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2022-03-16 Home Front: WoT
Pentagon prosecutors working on deal to SAVE 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his accomplices from death penalty before his Guantanamo Bay trial
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Guilty pleas in exchange for a life sentence could finally bring to a close the over two decade-long case, the longest ever at the war court

  • The cases have been bogged down in pretrial proceedings due to the CIA's use of terrorism, but plea agreements could ignite fury from 9/11 families

  • The al-Qaeda terrorists have been charged with terrorism; hijacking aircraft; conspiracy; murder in violation of the law of war; attacking civilians and more

  • The five men were allegedly directly involved with hijacking four airplanes and carrying out the coordinated attacks across the US that led to the death of 2,977

  • They are: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed,
    ...also Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, Mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. He was captured in Faisalabad, Pakistain in 2002 and interned at Guantanamo...
     Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin Attash,
    ... Walid bin Attash and Waleed bin Attash, a Yemeni who ran an al-Qaeda training camp in Logar, Afghanistan, where two of the 19 hijackers were trained. Bin Attash is believed to have been bin Laden's bodyguard. Authorities say bin Laden selected him as a hijacker, but he was prevented from participating when he was briefly detained in Yemen in early 2001...
    Ramzi Bin al-Shibh ,
    ...a.k.a. Ramzi ibn Al-Shaiba, senior Al Qaeda man involved in the famous Hamburg cell. The unhandsome Yemeni helped find flight schools for the hijackers, helped them enter the United States, and assisted with financing the operation. He was supposed to be a hijacker, but was unable to get a U.S. visa. He also took the lead in a foiled plot to crash aircraft into London's Heathrow Airport...
    Ali Abdul Aziz Ali,
    ...KSM’s nephew and one of KSM’s many relatives in the Karachi cell, also known as Ammar al-Balochi, helped nine of the hijackers travel to the United States and sent them money for expenses and flight training. He was also part of the Heathrow team ...
    and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi ,
    ... also Mustafa al-Hawsawi, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, Mustapha Ahmed al-Hawsawi, and no doubt other variations. Saudi Arabian accused of giving financial backing to the group, he testified in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, saying he had seen Moussaoui at an al-Qaeda guesthouse in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in early 2001, but somehow was never introduced to him or conducted operations with him...
    all expected to face the death penalty if convicted
Update from PJ Media at 10:10 a.m. ET
During the Trump administration, prosecutors tried to work out a plea deal that would have sent the plotters to a supermax prison in Florence, Colo. with life sentences. Those negotiations fell through when the prisoners demanded they serve their life sentences in Guantanamo, which is far less restrictive.

Now the Biden administration, the guys that caused the debacle in Afghanistan
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
 is trying once again to settle the legal situation for KSM and the other plotters and has opened negotiations that would give the snuffies life sentences.

Even with successful negotiations, any deal would have to secure the Pentagon’s approval.
Lapdogs Milley and Austin would surely do whatever they're told
Even the suggestion of a deal during the Trump administration enraged then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who complained to Defense Secretary James N. Mattis about the convening authority, Harvey Rishikof. Shortly after that, Rishikof was fired.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-03-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top
 File under: al-Qaeda 

#1 I'm surprised they haven't just let them go.
Posted by Chris 2022-03-16 09:07||   2022-03-16 09:07|| Front Page Top

#2 The dem bench is very shallow. They are probably being courted to run for elective office in blue areas of the US.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-16 09:08||   2022-03-16 09:08|| Front Page Top

#3 They should most definitely let Ron Jeremy go. Lots o Dems retiring, need some new Hedgehog blood
Posted by Jolutle Floluger5296 2022-03-16 09:10||   2022-03-16 09:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Where's Epstein's cellmate?
Posted by Skidmark 2022-03-16 10:08||   2022-03-16 10:08|| Front Page Top

#5 
Posted by Clem Slinert6585 2022-03-16 11:09||   2022-03-16 11:09|| Front Page Top

#6 They only killed privileged white Americans mostly. So why not let them out on bail?

Posted by Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-16 11:31||   2022-03-16 11:31|| Front Page Top

#7 If they weren't all cowards, they would have requested martyrdom by sword long ago.
Posted by KBK 2022-03-16 18:18||   2022-03-16 18:18|| Front Page Top

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