U.S. Preparing for Trials of Top Qaeda Detainees

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The Bush administration has set up a secret war room in a Virginia suburb where it is assembling evidence to prosecute high-ranking detainees from Al Qaeda including the man accused of being the mastermind of the September 2001 attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, government officials said this week.

The effort to sift the classified files of the Pentagon, F.B.I., C.I.A. and other intelligence agencies amounts to the first concrete steps that the government has taken to press ahead with war crimes trials of high-level terror suspects under a plan announced by President Bush in a speech last September.

At the time, Mr. Bush said that Mr. Mohammed and 13 other high-level terror suspects had been transferred from secret prisons around the world to the military detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where they would be held pending trial.

The preparation of cases against the high-value operatives appears to rebut many who doubted that Qaeda suspects like Mr. Mohammed would ever be brought to trial. Critics in Congress and human rights groups had asserted that such trials would not be feasible because they would expose harsh interrogation techniques used by the Central Intelligence Agency.



http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/12/washington/12terror.html?hp&ex=1168578000&en=2d21b6ab313d929d&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[oblivious]

1. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the 911 mastermind on trial in the US?

I won't hold my breath waiting to see that on national TV.

[EFerrari]

2. Right -- they're going to expose their torturing and their lack of any

"high value targets". Losers.

Maybe they can trot out that kid from Marin county again that they tortured and railroaded. That kid that studied with the Taliban while they were our allies?

BushCo is so, so screwn.