A complete and utter lie. The courts put a stop to the Bush kangaroo courts when the litigants rightfully pointed out that under the Bush system of "fair" justice a defendant had about as many rights and about as much of a chance as a crippled jew in 1940's Auschwitz.
Washington - Legal proceedings against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-defendants in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are set to begin Thursday in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the attacks, had been held in a secret CIA prison after his capture in March 2003, before his transfer in September 2006 to the Guantanamo Bay military prison along with the four other men.
All five could face the death penalty if convicted under the military commissions ordered by US President George W Bush for trying suspects in the war on terrorism.
The defendants will be tried together on 169 counts that include conspiracy, murder in violation of the law of war, attacking civilians and civilian objects, and terrorism. Other charges include causing serious bodily injury, destruction of property and providing material support for terrorism.
The four other defendants are Ramzi bin al-Shibh, the alleged point of contact between the hijackers and al-Qaeda's leadership, Walid bin Attash, believed to have trained some of the hijackers, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, Mohammed's nephew and alleged deputy, and Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi.
The five men are being held at a secret location at the US Navy base at Guantanamo, separately from the facility holding lower-level detainees.
Nineteen hijackers commandeered four airliners to strike two towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon outside Washington. A fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania. The attacks killed 2,973 people.
The men are expected to plead guilty to all charges. So I guess we are both wrong since the trial started this past Thursday
Because the "war on terror" is nothing more than jingoistic bullshit for wannabe brownshirts who are too fucking stupid to comprehend that the are being used for their ignorance and bloodthirst by the Bush junta. There will NEVER be an end to terror in the world because the definition of terrorist varies depending on who you ask and when you ask them.
Do you have any proof of this?
I know the Bush junta would prefer that everyone believe that there is nothing wrong with imprisoning someone without charge and summarily executing them without due process when WE do it but when others like Saddam Hussein do it then its somehow grounds to start an illegal war over oil.
Nice how you blend then confuse the two acts so it looks real bad, this is called distortion and you do it poorly.
The people held at Gitmo are not Iraqis unless they had been proven to be in violation of the Geneva conventions as I stated in an earlier post. The soldiers in the Iraq war that were captured were released long ago.
The war in Iraq was started by Saddam and that war has been over for years. I can see how you can easily confuse the two since you are in lockstep with the fascist liberal lie machine. Also as pointed out in previous articles you have engaged in the war was continued when Saddam failed to abide by the cease fire agreement. Once he did that any country was free to resume the war. What I am trying to tell you is that war was not over it was only paused, just like the Korean war is paused until the North surrenders.
The next lie you told was that the war was for oil. A lie that has been refuted for years.
But too fucking bad, despite the best efforts of the traitors in the White House the constitution is still, for the most part, in force and there are still people capable of thinking for themselves.
A pity you are to one of them
