washingtonpost.com - 12/8/2008
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Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, December 8, 2008; 2:31 PM GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba. Dec. 8 -- Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed operational mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and four co-defendants told a U.S. military court in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Monday that they ...
news.yahoo.com - 12/8/2008
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba Five men charged
with plotting the Sept. 11 attacks told a military...
judge Monday that they want to immediately confess at their war-crimes tribunal at Guantanamo Bay , setting up likely guilty pleas and their possible ...
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9/11 suspects ask to make 'confessions' at Gitmo - ...
google.com - 12/8/2008
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2 hours ago WASHINGTON (AFP) Alleged September 11,
2001 attacks mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-defendants...
have indicated they will confess to terror charges in their trial before a US military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the ...
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AFP: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to plead guilty: judge
bloomberg.com - 12/8/2008
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Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Self-described Sept. 11 mastermind
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-defendants today offered in...
a Guantanamo Bay courtroom to plead guilty to charges that could lead to the death penalty. The five reached agreement to ...
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Sept. 11 Suspects Offer to Plead Guilty ‘in Full’ (Update4)
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KSM, other 9/11 plotters tell Gitmo court they’re ready to confess
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... in his video will. These turds are already “martyrs”; the only question is whether you want to flush them or not. Actually, that’s not the only question : If the judge accepts guilty pleas, the ability of the Obama administration to transfer this case to federal court would be nearly impossible because the legal principle of jeopardy would attach, according to Anthony 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 ...
ACLU: It Would Be Absurd to Accept Guilty Plea From 911 Mastermind
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... note that among al Qaeda’s many “reasons” given by Osama bin Laden for the 9/11 attack was that we were holding Omar Abdul Rahman (”The Blind Sheikh”) in the federal pokey. The moral of the story is that whether we kill them or simply hold them prisoner those with the jihadi mindset will still hate us and find reason to blame us for an act of “injustice”. So, why not give them their wish and kill them? Call it an act of national catharsis. Palette cleansing if you will. But, wait! The ACLU cry injustice! If the judge accepts guilty pleas, the ability of the Obama ...
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