Posted on 01/18/2017 8:50:21 PM PST by nickcarraway
As his time in the White House winds down, President Barack Obama received an unusual piece of mail: a letter from accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Officials confirmed that the letter arrived at the White House to CBS News, but are declining to provide further details.
Mohammed is awaiting his death-penalty trial at Guantanamo Bay, accused of planning and orchestrating the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001.
The Miami Herald, which first reported on the letter, says it was written in 2014, and was only delivered after a judge ordered reluctant Guantanamo Bay prison officials to put it in the mail.
The Herald reports that because it was delivered before Donald Trump takes office on Friday, Mr. Obama should be able to take it with him into private life.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Play VIDEO Khalid Sheikh Mohammed The Herald reports Mohammed “wrote to Obama in 2014 about ‘Muslim oppression at the hands of the West in general and the United States in particular,’ his lawyer David Nevin said then. He also shares his views on what happened in Iraq during the period of U.S. sanctions and ‘events in Palestine and Gaza over the years.’”
The Pentagon’s chief war crimes prosecutor, Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, reportedly did not want the letter delivered, saying it amounted to propaganda.
Mohammed has been described previously by observers as something of an attention junkie. He has asked to wear military camouflage in court, saved berries from his meals to dye his beard orange, and flipped through magazines while being spoken to by a judge.
Before being taken to Guantanamo Bay following his 2003 capture in his pajamas in a suburban Pakistan home, Mohammed was subjected to the most brutal of the CIA’s harsh interrogation methods, and he reportedly confessed to a host of atrocities.
With this letter, and the two books he had someone else write, his LIBRARY is not going to need more than one shelf.
A presidential pardon is on the way!
Why the letter?
Obama has probably been in contact with KSM for years through the backdoor channels (Gubmint lawyers)
Didn’t Holder have some ties to his defense team?
Bammy read about it on the news, just like me.
“... Mohammed was subjected to the most brutal of the CIA’s harsh interrogation methods, and he reportedly confessed to a host of atrocities.”
Seems that the enhanced interrogation was effective then.
First thing I thought of too. He wouldn't dare, would he?
I can't even imagine the national outrage, the whole country would be up in arms.
Hopefully he’ll be swinging from a rope by year’s end.
Damned, harsh interrogation methods. What? The CIA showed him nude photos of Rosie O’Donnell and Michael Moore?
Hell, I’d confess to being Napoleon the Fourth if I saw them.
Oh the horror of it all!
A CBS (Communist Bull Shit) network piece. Figures.
I can’t even imagine the national outrage, the whole country would be up in arms.
I wish that were true. I really do. It should be..... but we have a large number of people who would probably say “America’s chickens have come home to roost.”
That did not outrage enough people either.
Fan mail from some flounder?
Delayed until after the 2016 election to avoid the hit to Democrat chances?
I’m sure he rather enjoys his internment at the Caribbean “prison” and has no interest in being returned to whatever hellhole might accept him. I don’t put it past N’Obama to let his pardon be his last official act.
booty call
Why wasn’t this guy shot after the final waterboarding?
It was probably a thank-you note for eight years of helping the jihadist cause.
Congratulations on the good work my brother, and thank you for your valiant effort to free us all from this cursed vacation we have been on in Cuba and thanks to your new Cuban policy, you may now enjoy a vacation here as well if you wish.... BTW - I voted for you both times, and I would praise Allah as always if you were to find the time to offer my good friend Hillary a pardon before your departure. Of course, if you were to offer me one as well, I will pledge my new found freedom to vanquish your enemies.
Yours most sincerely and your friend always. Your main main
Khalid
Probably a LOVE letter from one Muslim terrorist to another! A THANK YOU note!
Get real....3/4 of our country have no idea of who this even is!
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