Blade_Runner wrote:
Isn't it interesting that here it is 16 years later and the 9/11 conspiracy movement still thinks someone other than Al Qaeda terrorists attacked us and still can't prove who they think did it, how they did it, or why.
Isn't it interesting that KSM was in fact brought to trial. First by a military tribunal, then Obama and Holder attempted to have him tried in civil court, but that flopped because KSM is not an American citizen, he is not protected by the US constitution. So, KSM and his four co-conspirators in the 9/11 plot were returned to be tried by military tribunal.
Possible guilty plea
On December 8, 2008, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-defendants told the judge that they wished to confess and plead guilty to all charges. The plea will be delayed until mental competency hearings for Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi and Ramzi bin al-Shibh can be held; Mohammed said, "We want everyone to plead together." Spencer Ackerman, writing in the Washington Independent, reported that Presiding Officer Stephen Henley had to consider whether he was authorized to accept guilty pleas.
On June 25, 2009, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, writing in English, made what could be read as a surprising plea for absolution: “All praise is due to Allah. I praise Him and seek His aid and His forgiveness and I seek refuge in Allah from our evil in ourselves and from our bad deeds.”
Even if this were only a ritual expression of obeisance, it would stand in contrast to his customarily belligerent behavior. In the few statements of his that have been made public—a 2002 interview with the Al Jazeera reporter Yosri Fouda, pieces of the United States government’s interrogations of him, Red Cross prison interviews, and his appearances before military tribunals—Mohammed has been cold-bloodedly straightforward. He told Fouda that the Holy Tuesday planes operation, as Al Qaeda called the 9/11 assaults, was “designed to cause as many deaths as possible and havoc and to be a big slap for America on American soil.”
Testifying before a military tribunal in 2007, he likened himself to George Washington and boasted that he planned “the 9/11 operation from A-to-Z.” Killing, he said, was simply part of his job: “War start from Adam when Cain he killed Abel until now. It’s never gonna stop killing of people.” In that appearance, he boasted of murdering the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl: “I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan. For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head.”
Isn't it interesting that here it is 16 years late... (
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Of course we have to take the word of those who are running the torture prison at Guantanamo that KSM actually did say he wanted to plead guilty.
You do remember KSM was waterboarded 283 times before they could torture a confession out of him.
If he confessed in 2008, why is he still awaiting trial? Is it because confessions coerced by torture are not admissible in court?