Should KSM Be Tried In Federal Court?
How’s ‘HELL NO!!’ … Can you just see it now … All the dumb-ass TV talking heads with their ‘legal experts’ in a collective liberal ‘brain-trust’ devising onTV a way for the defense to loop-hole these goat fuckers off scott-free?
by Aamer Madhani - The Swamp
With the U.S. military commission at Guantanamo Bay preparing to formally arraign Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other suspects charged with planning and organizing the Sept. 11 attacks, two former federal prosecutors are making the case that it would be more appropriate to prosecute Mohammed and other terror suspects in U.S. federal courts.
Richard Zabel and James Benjamin, both former U.S. assistant attorneys in the southern district of New York, made the argument as they released a study today that took a look at civilian courts handling of the prosecution of 123 terrorism cases over the past 15 years.
Since the tribunals were created, the procedures of the military commissions have been challenged repeatedly in court. Yet, the administration has remained steadfast in its argument that ordinary courts are not equipped to handle the sensitive national security considerations involved in trying top terrorists.
But Zabel and Benjamin, who worked with Human Rights First on the study, argue that Mohammed and others could be tried in U.S. federal courts without jeopardizing U.S. national security.
In their study, “In the Pursuit of Justice: Prosecuting Terrorism Cases in the Federal Courts, ” the former prosecutors point out that civilian courts have capably prosecuted dozens of cases involving Islamic terrorists going back to the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.
Zabel and Benjamin acknowledge that the Mohammed case could face some obstacles if it were to be tried in a U.S. court, but the attorneys argue the complications could be overcome.
CIA Michael Hayden acknowledged in February that Mohammed and two other Al Qaeda suspects were waterboarded to compel information about future planned attacks.
The controversial interrogation technique makes a prisoner believe he is in imminent danger of drowning, and is illegal under the Geneva Conventions. Under U.S. civilian law, any statements made forcibly would not be admissible.
“The government would have to tailor the proof to exclude evidence that was attained in violation of due process laws,” Bejamin said. “But you know, prosecutors know how to do that…”
Zabel said too much emphasis has been put on the “burden and travails” of trying terror cases in civilian criminal courts.
“There are also a lot of benefits to a transparent system that airs out the evidence against the individuals and shows the world just and reliable results,” Zabel said.
Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, and four others are set to be arraigned on June 5 at Guantanamo.
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No to Federal Court trial!
This prick should have been drawn and quartered after we got everything out of him and dumped his carcass on the side of the road with is head resting on his chest. Sorry but when it comes to dirt bags like Khalid Sheik Mohammed they deserve no mercy nor any niceties of juris prudence.
May 29th, 2008 at 6:17 amFederal court for the man who planned 9/11? yeah fu*king right! we should save taxpayers their money and pretend he got out of hand and just cap his ass in the jail cell.
May 29th, 2008 at 6:23 amHow ’bout a little “swamp justice”? Tie his dumbass up to a tree in a swamp in the deep south…let the critters take care of him. Please be sure to videotape it so we can send it to al Jazeera…maybe they’ll pass it along to these other islamic idiots!
May 29th, 2008 at 6:26 amHe should have been executed by now,after WWII some war criminals were tried and executed within six months.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:17 amI think he should be given the same considerations he, and his fellow goat fuckers, gave to those they murdered.
In short, we don’t need no stinking trial.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:22 amIs that a pearl necklace on Khalid Shaikh Mohammed? Who did it? Oh you bad, bad gimp.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:39 amFederal court? Is he an American citizen?
Do not try and write down their acts of war to a domestic charge just so you can read your name in a paper and talk to anderson cooper.
Tribunal.
May 29th, 2008 at 8:14 amNo. The federal courts should be too busy with the likes of Reid, Pelosi, Murtha and oh yeah KeithO. A rope is the only trial the goat fucker needs.
May 29th, 2008 at 9:16 amThose two former US attorneys have no business interjecting themselves into this. They are liberal operatives laying the foundation for when Obama becomes President and disbands Gitmo, and moves what prisoners remain to federal prison and federal court, extending the rights of US citizens to stateless enemy combatants, abrogating the law of war and of US S. Ct. precedent in the matter. Too bad when Clinton was President and treated terrorism as a criminal court matter, conservatives didn’t push as hard and interject themselves to call the terrorism acts of war and demand consistent act of war treatment.
May 29th, 2008 at 10:14 amHow ’bout a little “swamp justice”? Tie his dumbass up to a tree in a swamp in the deep south…let the critters take care of him.
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Not as bad idea there …
However, I just finished watching A&E’s two night remake of “The Andromeda Strain” and fear KSM’s infected body tissues might spread his disease to all those ‘feasting’ critters in the swamp … and we could have some serious anti-human animal mutations on our hands.
May 29th, 2008 at 11:09 am