Pentagon FAXED confirmation 5 will face Sept. 11 charges, possible death penalties

[babylonsister]

Pentagon faxed confirmation 5 will face Sept. 11 charges
By Carol Rosenberg | Miami Herald


The Pentagon has formally approved death penalty charges against reputed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other men in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, setting the stage for proceedings to begin before a military commission in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, sometime in June.

The Pentagon made no announcement that a civilian appointee known as the convening authority, Susan Crawford, had signed off on the charges. But defense attorneys for the men in Washington, D.C., said they received copies of the 93-page charge sheet by fax after the close of business Monday.

Navy Capt. Prescott Prince, who's been appointed to defend Mohammaed, called the after-hours faxed delivery of the charges "arrogant."

A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon, declined to release the charges publicly, or discuss them. ''When we have something to announce, we will,'' he said in an e-mail Monday evening.

The Pentagon had originally sought charges against six defendants, but Crawford deleted from the charge sheet a Saudi captive at Guantánamo, Mohammed al Qahtani, who is often referred to as the 20th hijacker.

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[madokie]

1. I'm conflicted here on this

on the one hand I would like to see the perpertrators of 911 held accountable but on the other hand I doubt seriously is these are the ones I'm thinking deserve this. Personally I lean toward mihop, at the very least lihop

[GregD]

2. lihop at an absolute minimum.

I don't feel any convictions, much less execution, are justified until a REAL inquiry has been conducted.

[endarkenment]

5. There can be no justice served here.

These people have been tortured, held without charges for years, denied access to consul, denied any semblance of due process or basic rights of accused. The systematic torture they have been subjected to is designed essentially to drive them insane. To put it mildly, any attempt to put these people on trial for anything is an affront to their human rights and a crime against humanity, to put them on trial for their lives is beyond the pale.

[madokie]

7. Exactly right

These five have already been convicted, just not by a jury of their peers but by bushco, and have served out their time. We owe them is how I personally feel about all this. The real criminals in all this is bushco, not the prisoners there.

[bluesmail]

3. Have to shut them up ala Hussein, ~forever~

and do it before the supposed elections, just in case.

[Peace Patriot]

4. "The Pentagon has formally approved death penalty charges against..."

"The Pentagon" as prosecutor, judge, jury and hangman, for people who are permanently in their custody as the result of actions that we know nothing about.

"The Pentagon" determined to hang people whom they have tortured, who have no rights and who are imprisoned in isolation in a "No Man's Land" of the Pentagon's own making.

An American nightmare.

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Throw Diebold, ES&S and all election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' now!

[babylonsister]

6. Yes, a neverending nightmare perpetrated by our country. How proud

that makes me. :puke: