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March 10, 2009
Detainees Say They Planned Sept. 11
Detainees Say They Planned Sept. 11
The five detainees at Guantánamo Bay charged with planning the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have filed a document with the military commission at the United States naval base there expressing pride at their accomplishment and accepting full responsibility for the killing of nearly 3,000 people.
The document, which may be released publicly on Tuesday, uses the Arabic term for a consultative assembly in describing the five men as the “9/11 Shura Council,” and it says their actions were an offering to God, according to excerpts of the document that were read to a reporter by a government official who was not authorized to discuss it publicly.
The document is titled “The Islamic Response to the Government’s Nine Accusations,” the military judge at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp said in a separate filing.
The document was filed on behalf of the five men, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who has described himself as the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.
President Obama halted the military proceedings at Guantánamo in the first days after his inauguration, and the five men’s case is on hiatus until the government decides how it will proceed.
Several of the men have earlier said in military commission proceedings at Guantánamo that they planned the 2001 attacks and that they sought martyrdom. The strategic goal of the five men in making the new filing, which reached the military court on March 5, was not clear.
In their filing, the men describe the planning of the Sept. 11 attacks and the killing of Americans as a model of Islamic action, and say the American government’s accusations cause them no shame, according to the excerpts read by the government official.
“To us,” the official continued reading, “they are not accusations. To us they are a badge of honor, which we carry with honor.”
It appears that the men wrote the document at meetings they are permitted to conduct periodically at the detention camp without lawyers.
In his brief court order describing the filing, the military judge who has been handling the case, Col. Stephen R. Henley of the Army, said the men sought no specific legal action. Judge Henley ordered that the filing be released immediately, but officials said objections from lawyers for two of the men had held up release Monday.
All five of the men have said they want to represent themselves, but in the case of these two men, Ramzi bin al-Shibh and Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, the military judge had not yet determined their competency when the proceedings were halted.
Wild Thing's comment..........
So, why are these guys still among the living?
When they close GITMO, these terrorists will get all the same rights you were born with as a US citizen if their feet touch US soil. will not only free them, he will add a few of them to his cabinet.
Posted by Wild Thing at March 10, 2009 06:42 AM
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Hang them now. Simple.
Posted by: PeteSuj at March 10, 2009 09:37 AM
These are the same losers Barry wants to turn loose. The left concerned about the 'Rights' of these murderering dirtbags without regard to the rights of the 3000+ that died on 9-11.
As far as I can find out these prisoners have no rights under the Geneva Convention, they're not even considered enemy combatants. I think also if that's the case they should be shot as spies.
Now.
Posted by: Mark at March 10, 2009 11:59 AM
PeteSuj, I agree, no excuses too.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 10, 2009 11:47 PM
Mark,thank you, I heard once someplace I can't rememebr where that they should be under the Geneva Convention. Other places say no it does not apply. I agree with you Mark.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 10, 2009 11:50 PM
19 islamo jihadists butchered the flight crews of four U.S. airliners, and massacred 2,996 Americans (and 120 foreigners)in three states within three hours on 9-11-01, in the name of their Allah!
~AA11~ ~UF175~ ~AA77~ ~UF93~
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at March 11, 2009 06:35 PM
