Posted on 03/10/2009 4:16:39 PM PDT by kellynla
The five detainees at Guantánamo Bay charged with planning the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have filed a document with the military commission at the United States naval base there expressing pride at their accomplishment and accepting full responsibility for the killing of nearly 3,000 people.
The document, which may be released publicly on Tuesday, uses the Arabic term for a consultative assembly in describing the five men as the "9/11 Shura Council," and it says their actions were an offering to God, according to excerpts of the document that were read to a reporter by a government official who was not authorized to discuss it publicly.
The document is titled "The Islamic Response to the Government's Nine Accusations," the military judge at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp said in a separate filing, obtained by The New York Times, that describes the detainees' document. The document was filed on behalf of the five men, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who has described himself as the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.
President Obama halted the military proceedings at Guantánamo in the first days after his inauguration, and the five men's case is on hiatus until the government decides how it will proceed.
Several of the men have earlier said in military commission proceedings at Guantánamo that they planned the 2001 attacks and that they sought martyrdom. The strategic goal of the five men in making the new filing, which reached the military court on March 5, was not clear.In their filing, the men describe the planning of the Sept. 11 attacks and the killing of Americans as a model of Islamic action, and say the American government's accusations cause them no shame, according to the excerpts read by the government official."To us," the official continued reading, "they are not accusations. To us they are a badge of honor, which we carry with honor."
What are the chances that the American public will hear this news and still want these men released or tried in a civilian/domestic court?
Heck, what are the chances the American public will hear this news at all?
Can’t we reach out to the most moderate one in that group?
all we can do is email everyone we know so they can email everyone they know...
[What are the chances that the American public will hear this news and still want these men released or tried in a civilian/domestic court?]
The American public elected a President who robs them and they support him, therefore proving the American public is stupid, using the axiom stupid is as stupid does.
And even if the American public were informed by the communist liberal news media, the majority would continue to walk blindly off the clift while the Pied Piper plays his tune, all the while professing themselves to be wise as they fell to their deaths.
It is a time when the majority of Americans live in delusion and it sure is obvious to those who know America, much like the republican party, is dead.
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