidation. I've had it.

Well, today ...poor little Eric Holder got all pissed off because he had to announce that the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was being sent over to the Department of Defense so that the mastermind of 9/11 would face a military council trial. And instead of just doing that and eating some crow, the Attorney General took the opportunity to whine and bitch about the fact that Congress took his little pet project of displaying this madman in a federal court in New York City.

Eric Holder and Barack Hussein Obama are pissed as hell because they can't showcase this terror trial across the world and then use the fact that Mohammed would get off on a technicality as a wedge for their popularity with Muslims across this world. Well, I'll tell you what Mr. Holder....Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has the blood of 3,000 Americans on his hands and if your trial had gone forward AND he would have gotten off....Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would not have left this country. Bank on that.

Here's the article on crybaby Eric Holder from Fox News:

Holder Blames Congress for Forcing Hand on Military Commissions for 9/11 Detainees


Congress tied the Obama administration's hands in trying the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and his accomplices, Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday, announcing that he was left without a choice and has referred the cases to the Defense Department for trial.

In stark language, Holder lambasted Congress for imposing restrictions blocking any detainees from being tried in the U.S., saying that the "unwise and unwarranted restrictions" undermine the U.S. in counter-intelligence and counter-terror efforts.

Expressing his disappointment in no uncertain terms, the attorney general said that as a native New Yorker, he knows as well as anyone the federal court's capacity to try the suspects. He added that he's intimately familiar with the cases, much moreso than congressional members -- or the public -- who opposed allowing the cases to be held in the United States.

"Do I know better than them? Yes. I respect their ability to disagree but they should respect that this is an executive branch function, a unique executive branch function," Holder said in a press conference.

As a result, Holder said Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, since 2006, after being captured in Pakistan in 2003, and four alleged Sept. 11 co-conspirators will face prosecution by a military commission in Guantanamo.

"Prosecutors from both the Departments of Defense and Justice have been working together since the beginning of this matter, and I have full faith and confidence in the military commission system to appropriately handle this case as it proceeds," Holder said.

The other terror suspects are Walid Muhammed Salih Mubarak Bin Attash, Ramzi Bin Al Shibh, Ali Abdul-Aziz Ali and Mustafa Ahmed Al Hawsawi. The five detainees are accused of killing 2,976 people -- all named in an 81-page indictment dismissed and unsealed Monday by a federal judge.

"Because a timely prosecution in federal court does not appear feasible, the attorney general intends to refer this matter to the Department of Defense to proceed in military commissions," reads the order to dismiss signed by U.S. District Judge Kevin Duffy.

Click here to read the unsealed indictment.

Click here to read the order to unseal the indictment.

The decision to return the detainees to a military commission is a reversal from Holder, who announced in November 2009 that he would move the trials to a civilian court in the United States. Supporters said it sent the right message to the rest of the world that U.S. courts were the fairest and best venue for trials.

At the time, President Obama said it was Holder's decision. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Monday's decision again remained with Holder.

"The president's primary concern here is that the perpetrators ... of that terrible attack on the American people be brought to justice as swiftly as possible and as fairly as possible," Carney said before Holder's remarks.

After Holder's original announcement, attempts to place the suspects in a New York City courtroom were met with fierce resistance from area residents who said they didn't want to deal with another possible terror threat in downtown Manhattan that the case would bring. A potential plan to house the suspects in a prison in Thomson, Ill., also faced considerable scrutiny.

During the lame-duck session last December, Congress acted to prevent the federal trials by attached to a defense authorization bill provisions that prohibited detainees from being brought to trial in the United States.

Family members of the victims said they were pleased with Holder's decision despite his reasoning.

"I am frankly shocked by the attorney general's comments," said David Beamer, the father of Todd Beamer, who is credited with preventing United Flight 93 from hitting its target. The plane instead crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pa.

"I guess one of my reactions is is I'm thankful there are three branches of government because the last thing I want to see is KSM returning to New York City for a civilian trial," Beamer said.

