SubscribeKhalid Sheikh Mohammed Wants To Be Martyr
From his fans at the Associated Press:
Suspected 9/11 mastermind wants death penalty
June 5, 2008
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, CUBA — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, appearing for the first time since his capture five years ago, said he would welcome becoming a “marytr” after a judge warned Thursday that he faces the death penalty for his confessed role as mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Wearing thick glasses and occasionally fussing with his turban or stroking his bushy gray beard, Mohammed seemed noticeably thinner than the image of a slovenly man with disheveled hair, an unshaven face and a T-shirt that the U.S. showed to the world after his capture in Pakistan.
Mohammed sang verses from the Quran, rejected his attorneys and told Judge Ralph Kohlmann, a Marine colonel, that he wants to represent himself at the war crimes trial.
The judge warned that he faces execution if convicted of organizing the attacks on America. But the former No. 3 leader of al-Qaida was insistent.
“Yes, this is what I wish, to be a martyr for a long time,” Mohammed declared. “I will, God willing, have this, by you.”
Mohammed and his four alleged co-conspirators each face death if convicted of war crimes including murder, conspiracy, attacking civilians and terrorism by hijacking planes to attack U.S. landmarks. The murder charges involve the deaths of 2,973 people at the World Trade Center, Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania where passengers forced down their plane…
Mohammed seemed calm for the most part, but became upset and denounced the tribunals as unfair after the judge told defense lawyers to be quiet and “sit down!”
“It’s an inquisition. It’s not a trial,” Mohammed said, his voice rising. “After torturing they transfer us to inquisition land in Guantanamo.”
The five men, sitting at separate tables, spoke with each other in Arabic, appeared to pass notes to each other and at one point looked back and chuckled at reporters watching from behind a courtroom window.
None wore handcuffs, but the ankles of Ramzi Binalshibh, said to have been the main intermediary between the hijackers and al-Qaida leaders, were shackled to the courtroom floor.
All appeared to be in robust health except for Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, who allegedly selected and trained some of the 19 hijackers. He looked thin and frail and sat on a pillow on his chair.
Calmly propping his glasses on his turban to peer at legal papers, Mohammed grinned at times and insisted that he would not be represented by any attorneys. He told the judge he “can only accept Sharia law.”
“There is no God but him, in him I have put my trust,” Mohammed sang before Kohlmann asked him to stop…
Mohammed told the judge he understands there are certain subjects he should not bring up in court, but said the Quran should be within the “green line,” or permitted…
“I can’t mention about the torturing,” Mohammed added in broken English. “I know this is the red line.”
Military commissions have been conducted since George Washington used them after the end of the Revolutionary War, but this is the first time the United States has used them during an ongoing conflict, said Air Force Brig. Gen. Tom Hartmann, a top tribunal official…
We say let him have his way.
But of course his plea for martyrdom will just garner him more praise from the likes of Bill Mahrer, Cindy Sheehan and the other champions of these courageous “freedom fighters.”
Military commissions have been conducted since George Washington used them after the end of the Revolutionary War, but this is the first time the United States has used them during an ongoing conflict, said Air Force Brig. Gen. Tom Hartmann, a top tribunal official.
If General Hartmann actually said this, which one somehow doubts, then he is surprisingly uninformed.
Even Wikipedia knows better:
Military tribunals in the United States
The United States has made use of military tribunals or commissions, rather than rely on a court martial, within the military justice system, during times of declared war or rebellion.
General George Washington used military tribunals during the American Revolution. Commissions were also used by General (and later President) Andrew Jackson during the War of 1812 to try a British spy; commissions, labeled “Councils of War,” were also used in the Mexican-American War.
The Union used military tribunals during and in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War. Military tribunals were used to try Native Americans who fought the United States during the Indian Wars which occurred during the Civil War; the thirty-eight people who were executed after the Dakota War of 1862 were sentenced by a military tribunal. The so-called Lincoln conspirators were also tried by military commission in the spring and summer of 1865…
President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered military tribunals for eight German prisoners accused of planning sabotage in the United States as part of Operation Pastorius. Roosevelt’s decision was challenged, but upheld, in Ex parte Quirin. All eight of the accused were convicted and sentenced to death. Six were executed by electric chair at the District of Columbia jail on August 8, 1942…
But of course the AP will cite (or misquote) anyone to undermine the prosecution of their hero.
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June 5th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
It would be great if we could lock him up for life and deny him access to the press. Unfortunately, that won’t happen. Which leads to a real Catch 22 - kill him and make him a marytr, which he wants, or let him live, thereby showing the compassion of which he is void, but leaving him as a tool of the anti-America useful idiots.
June 5th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
I bet if you started sawing his head off with a dull knife he would change his tune about being a martyr in a NY minute.
