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9/11 Patsies Withdraw Offer To Confess
Peter Finn
Washington Post
Wednesday, Dec 10, 2008
Five of the men accused of planning the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks said Monday that they wanted to plead guilty to murder and war crimes but withdrew the offer when a military judge raised questions about whether it would prevent them from fulfilling their desire to receive the death penalty.
“Are you saying if we plead guilty we will not be able to be sentenced to death?” Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed operational mastermind of the attacks, asked at a pretrial hearing here.
The seesaw proceedings Monday raised and then postponed the prospect of a conviction in a case that has become the centerpiece of the system of military justice created by the Bush administration. A conviction would have capped a seven-year quest for justice after the 2001 attacks, but the delay in entering pleas will probably extend the process beyond the end of the Bush presidency.
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The willingness of the defendants to “announce our confessions and plea in full,” according to a document they sent to the judge in the case, Army Col. Stephen Henley, potentially bestows some hard decisions on the incoming administration. President-elect Barack Obama has vowed to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, but he has not indicated whether he will retain the military commissions that may be close to securing the death penalty for suspects in the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history.
If the judge ultimately accepts guilty pleas, the ability of the Obama administration to transfer the case to federal court — a desire expressed by some Obama advisers — might be constrained, said Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. That could mean the new administration may have to oversee an execution resulting from a process that many Obama supporters and legal advisers regard as deeply flawed.
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December 10th, 2008 at 5:06 am
What an update. What a government.
December 10th, 2008 at 5:46 am
On one hand we have the globalist constructed and inspired radical Muslim faction and on the other we have the globalist constructed military industrial complex that has infiltrated and corrupted the criminal (in)justice system of the republic. In summary, just another bad piece of theater. ITS ALL A LIE. The LIES HAVE LIES! Moreover, these patsies have had their entire perception of existence and reality altered by the brainwashing, torture, and deprivations they’ve been subject to. None of this feeble charade has anything to do with the truth. The Washinton Post should be ashamed to print it.
December 10th, 2008 at 7:47 am
Bust out the waterboard they will confess yet!
December 10th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Dog and Pony show!! Dog and Pony show!! Dog and Pony show!! Dog and Pony show!! Dog and Pony show!! Dog and Pony show!! Dog and Pony show!! Dog and Pony show!! Dog and Pony show!! Dog and Pony show!! Dog and Pony show!! Dog and Pony show!! Dog and Pony show!! Dog and Pony show!!
December 10th, 2008 at 11:03 am
I quit. It’s torture reading this flip flop shit. I CONFESS!!!!! I was also involved in 911!!!!! Which way is Mecca?
If we all confess, maybe that will give the corporate media enough for a real jack-off fest?
December 10th, 2008 at 11:18 am
#2 is right.
Also, I’m sure that the NWO scumbags would love to see a few guys publicly smoked for 911, so that the american people can feel a false sense of justice/revenge… and thus allow the controllers to put 911 away into the pages of history as a done deal.
December 10th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Thats right. Thoose guys want to die. God help them, wouldnt you?
If you were tortured for years?
I would break much faster.
December 10th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
When we first set out to deceive.
Oh what a tangled web we weave.
December 10th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
September 11 families denounce Guantanamo trials
Wed 10 Dec 2008, 20:03 GMT
By Jane Sutton
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) – Two dozen people who lost loved ones in the September 11 attacks issued a statement on Wednesday denouncing the Guantanamo war crimes trials as illegitimate, shameful and politically motivated.
“These prosecutions have been politically motivated from the start, are designed to ensure quick convictions at the expense of due process and transparency, and are structured to prevent the revelation of abusive interrogations and torture engaged in by the U.S. government,” said the 24 relatives who signed Wednesday’s statement, which was distributed through the American Civil Liberties Union.
Tom Durkin, one of defendant Ramzi Binalshibh’s civilian lawyers, accused the Pentagon of trying to use those families’ grief to blackmail President-elect Barack Obama into continuing the Guantanamo tribunals.
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