Debra Burlingame, head of 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America, said the group is "relieved" Obama "abandoned his plan" to bring the conspirators to U.S. soil.

"We are grateful to the president for reversing his decision, conveyed to the families just last month, to go forward with civilian trials and seek repeal of congressional legislation that stripped funding for that effort," said Burlingame, whose brother was the pilot aboard American Airlines Flight 77, which was forced into the Pentagon on Sept. 11.

"We have great confidence in the military commissions legal framework, which is fair, lawful, effective and consistent with our tradition and values as a nation," she said.

New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, said that the military commissions are the appropriate place for the trials.

"This means with certainty that the trial will not be in New York. While not unexpected, this is the final nail in the coffin of that wrong-headed idea," Schumer said.

But ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero, which vehemently opposes military courts, said the Obama administration's decision "is completely wrong."

"There is a reason this system is condemned: it is rife with constitutional and procedural problems and undermines the fundamental American values that have made us a model throughout the world for centuries. Attorney General Holder's previous decision to try the 9/11 defendants in federal court was absolutely the right call but this flip flop on the part of the Obama administration is devastating for the rule of law and greatly undermines America's standing abroad," Romero said.

J.D. Gordon, a former Defense Department spokesman for secretaries Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Gates, said trusting the civilian jury with some of the most dangerous terror suspects "is really a flawed mistake." Gordon noted that Mohammed and the other co-conspirators were already going through the military commission process before the Obama administration halted the case.

"I think they ran into the buzz saw of reality where the American public didn't see it in their best interest to hold Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian trial where he could theoretically be acquitted there and also where he'd have a chance to have his rhetoric used against us," Gordon said.

With the case now returning to the military commission, the process will start all over again. After the administration announced in 2009 it planned to move the trials to federal court, the military withdrew its charges without prejudice -- an action that effectively allowed it to preserve its legal position so that if the cases returned to the commissions in the future, the men could be charged again.

Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Holder should try to have more faith in the military commission process.

"The United States has a long history of successfully utilizing military tribunals dating back to the American Revolution, and it's why Congress set up the military commission process. Instead of taking this opportunity to blame Congress for preventing the 9/11 terrorists from having civilian trials, the administration should assure Americans that it will keep all terrorists off U.S. soil and utilize the military commission process in Guantanamo Bay to its full extent," Grassley said.

As the Justice Department prepared to announce its reversal, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday also decided to pass on a case that would have further determined the legal rights of the detainees kept at Guantanamo Bay.

The justices turned away a petition asking them to establish the standards of evidence lower court judges should use to determine if the detainees can remain locked up while waiting for their cases to be heard.

New Osama bin Laden Audio Threatens To Kill Americans If Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Is Executed For 9/11 Crimes

Osama bin Laden reared his ugly head once again and has released a new audio that makes this threat:

Al Qaeda will kill any American that it captures if 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is executed by America.

Wow. Now isn't that "huge" news?!! Imagine, al Qaeda might not treat an American prisoner to the usual birthday party, complete with cake and falafel and party hats if KSM is hung from a NYC lamp post! They will kill that prisoner! How shocking, huh? Okay, I'll take off my sarc hat here, but for crying out loud, tell us something new, bin Laden.

From the report at VoiceOfAmerica:

Osama bin Laden is threatening to kill any American captured by al-Qaida if the United States executes the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.The Arabic television network al Jazeera aired an audiotape on Thursday, in which bin Laden explicitly mentions Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is set to be tried in a U.S. federal court or military tribunal.

In the audio message, bin Laden also said U.S. President Barack Obama is following in the footsteps of his predecessor, George W. Bush, by escalating the war in Afghanistan, oppressing al-Qaida prisoners, and supporting Israel in its "occupation of Palestinian land."

