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Opposition to U.S. trial likely to keep mastermind of 9/11 attacks in detention
The Washington Post ^ | November 13, 2010 | Peter Finn and Anne E. Kornblut

Posted on 11/13/2010 1:07:35 PM PST by ColdOne

Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, will probably remain in military detention without trial for the foreseeable future, according to Obama administration officials.

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1 posted on 11/13/2010 1:07:36 PM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

Military Tribunal with death sentence seems appropriate.

After he is water-boarded more and given sodium penathol to elicit more information from this dirt-bag.


2 posted on 11/13/2010 1:10:10 PM PST by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: ColdOne
“The White House has made it clear that President Obama will ultimately make the decision, and a federal prosecution of Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators has not been ruled out, senior officials said. Still, they acknowledge that a trial is unlikely to happen before the next presidential election and, even then, would require a different political environment.”

“Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said this week that a decision on a trial for Mohammed was close. Other administration officials said that his remark was simply a stock response to a frequently asked question and that it didn't signal that any announcement was imminent.”

Sounds like this has been put off because Chucky Schumer and Gov.-elect Cuomo had a little talk with the Boy Wonder and told him that it just wasn't going to happen. And given the Boy Wonder's “shellacking,” he wasn't in much of a position to disagree.

3 posted on 11/13/2010 1:20:03 PM PST by mojito
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To: ColdOne

Looks like a case of “kicking the can” down the road rather than dealing with this guy and giving some sense of justice and cloure to the 1,000’s of families that lost loved one’s on 9-11.


4 posted on 11/13/2010 1:21:48 PM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

But Obama said we’re at our strongest when we live up to our highest ideals and all that.

So Eric Holder and Obama don’t want us to live up to our highest ideals and give war criminals their fair civilian trial? Which is it, are we the America of our highest liberal ideals or not??????


5 posted on 11/13/2010 1:26:38 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Given the ‘civilian trials’ that is probably a good idea’.


6 posted on 11/13/2010 1:53:50 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: ColdOne

What is wrong with taking him out back and just shooting the scumbag.


7 posted on 11/13/2010 2:09:30 PM PST by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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