9/11 mastermind/Guantanamo detainee trials to begin

Gravy

Downsitting Citizen
Gravy
Joined
Mar 27, 2006
Messages
17,078
The New York Times:
Military prosecutors are in the final phases of preparing the first sweeping case against suspected conspirators in the plot that led to the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11, 2001, and drew the United States into war, people who have been briefed on the case said.

The charges, to be filed in the military commission system at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, would involve as many as six detainees held at the detention camp, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the former senior aide to Osama bin Laden, who has said he was the principal planner of the plot.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/09/us/09gitmo.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Click to expand...
It's an interesting article that summarizes the contentious issues that will be raised in these trials.
 
Last edited:
Gravy said:
The New York Times:
It's an interesting article that summarizes the contentious issues that will be raised in these trials.
Click to expand...

Are they going to ask them about why the hijackers are still alive, or just how much Mossad/CIA money they took to carry out George Bush's evil plan?
 
Why do I get the feeling that lots of real evidence will be presented? Why won't they present evidence of therm*te, space beams, controlled demolition, "pull it", faster than freefall, "fell in it's own footprint", dancing joooos, computer imagery....and, of course...clunkity clunk?
Just asking questions.....:rolleyes:
 
Gravy said:
The New York Times:
It's an interesting article that summarizes the contentious issues that will be raised in these trials.
Click to expand...

Six whole detainees huh? That's some vast conspiracy involving years of planning and thousands of people in on it. I hope our military took notes while they were torturing them. It seems they could use some lessons on how to be so efficient when planning such a vast and complex mission.

Will the Military prosecutors have to present their interrogation techniques? Will the trials be touching on any other crimes Khalid Shaikh Mohammed confessed to besides 9/11? You know like the Lincoln assassination?
 
LastChild said:
Six whole detainees huh? That's some vast conspiracy involving years of planning and thousands of people in on it. I hope our military took notes while they were torturing them. It seems they could use some lessons on how to be so efficient when planning such a vast and complex mission.

Will the Military prosecutors have to present their interrogation techniques? Will the trials be touching on any other crimes Khalid Shaikh Mohammed confessed to besides 9/11? You know like the Lincoln assassination?
Click to expand...

Wow, already drawing conclusions before any evidence is presented? Sounds so...in-character of a 9/11 denier.
 
What's the term for Kangaroo Court when it takes a really long time?
 
The New York Times said:
The other detainee whose treatment could become a focus of any trial is Mohammed al-Qahtani, who has been held at Guantánamo since 2002. Pentagon officials have said he may have been the so-called “20th hijacker.” A month before the attacks, he flew from Dubai to Orlando, Fla., but was denied entry into the United States by an immigration official.

Pentagon investigators concluded in 2005 that he had been subject to abusive treatment at Guantánamo, including sleep deprivation, being forced to wear a bra and being led around on a leash.
Click to expand...

As a woman I can tell you, that is torture!
 
LastChild said:
Six whole detainees huh? That's some vast conspiracy involving years of planning and thousands of people in on it.
Click to expand...


The number of detainees currently due to stand trial has no necessary bearing on the intricacy of the crime in question.
 
LastChild said:
Will the Military prosecutors have to present their interrogation techniques? Will the trials be touching on any other crimes Khalid Shaikh Mohammed confessed to besides 9/11? You know like the Lincoln assassination?
Click to expand...

where'd that happen at?
 
Where did KSM confess to the Lincoln assassination?

Just for reference before we have the inevitable 'People under torture will say anything', KSM did not give up the location of two spies in California and South Africa, even though both Dhiren Barot and Hambali say that KSM provided him with their information.
 
Last edited:
Undesired Walrus said:
Where did KSM confess to the Lincoln assassination?

Just for reference before we have the inevitable 'People under torture will say anything', KSM did not give up the location of two spies in California and South Africa, even though both Dhiren Barot and Hambali say that KSM provided him with their information.
Click to expand...

So is anything he claims in his "confessions" reliable?
 
KSM Enemy Combatant Tribunal Summary of Evidence (PDF)


Masterminds of Terror: The Truth Behind the Most Devastating Terrorist Attack the World Has Ever Seen by Yosri Fouda
When star Al-Jazeera TV reporter Yosri Fouda received an anonymous call summoning him to a secret interview in Pakistan with al-Qaeda, he knew he could be walking into a deadly trap, as Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl had done only months before. But he took the risk and hit pay dirt. For 48 hours, Fouda listened as two of the world's most wanted men, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, head of al-Qaeda's military committee, and Ramzi Binalshibh, the link between Mohammed Atta and the senior al-Qaeda leadership, proudly claimed responsibility for the 9/11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon – the first time al-Qaeda took direct responsibility. During the course of the in-depth interview, they detailed exactly how, over a two-year period, the plot was conceived, planned, and executed. Based on that interview and hours of follow-up investigation, MASTERMINDS OF TERROR also contains dramatic accounts of the subsequent seizure of both Binalshibh and Mohammed and analyzes al-Qaeda's attempts to justify its actions on what it calls 'Holy Tuesday.'​
 
Last edited:
Par said:
While his unsupported claims were indeed shocking, it was his attempt to shift the burden of proof that really had me off my chair.
Click to expand...

you literally came off the chair? Jeez... you might wanna switch to decaf. :D
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top Bottom