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Why Does KSM Want to be Executed?
Nationalreview.com ^ | December 09, 2008 | Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on 12/09/2008 3:36:57 PM PST by ventanax5

We don’t understand our enemies any better than we did when they first strode out on that great American stage, the federal courtroom, 15 years ago.

That is the upshot of Monday’s latest episode in Mohammed’s March to Martyrdom, a dreadful show that should close in Cuba before ever making it to the Great White Way. Five top al-Qaeda terrorists told a military judge at Guantanamo Bay that they want to skip their commission trial, admit — no, brag about — their guilt, and proceed straight to execution and its promised eternity of Boogie Nights.

Mohammed, of course, is none other than KSM, the black artist formerly known as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. That was before he orchestrated the 9/11 atrocities, vaulting into that small circle of celebrity where the initials are all you need to know. Infamy is the achievement of a lifetime for this Baluchi marauder turned courtroom diva. It’s what he has always craved: to be known . . . and feared.

In the mid-Nineties, he was just an up-and-comer: anteing up a paltry $660 for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, then co-designing the off-off-Broadway run of Bojinka: an ambitious 1994 production designed to slaughter hundreds of Americans by exploding their cross-Pacific flights in midair — a production that collapsed when a preview detonation failed to bring down the plane, though it did manage to kill a Japanese tourist.

KSM was green with envy when those pilots became star turns for other terrorists: his mad-scientist nephew, Ramzi Yousef, and Omar Abdel Rahman, the capo di tutti jihadi known in America’s living rooms as “the Blind Sheikh.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; 911mastermind; gitmo; islam; jihad; martyrs; mohammedanism; mohammedanism122008; terrortrials; worldtradecenter; wot

1 posted on 12/09/2008 3:36:57 PM PST by ventanax5
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To: ventanax5

Oblige him. There is nothing new to be learned from him that he didn’t already spill during his surfing lessons. Waste no further time: string him up.


2 posted on 12/09/2008 3:42:54 PM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: ventanax5
"Why Does KSM Want to be Executed?"

Balderdash. He's just saying that because he figures they'll do the opposite of what he says ('reverse psychology'). Unfortunately, it'll probably work. We are a nation of suckers who fall for almost any trick or deception.

3 posted on 12/09/2008 3:47:45 PM PST by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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To: ventanax5

He just doesn’t want to end up in another countries prisons that make Gitmo look like the 5 star hotel it really is.


4 posted on 12/09/2008 3:51:12 PM PST by Cyman
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To: ventanax5

Why? Because the Gitmo system works. It is driving them crazy. A little at a time. Good! Maybe more will go the way of their leader. Now get them to trial and hang the rag heads.


5 posted on 12/09/2008 4:15:23 PM PST by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: ventanax5

The 72 virgins? Seriously, put him in a hog carcass, THEN kill him. “No paradise for you!”


6 posted on 12/09/2008 4:29:54 PM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: 70th Division; cardinal4

I’d prefer to see KSM spend the rest of his life in solitary confinement at the Supermax Prison at Florence, CO. No human contact for the rest of his miserable life.


7 posted on 12/09/2008 4:31:15 PM PST by Ax
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To: ventanax5

Because he does not want to spend his life in a small jail cell feeling humiliated. He would rather be dead than to remain humiliated.


8 posted on 12/09/2008 4:34:34 PM PST by Jeff Gordon ("An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last." Churchill)
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To: ventanax5
Who cares why? Just tell him to smile and look at the little birdie...





9 posted on 12/09/2008 4:47:30 PM PST by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts.....)
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To: ETL
Somehow this reminds me of Timothy McVey’s exit.
10 posted on 12/09/2008 4:49:56 PM PST by hummingbird (If Obama wins, I'm already sick of his first four years.)
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To: ventanax5

Put him in a windowless cell, keep changing the arrow pointing east, and force feed him pork for the rest of his life.


11 posted on 12/09/2008 5:59:47 PM PST by yazoo
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