Posted on 06/06/2008 4:13:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed dropped his legal defense and demanded the death penalty at his Guantanamo Bay arraignment hearing Thursday morning.
U.S. military judge Marine Col. Ralph Kolman asked Mohammed if he understood he would be executed if convicted for his role in organizing largest ever terrorist attack on American soil. "Yes, this is what I wish, to be a martyr for a long time," Mohammed told Kohlman. "I will, God willing, have this, by you."
Making sure Mohammed understood, Kohlmann asked again, “So you could be sentenced to death?”
Kolhmann got an angry retort. "Maybe you didn't understand what I said," he said. "Military forces are still in Iran and Afghanistan. They are still in our holy land. I am not talking about your American Constitution … your evil law. I am talking about God's law."’
In March 2007, Mohammed took credit for the 9/11 terrorist attacks “from A to Z” in a written statement. Prosecutors have been trying to schedule a formal trial for Mohammed this September, but progress has been riddled with legal challenges pertaining to the use of torture on Guantanamo Bay detainees and their rights under the Geneva Convention.
Reporters were given access to the arraignment hearing, the first time the press has been allowed to see Mohammed. Some of them were unnerved by the proceedings. CBS Correspondent Bob Orr, who covered the event, blogged, “You can pick your own word: bizarre … eerie … creepy. I settled on surreal
Mohammed seemed to be aware of the controversy surrounding his fate and was adamant about refusing legal advice from American lawyers, “I cannot accept any attorney who is not governed by sharia [Islamic] law. I will represent myself,” he said. “I will not be represented by anybody even if he is a Muslim, because he will be sworn to your American Constitution. I consider all the U.S. Constitution and laws evil. They are allowing for same-sexual marriages and many things that are very bad … Do you understand what I said?"
According to reports, the terrorist interrupted the judge several times and even sang holy verses in Arabic. In English, Mohammed complained about being tortured and not having “rights.” "It's an inquisition, not a trial!" he said. "We under five years were under torture. We don't have rights to anything. After all this torturing, they transfer us to inquisitionland in Guantánamo."
After the hearing concluded the ACLU rushed to Mohammed’s defense. “It hardly comes as any surprise that after holding individuals in solitary confinement for five years and subjecting them to torture, these detainees would reject the legal system and offers to represent them,” a statement from ACLU said.
From the article: “9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed dropped his legal defense and demanded the death penalty at his Guantanamo Bay arraignment hearing Thursday morning.”
He demanded the death penalty?
Must be he wants to insure that he does NOT receive the death penalty.
I wouldn’t mind obliging him.
What can I say? When he's right, he's right.
Though a mass-murderer should perhaps be a little more circumspect about the mote in other people's eyes.
Shouldn’t be a problem with that.
Cut his nuts off, roll him in bacon grease and throw him in a pit of wild hogs.
After the hearing concluded the ACLU rushed to Mohammed’s defense. “It hardly comes as any surprise that after holding individuals in solitary confinement for five years and subjecting them to torture, these detainees would reject the legal system and offers to represent them,” a statement from ACLU said.
These people are so clueless they can't help themselves.
He should be propped up against a wall and used for target practice on some army base.
Fine, he wants to be martyred, take him to the top of the tallest building in New York City, light a fire behind him and let him jump.
Better yet, throw him in a room, fill it with vaporized jet fuel, ignite the fuel, and just before he dies from having his lungs seared, drop a ton of broken glass and concrete on him.
What would be more horrifying to his fans, though, would be to keep him alive long enough to convert him to Christianity. Remember: at the end of "1984", the worst thing that happened to Winston was that just before he died, he loved Big Brother. This is how the radical mohammedans view the West. Let's oblige them by breaking their boy.
they ought to sentence him to 20 years hard labor - on a pig farm!
I say ok......death by pork!!!!!
Lets make him a martyr then... lets hold a public execution. but before we put a bullet between his eyes i say we dump a bucket of pig blood over him stuff his mouth with pig guts then send him packin to hell. Televise the whole thing start to finish and announce that we will do the same to all terrorists we catch.
I don’t care what he wants. He’s in the hands of the people he wanted to kill now, and we will determine his fate.
Okee Dokee
Let's feed him alive to hungry, feral pigs.
That ought to be a pretty good martyrdom.
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