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2012-05-02 Home Front: WoT

A year after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the United States has another opportunity on the horizon to take down a major terrorist figure, albeit in a much different way. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the confessed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, will finally begin a military commission for the murders of 3,000 Americans at Guantanamo Bay on Saturday morning, when he'll appear at a Guantanamo Bay courtroom for his belated arraignment. But even as the U.S. boasts about the justice its reformed military trials will dispense, those trials might ironically give the man known as KSM the conclusion he sees as a final victory: death.

It's been a long time since KSM was last in court. In 2008, during an arraignment for a commission that ultimately got cancelled, he quickly pled guilty to multiple murder counts. "This is what I want," he told the court, in English. "I'm looking to be martyr for long time."

That case was interrupted for a variety of procedural reasons, and KSM never got his chance. In the intervening years, Congress and the Obama administration reformed the controversial military trials -- making it easier to seek capital punishment, by providing detainees with so-called "learned counsel" lawyers specifically skilled at death-penalty cases, which makes such sentences less likely to be reversed on appeal. Last month, after flipping a key detainee to testify against KSM, the government brought charges against KSM and four alleged accomplices for the 9/11 plot. "If convicted," the Defense Department clarified, "the five accused could be sentenced to death."

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Posted by tipper 2012-05-02 12:27|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Save everyone a lot of money and trouble - give him a handful of pills and let him check out.

Posted by Glenmore 2012-05-02 16:34|| 2012-05-02 16:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Put him in General population in a prison with alot of Aryan Brotherhood.

Posted by Gruth McGurque5303 2012-05-02 16:44|| 2012-05-02 16:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Yep. I think you have to die like a man to get your 72 raisins.

Posted by RandomJD 2012-05-02 17:53|| 2012-05-02 17:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Does 'dying like a man' include blowing yourself up in womens' clothes? Seems like they think so.

Posted by Glenmore 2012-05-02 18:43|| 2012-05-02 18:43|| Front Page Top

#5 #2

Problem is, the Aryan Bruderbund h8tz Juice too. The AB would probably adopt him.

Posted by Gabby Cussworth 2012-05-02 19:20|| 2012-05-02 19:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Would be a pity if the Gitmo dentist found out that KSM had impacted wisdom teeth, then he had to have a knee replacement and it wasn't done that well and then an abdominal resection...

Posted by Lord Garth 2012-05-02 20:32|| 2012-05-02 20:32|| Front Page Top

#7 "I'm looking to be a Martyr for a long time" > KSM's "fatalism" has never been successfully changed or altered since the first time I met him.

A similar argument can likely also be made as per OSAMA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-05-02 23:38|| 2012-05-02 23:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Osama did for Radical Islam + Whitney, I did for the Cold War + Madonna.

[KGB-RFSB ANNA "I'M NOT POSH SPICE" LONGINOVA here].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-05-02 23:41|| 2012-05-02 23:41|| Front Page Top

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