9-11 plotters want to plead guilty

NY Times:

All five of the Guantánamo detainees charged with planning and coordinating the Sept. 11 attacks have asked a military judge to accept their confessions in full. The request appeared to be intended to cut short any effort to try them, and to challenge the United States government to put them to death.

At the start of what had been expected to be routine proceedings Monday, the military judge, Col. Steven Henley, disclosed that he had received a written statement from the five men. The statement said the five planned to stop filing written motions and instead “to announce our confessions to plea in full.”

As he questioned one of the men, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has described himself as the mastermind of the 2001 attacks, Judge Henley of the United States Army asked whether Mr. Mohammmed was prepared to enter pleas to the charges against him today. “Yes,” Mr. Mohammed answered brusquely.

“We don’t want to waste our time with motions,” Mr. Mohammed said. “All of you are paid by the U.S. government. I’m not trusting any American.”

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But the judge said that even if he agreed to accept the pleas on Monday, he would hold a later session to examine the full facts behind the detainees’ decisions to plead guilty.

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This is bad news for the truthers who believe 9-11 was an inside job, but I am sure their paranoia will sustain them through this setback. I am not one who cares whether KSM is "trusting any American." He is a guy who deserves the death penalty and I hope the judge does not mess around in sentencing him.

There will be some who will whine about the forum, but that is just a form over substance argument that has little merit in my opinion anyway. The terrorist rights crowd will have another day to screw things up and Obama may just be the guy to help them, but for now we should proceed with some justice for the murdered people of 9-11.

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