Breaking: 9-11 Mastermind Says “I Want The Death Sentence”
Fox & AP:
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — The accused mastermind of the worst terror attack in U.S. history told a Guantanamo Bay court Thursday that he wants to be put to death.
After almost seven years, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators are facing a military judge in his first public appearance before a war-crimes tribunal.
Their arraignment Thursday is the highest-profile test yet of the controversial tribunal system, which is being challenged in court. It comes seven years after the attacks. All five face the death penalty if convicted.
U.S. Military officials told Reuters that the suspects walked into the courtroom willingly.
All five wore cream-colored clothing and turbans, in contrast to the disheveled hair and T-shirt Mohammed wore when he was captured in Pakistan in 2003. Mohammed was later held in CIA custody at secret sites and transferred to the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2006.
Journalists were allowed to see the proceedings on closed-circuit TV in a nearby press room. Other observers including Fang A. Wong, a senior member of the American Legion, filed into the tightly guarded courthouse to watch the arraignment.
“I’m from the New York area, and I have been waiting for this for a long time,” Wong said as he waited to be searched by soldiers before entering the court complex.
The arraignment of the five detainees begins the highest-profile test yet of the controversial tribunal system, which is being challenged before the U.S. Supreme Court. All five face the death penalty if convicted of war crimes including murder, conspiracy, attacking civilians and terrorism.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey also said Wednesday that the tribunals will be “in the best traditions of the American legal system” even though the military judges can consider hearsay evidence and confessions obtained through coercion, which aren’t admissible in civilian courts. “Different situations call for different solutions,” he said.
The four defendants due to appear with Mohammed are: Ramzi Binalshibh, said to have been the main intermediary between the hijackers and Al Qaeda leaders; Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, known as Ammar al-Baluchi, a nephew and lieutenant of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed; al-Baluchi’s assistant, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi; and Waleed bin Attash, a detainee known as Khallad, who allegedly selected and trained some of the 19 hijackers.
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Life in a 6×8 box 23/7 piggie.
The only way you get the death sentence is if we slice you all over with a straight razor coated in pork blood, then throw you, alive, into a pig pen full of very hungry pigs, video tape it, and broadcast it around the world.
Otherwise, you fukn rot.
I rarely make comments, but this one…needed to get off my chest.
June 5th, 2008 at 6:39 amI say we keep this asshole alive in solitary and let him see daylight about once a year just to tease him tell he dies.
June 5th, 2008 at 6:39 amDon’t give this jackass the satisfaction. Hell, I think life in jail is the harsher of the two sentences anyway. You still die, you just have to live in a cage full of animals for several decades first, slowly becoming weaker and losing your capacity to defend yourself.
June 5th, 2008 at 6:42 amLife in solitary confinement. That would be pure hell for this ass.
June 5th, 2008 at 6:44 amI agree. lets let this piece of crap sit in prison for about another 20 years in solitary. let him think all day long about the things he has done
June 5th, 2008 at 6:45 ami’ve been wondering something…how is it that we have a military base in cuba? what’s the history of that? completely unrelated but i figured it would be interesting to find out how that happened.
June 5th, 2008 at 6:54 amWe made the base after we got Cuba during the American-Spanish War. Still had it when Castro took power. Still have it now.
June 5th, 2008 at 6:57 amMake a space for him at Super Max where he can rot.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:03 amEither life in prison or a very unislamic death. Something that guarantees he will think he’s going straight to hell — even though he is anyway, let’s just play with him up to the last second….
June 5th, 2008 at 7:05 amI’ll bet if you give me a few requested tools and 15 minutes in a cell with this asshole, I can make him change his mind about martyrdom…
I don’t think he’d he would approve of my form of execution.
In fact, I’m can almost guarantee that asshole will sound like The Most Reverend Vanilla Ice when I am finished.
And I guess that waterboarding and Gitmo are a little more effective than we’ve been led to believe by the Dhimmicratic party?
June 5th, 2008 at 7:16 amWhat you want pig boy, is like Islam——totally irrelevant.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:19 amI say keep him fat and healthy on a strict diet of pork-n-beans. Then once a year, say on September 11; wax all the hair off his disgusting fat body; soak him in pigs blood; and parade him through streets of NYC… in a “bring out the gimp suit”… behind a fire truck, with lights and siren. Then put him back in gimp box till next year.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:20 amCan you believe the Dhimmicratic politickians cried alligator tears for this maggot when it was determined water boarding was used to break him?
This demon from hell helps kill 3,000 of our citizens and the Dhimmicratic party leaders use a tool to break something subhuman to browbeat Bush & Cheney, thinking they could score a few points?
What more does any sane human being need to know about the Dimocratic leaders than this one simple fact? Politics trump American lives…in the religion of Dimocrats.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:28 amLife in SuperMax is where this guy belongs.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:31 amWhy not just put Mullah Mohammed in a solitary exposed cell naked in the sun, no food or water, nothing but the wind to listen to? Let’s see if Allah answers the martyr’s prayers.
And when this maggot finally dies, let his fat ass rot in the sun and let the worms eat his decaying corpse. Don’t even bury him. Let the crabs carry him away.
If there’s ever been an SOB that deserved to die a slow, agonizing death…
June 5th, 2008 at 7:47 amGive him life in prison with a strict diet of pork rinds
June 5th, 2008 at 8:14 amI have seen this puke’s twin-sister named Rosie many times before.
June 5th, 2008 at 8:43 amI understand now.
I would love for this terrorist to die slowly, thinking about whath he did every day in a small rotting hole and fed with pork guts daily.
And a little H2O boarding for sport.
I say life in solitary with the only available reading material being a Christian bible… That ought to drive him nuts.
June 5th, 2008 at 8:47 amSlow death…is what he deserves. Something on the order of what the Hizzies did to Bill Buckley in the 1980’s. They extended his torture over three years. Took him to Iran and Syria…for “special” interrogation sessions…took pics and mailed them to Ollie North.
How about doing the same thing to him. Take pics of the whole thing and mail them to Ahmedthewhackjob, AQ, Assad and Nasrallah?
Post the pics on every jihadi web site around the world, with references to the page number and pic# from the AQ interrogation manual that will be done in the next installment.
June 5th, 2008 at 12:56 pm