Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

[LuckyTheDog]

What good is served by trying him in secret by a kangaroo court? I say try him in OPEN court for all the world to see. Peel back the veil of "mystery" surrounding al Qaeda and reveal these guys as the thugs that they are. Don't allow them to be martyrs executed by our military.

If they are to be executed, let it be under the law, by civilian authorities, as part of a totally transparent process. Anything else serves the interests of the terrorists.

[annabanana]

1. I think his case is already terminally screwed..

I suspect that much or most of his confession was obtained by methods that the world cannot condone or recognize as legitimate.

It is a bell that cannot be unrung for this guy.

[LuckyTheDog]

2. All the more reason

All the more reason to "let it all hang out" in open court. The American people and the world deserve to know the whole truth -- about al Qaeda AND about the "war on terror."

[Warpy]

13. You're kidding, right?

No government as obsessed with secrecy as this one is, or as dedicated to erasing its bloody tracks, will ever allow any of this to come out in an open court.

I believe his confession almost as much as I believe clapping my hands will keep Tinkerbell alive.

[LuckyTheDog]

16. His trial

If he were to get a real trial, this the defense would put him on the stand:

"So, dude, you were in a secret prison for more than 3 years?"

"Yes."

"And that prison was run by the CIA?"

"Yes."

"And now, you believe that you are an international terrorist responsible for the 9/11 attacks as well as other attacks and planned attacks?"

"Yes."

"And, again, who ran that secret prision you were in?"

"The CIA."

"Your honor, the defense rests. We have established reasonable doubt."

[PurpleChez]

3. The moment I first read the story I thought

"A-ha! Gonzales is in trouble, and they need something to 'prove' that their out-of-control police state tactics work. So they trot out a 'confession' from Mr. Man." I don't trust anything that comes out of this administration.

[Bitwit1234]

4. Just think....they might get him to say he fired the attornies.

started the Iraq war and failed to respond to Katrina.

[Lint Head]

5. He invented the Internet.

:dem:

[npincus]

10. he's the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby

... he confessed! He really did!

[TahitiNut]

11. I'm betting he murdered Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman, too.

OJ should go and ask him. :shrug:

[siligut]

14. Hooey, claptrap and hookum

Three years in a secret CIA detention system and they could get me to confess to being an al Qaeda operative. Oh, look at me I’m bad ass al Qaeda. The only reason they haven’t trotted him out before now is because the CIA “doctors” were learning too much about Islamic mind control and programming to pass up the chance. Now that Bushco figures Amurika is catching on to the whole bait and switch, they have to put this sirhan sirhan, Manchurian candidate type guy into the public eye.

[majorjohn]

6. I'm beginning to think it's all an act n/t

[John Q. Citizen]

7. They can't try him in open court. He knows too much about the funding and the

US governments (as well as other governments) connections to the accused hijackers and their associates.

[Sir Jeffrey]

8. There is no way in hell KSM could be tried in open court...

"Your honor, my client was tortured by US officials while in detention and here is the proof..."

Defense counsel gives proof.

Prosecution can't shoot it down or keep it out of court.

"Case dismissed with prejudice"

The operational mastermind behind 9/11 walks.

Idiot Republicans blame the ACLU and other bleeding hearts for protecting the civil rights of terrorists.

[Junkdrawer]

9. Yeah, but we might find out that the Saudis and Big Oil have more of a role...

in the operation and direction of al Qaeda than those in power would like.

[no_hypocrisy]

12. Saddam Hussein.

Does Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's alleged "confession" simultaneously exculpate posthumously Saddam Hussein, thereby invalidating the illegal invasion of a sovereign country replete with execution of its democratically elected leader? How many war crimes can you write down in 30 seconds?

[Javaman]

15. I wonder how much thorizine they have this guy on? nt