9/11 planners for the high jump
THE Pentagon today said it would charge six Guantanamo inmates with 2,973 counts of murder over their role in the September 11 attacks.
The suspects include the self-confessed mastermind of the terror attacks, Khalid Sheik Mohammed.
“The defendants will face the possibility of being sentenced to death,” said Brigidier General Thomas Hartmann, a Pentagon legal advisor, announcing the move.Good!
The CIA admitted publicly for the first time last week, some of his confessions were extracted during sessions when he was subjected to “waterboarding,” a drowning simulation technique widely regarded as torture. Brigidier General Hartmann admitted that the first court battles are likely to focus on the admissibility of such confessions, as well as the legality of the tribunal itself. The tribunal rules have been extensively re-written since the Supreme Court ruled they breached the Geneva Convention and demanded more rights for defendants.Now we will have the Human Rights (no Responsibility) mob queuing up to prattle on about torture. Some will even demand they be released because they had water poured over their faces and a confession obtained under torture is no confession. Some of these people will be Americans, some Australian, all of whom enjoy the benefits of western civilization while trying to undermine what made it great in the first place. Just make sure they did it and then top the bastards – the terrorists that is. We have to put up with the other bastards.
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Kev
Good to see “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” is alive and well.
Since when is it legitimate to fight evil with evil.
It never works and degrades the perpetrators on both sides.
There is no prospect of them getting a fair trial as they are kangaroo courts.
The US military are frightened to take them before civil courts because they would not be able to gain convitions if they have to rely on untainted evidence and rely on the rules of evidence.
Peter, as always you add nothing to the debate. Remembering that the 9/11 planners attacked and murdered thousands of civilians without warning are you saying that the US response to the obscenity is evil or do you just hate the US because they exist?