Posted on 08/09/2007 5:12:16 PM PDT by LdSentinal
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Fourteen suspected terrorists listed as "high-value detainees" at the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been designated as enemy combatants, placing them in line to be charged and put on trial by the U.S. military, Pentagon officials said Thursday.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of 9/11, was moved to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, last September.
The detainees -- including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind behind the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States -- were moved to Guantanamo Bay by the president last September after being held in secret CIA prisons around the world.
All 14 detainees went through closed hearings before a military panel to determine whether they would be eligible for a military tribunal.
Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England approved their designation as enemy combatants by the panels, paving the way for military prosecutors to charge them, Pentagon officials said.
Among the other high-value detainees are Ramzi bin al-Shibh, alleged to be another key 9/11 planner; and Abu Faraj al-Libi, allegedly a top al Qaeda planner.
In transcripts released from the hearings, Mohammed said he was responsible for the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and acknowledged he planned the 9/11 attacks.
"I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z," Mohammed said through a military representative at his hearing in March.
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C’mon. Make the trials public. Televise them nationwide, just before the ‘08 Elections.
I’m disgusted that these ******* weren’t atthe end of a rope 2 months after they were captured.
About time. I think Mohammed, Al-Shibh, and a few of their cohorts hanging at the end of a rope would send a suitable message.
the wheels of justice grind much to slowly.
Get the damn trials going already will you. How many more years will go by before these animals pay with their hides?
That depends entirely on how much we can extract from them in the mean while...
Ping.
How many years...
bump!
Great news!
I would say about 3,000 years, and that is only one per death.
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