Fury at plan to try September 11 mastermind near Ground Zero

Marinka Peschmann at November - 13 - 2009 Under Islam, President Obama, U.S.

America has officially returned to the mind-set of 9/10/2001. Just like the Clinton Administration, the Obama administration is treating terrorism as a law enforcement matter. The consequences of Obama’s AG Eric Holder’s decision to bring Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed mastermind behind the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack to Manhattan for a civilian trial will be incalculable. For starters, New York is already a bull-eye for terrorists– that threat just grew exponentially. Imagine the security measures that will be afforded to KSM compliments of the NYPD, diverting valuable resources from protecting New Yorkers. Terrorists will be emboldened to attack civilians anywhere, evidentiary disclosures during the trial may compromise America’s national security. Read Tim Reid’s report at the London Times for much more.

The self-confessed mastermind of the September 11 terror attacks and four alleged co-conspirators are to be moved from Guantánamo Bay and tried in a civilian court in New York. The move was denounced angrily yesterday by victims’ relatives and Republicans on Capitol Hill.

The extraordinary announcement of the trial was made by Eric Holder, the Attorney-General, who said that he would seek the death penalty for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others when they face prosecution in a court in lower Manhattan.

The court sits a few blocks from where the twin towers collapsed after the 2001 attack and where nearly 3,000 people died. The trial will prove to be an enormous legal, political and popular test of President Obama’s methods of dealing with terrorism.

The cases will be beset by evidence problems, not least because Mohammed was tortured by the CIA soon after his capture in Pakistan. He was subjected to simulated drowning (waterboarding) 183 times in March 2003, making any evidence obtained from him then, and since, almost definitely inadmissible.

Entire report.

More: Andrew McCarthy’s Holder’s Hidden Agenda

Let’s take stock of where we are at this point. KSM and his confederates wanted to plead guilty and have their martyrs’ execution last December, when they were being handled by military commission. As I said at the time, we could and should have accommodated them. The Obama administration could still accommodate them. After all, the president has not pulled the plug on all military commissions: Holder is going to announce at least one commission trial (for Nashiri, the Cole bomber) today.

Moreover, KSM has no defense. He was under American indictment for terrorism for years before there ever was a 9/11, and he can’t help himself but brag about the atrocities he and his fellow barbarians have carried out.

So: We are now going to have a trial that never had to happen for defendants who have no defense. And when defendants have no defense for their own actions, there is only one thing for their lawyers to do: put the government on trial in hopes of getting the jury (and the media) spun up over government errors, abuses and incompetence. That is what is going to happen in the trial of KSM et al. It will be a soapbox for al-Qaeda’s case against America. Since that will be their “defense,” the defendants will demand every bit of information they can get about interrogations, renditions, secret prisons, undercover operations targeting Muslims and mosques, etc., and — depending on what judge catches the case — they are likely to be given a lot of it.

Even more. Rudy Giuliani Weighs In

This is the same mistake we made with the 1993 terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center. We treated them like domestic criminals, when in fact they were terrorists. In the dangerous world we live in today, a nation unable to identify and properly define its enemies is a nation in danger.

Watch this video at Breitbarttv.com where then Senator Obama said, KSM will get a full military trial. Another Naked Emperor Productions find.

Update: The New York Times praises Eric Holder’s decision in this editorial, A Return to American Justice, but believes it does not go far enough.
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Regrettably, the decision fell short of a clean break. Five other Guantánamo detainees are to be tried before a military commission for the 2000 bombing of the Navy destroyer Cole, including Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who is accused of planning the attack.

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