Posted on 10/12/2008 1:53:17 PM PDT by james500
A U.S. military judge has denied a request from professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for Internet access inside his Guantanamo cell, ruling he does not need it to prepare for his death penalty trial.
Judge Ralph Kohlmann, a Marine colonel, said Mohammed knew he would face prison restrictions when he chose to act as his own lawyer. His Oct. 6 ruling — which also applies to four co-defendants — was reviewed Sunday on a Pentagon Web site.
The five defendants held at the Guantanamo Bay Navy base face charges including conspiracy, hijacking and terrorism for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
The government said it was providing the men with laptop computers so they could review the evidence, but prosecutors argued at a pretrial hearing last month that giving them access to the outside world would pose a severe security risk.
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They should let him have internet access. But only to Free Republic. :^)
Damn! Just damn! The DailyKos just lost one of their main bloggers!
Cruel and unusual punishment. NO internet porn?
No way to communicate with their fellow murderers?
No way to effectively communicate with the sympathetic M.S.M.?
poor poor babies,
Give them one URL - I suggest the Weather Underground - that way they will know what the weather is going to be at Gitmo. With thanks to Sherriff Joe A.
HA! So there! It’s about damn time a judge was on the side of the USA!
mrs
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