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9/11 "mastermind" Kalid Sheik Mohammed to be tried in New York

Posted 13 Nov 2009 in 9/11, Barack Obama, jihadists, outrage, Religion of Peace update, stupidity, terrorism, war

Leave it to President Obama to bring 9/11 terrorists from Gitmo to stand trial in New York City rather than in a military tribunal. How long do you think it will take before their lawyers, CAIR, and the ACLU petition to declare a mistrial and have them released because “they can’t get a fair trial.”

WASHINGTON — Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, and five other suspects will be sent to military commissions, an Obama administration official said Friday.

The official said Attorney General Eric Holder plans to announce the decision later in the morning. The official is not authorized to discuss the decision before the announcement, so spoke on condition of anonymity.

Without confirming details of the decision, President Barack Obama said it was a legal and national security matter. ”I am absolutely convinced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be subjected to the most exacting demands of justice,” Obama said at a joint news conference in Tokyo with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.

Bringing such notorious suspects to U.S. soil to face trial is a key step in Obama’s plan to close the terror suspect detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Obama initially planned to close the detention center by Jan. 22, but the administration is no longer expected to meet that deadline.

It is also a major legal and political test of Obama’s overall approach to terrorism. If the case suffers legal setbacks, the administration will face second-guessing from those who never wanted it in a civilian courtroom. And if lawmakers get upset about notorious terrorists being brought to their home regions, they may fight back against other parts of Obama’s agenda.

”This is definitely a seismic shift in how we’re approaching the war on al-Qaida,” said Glenn Sulmasy, a law professor at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy who has written a book on national security justice. ”It’s certainly surprising that the five masterminds, if you will, of the attacks on the United States will be tried in traditional, open federal courts.”

Now that these TERRORISTS will be on U.S. soil, they will no doubt be given Miranda and Fourth Amendment rights. And that’s beside the fact that lawyer weasels will likely use the fact that Mohammed was waterboarded to have the evidence thrown out of court. These are foreigners who should be classified as enemy combatants and tried by our military. But President Obama, in yet another narcissistic move, is making decisions not based on what’s right for America, but what will improve his standing in the global community. And the Obama administration has yet to clarify what will be done with these terrorists once they have served their sentences — and that’s if they are even convicted. Will they be deported or will they be released into American communities?

Here is an excerpt of the petition — written by 9/11 families — for President Obama to try the terrorists with a duly-constituted military commission.

We adamantly oppose prosecuting the 9/11 conspirators in Article III courts, which would provide them with the very rights that may make it possible for them to escape the justice which they so richly deserve. We believe that military commissions, which have a long and honorable history in this country dating back to the Revolutionary War, are the appropriate legal forum for the individuals who declared war on America. With utter disdain for all norms of decency and humanity, and in defiance of the laws of warfare accepted by all civilized nations, these individuals targeted tens of thousands of civilian non-combatants, brutally killing 3,000 men, women and children, injuring thousands more, and terrorizing millions.

It is morally offensive to offer Constitutional protections to individuals charged with murdering 3,000 individuals, in essence, to jeopardize justice for war crimes victims, in order to make an appeal to the Muslim world. The use of Article III courts after the 1993 World Trade Center attack didn’t stop any of the subsequent terrorist plots, including the attack on Khobar Towers, 19 Americans killed, the 1998 East African Embassy bombing, 212 killed, the USS Cole bombing, 17 sailors killed. The attacks of 9/11 were a resounding rebuke to the view that federal courts were an appropriate counterterrorism strategy. Afterward, we didn’t send law enforcement personnel to apprehend the perpetrators, we sent the United States military, who captured them and held them pursuant to the 2001 Authorization of the Use of Military Force (AUMF).

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