June 5th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
A breathless update from the Associated Press:
Isn’t that cute?
Mind you, this is a man who killed 3,000 Americans and who had hoped to kill thousands more.
But to the AP he is just a charmer.
Why is that?
June 5th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Is our press for real?
June 5th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
If Brig Gen Hartmann is a JAG officer, then you bet he’s an idiot! If I’d ever faced UCMJ action when I was in the Air Force, I’d have wanted a civilian attorney with past military experience, because, contrary to the TV series JAG, military lawyers are some of the dumbest practicing law!
As exhibit “A,” I present Lt. Col. Lindsay Graham, JAG, USAFR…
June 5th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
“If Brig Gen Hartmann is a JAG officer, then you bet he’s an idiot!”
Gen. Hartmann has been basically been overseeing the tribunals for the government.
Thomas W. Hartmann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_W._Hartmann
I hope he isn’t an idiot. I suspect he was misquoted.
June 5th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
What an interesting conversation that must have been.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed; “Does this turban make my nose look big?”
Janet Hamlin; “No. Your nose makes your nose look big, asshole!”
June 5th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
How come Mr. Mohammed doesn’t object to images being made of him? That is strictly forbidden under Islam.
Unless, of course, it might help make you famous.
June 5th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Steve, you’ve nailed it again…mohammedan hypocrisy knows no bounds. Anything goes for them, as long as it spreads islime.
KSM is just being true to his alleged religion. And you know the shill media will portray him as the victim.
June 5th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
“The confessed mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America said a courtroom artist at his arraignment Thursday made his nose look too big.”
He’s just worried that it makes him look Jewish.
June 5th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
The same can be said for the use of alcohol, drugs, entertainment media, women……..the list could go on and on. Any action that would otherwise be considered apostasy is allowed if it furthers jihad. In other words, the “end” will always justify the “means” and all transgressions enumerated in the koran are not really considered evil if done in the name of allah and directed toward non-believers.
Some religion, that, huh?
June 5th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Sorry if I sound mean BUT , I would wrap him in a pigskin suit and hang him so he will know that he is going to hell!
June 5th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Khalid is just being a good mooselimb, in his own mind. JohnMG is correct in his assessment that “the end will always justify the means”.
This worthless Sheikh is just following the Qur”an, namely the passages YusufAli 3:28 and 16:106 which is the practice known as al-taqiyya.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taqiyya
Outright lies, false accusations, denial, you name it. It’s all OK in the name of Allah (T/Mbuh ;o)) as long as you feel it furthers the cause of Islam.
Indeed JohnMG, that’s some religion alright.
June 6th, 2008 at 2:07 am
If ya wanted to REALLY be a martyr then why weren’t you on the planes?!? If the Muslim masterminds including Bin Laden were so martyrical then why are they hiding? Such difficult questions, such simple answers. What a load of Bull Shiite………………….. ;-)
June 6th, 2008 at 3:06 am
If he wants to be a martyr so badly, let’s help him out.
Of course being a martyr means you don’t get to dictate your own terms, so if you’re sprayed down with bacon grease first and have the death penalty administered by an unclean woman, it’s all OK, you’ve died for Islam, right?
But no, can’t do that.
After all KSM probably has a position waiting for him in Obama’s cabinet.
June 6th, 2008 at 4:35 am
Next thing you know, the gov’t will be giving him a free nose job. After all, don’t they provide hormones, etc. to those who hope to have a sex change operation? (Oy, what is our world coming to?)
June 6th, 2008 at 8:13 am
Yeah I wrestled with this for about two nanoseconds - martyr, smartyr - after he has been found guilty - then execute him. Because I know no matter what happens, if he lives - some pc whiner liberal somewhere will let him go and he will go back to terrorism. It is happening with the ones already let go - so let’s kill them before they kill us.
Yes, such brave martyrs they all are, send the poor, stupid, infirm, insane and women to do the dying for themselves. No wonder the fiberals love them so much - they both subscribe to the Do As I Say, Not As I Do hypocritical belief system.
Sounds like KSM et al have been watching PSMBC and Communist News Network to insure that the key ‘talking points’ were emphasised all through their little tirades - gotta give the
msmoops propaganda machine their headlines.June 6th, 2008 at 9:17 am
BillK,
What if we toss him into a pen of hungry hogs. Give ‘em about a week munching on him. Then he gets to spend eternity as hog waste. Let’s see if he gets all those virgins after that!
June 6th, 2008 at 10:15 am
OH CAN I - CAN I - LET ME GO FIRST! LET ME DO IT FOR HIM!!!
June 6th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Lurkin, that would just make radical Muslims the world over hate the United States and start a jihad against…
What? Oh.