At this point, I figure bin Laden might just welcome an execution for himself by America as he sits through about his ninth year of living off of bugs and twigs, the whole time his kidneys continuing to shut down. Why not release a video tape, bin Laden? LOL

Now, I realize that many of my readers think bin Laden is dead and has been for a long time but I've yet to hear of one CIA report that these audio tapes are forged and until then, I'm gonna treat the scum as alive. But, the lack of any viable video of this clown confirms to me that the guy is a shell of a man, physically - more than likely he needs a drool cup to utter even the simplest message. And by the way, since I'm on the subject...has anyone noticed how there has been ZIP from al Qaeda #2 Ayman al-Zawahiri in the past six months? Hmmm...I wonder....the old Egyptian physician with the penchant for young boys was pretty much releasing videos about once a month up until....oh wait...did a couple of hellfires come a little too close to your bony ass, Ayman?

Bin Laden Warns US Against Executing 9/11 Mastermind


Osama bin Laden is threatening to kill any American captured by al-Qaida if the United States executes the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

The Arabic television network al Jazeera aired an audiotape on Thursday, in which bin Laden explicitly mentions Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is set to be tried in a U.S. federal court or military tribunal.

Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators could face the death penalty for charges that include murder and terrorism in connection with the 2001 attacks on the U.S.

In the audio message, bin Laden also said U.S. President Barack Obama is following in the footsteps of his predecessor, George W. Bush, by escalating the war in Afghanistan, oppressing al-Qaida prisoners, and supporting Israel in its "occupation of Palestinian land."

There was no immediate independent verification of the recording's authenticity.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs did not respond directly to the comments Thursday, but said the Obama administration will keep up the pressure to destroy the al-Qaida network.

The U.S.-based IntelCenter that monitors terrorist propaganda, said bin Laden's threat could signal an increased kidnapping risk targeting Americans during the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in the U.S.

Could This Be A Prelude To The KSM Trial In NYC?

We better watch this one closely because it might just be a preview of coming attractions as in the KSM trial that would be held in the same venue...New York City.

From (gag) The New York Times:

A New York City judge is set to hear arguments Monday before deciding if a terror suspect's rights were violated when he was held at Guantanamo Bay instead of being prosecuted promptly in a U.S. court.
Lawyers for Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani (guh-LAHN'-ee) say the government erred by letting him be questioned for three years in the Cuban detention camp before he was moved to New York, where he becomes the first Guantanamo prisoner prosecuted in a civilian U.S. court.
Ghailani is accused of deadly bombings at two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998.

Oh, and what possible defense might the U.S. prosecution be using for why the delay in Ghailani's trial? Take a look:

Prosecutors say the delay in bringing him to trial was to get information from him and protect the United States.

Pardon the sarcasm, but we sure wouldn't want the protection of the American people to get in the way of Liberal justice in this country.

But seriously, this case will break some ground and if this does not go well for the prosecution, then we better strap ourselves in for a rocky road at the KSM trial. As I have stated before, I'm still waiting for the House of Representatives to see a bill offered up that will exclude KSM from this trial freebie given to him by AG Eric "I'mDirty" Holder.

By the way, you might notice below that when the New York Times reports on an islamic terror case they set their own records for brevity of copy. If this was a story about how this jihadi was treated in Gitmo, it would run five pages.

NY Judge to Hear From Guantanamo Suspect's Lawyers

NEW YORK (AP) -- A New York City judge is set to hear arguments Monday before deciding if a terror suspect's rights were violated when he was held at Guantanamo Bay instead of being prosecuted promptly in a U.S. court.
Lawyers for Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani (guh-LAHN'-ee) say the government erred by letting him be questioned for three years in the Cuban detention camp before he was moved to New York, where he becomes the first Guantanamo prisoner prosecuted in a civilian U.S. court.
Ghailani is accused of deadly bombings at two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998.
Prosecutors say the delay in bringing him to trial was to get information from him and protect the United States.
Rulings in his case could affect the New York prosecution of Khalid Sheik Mohammed (HAH'-leed shayk moh-HAH'-med), who's accused of leading the Sept. 11 attacks.