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Thursday, June 05, 2008 --- 91 days ago http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/06/05/ksm-faces-tribunal-charged-in-9
 Filed under: Bush Administration , Featured Stories , Terror Kalid Sheikh Mohammed, former al-Qaeda operations chief and the alleged mastermind of the September 11th attacks, made is first public appearance today after being captured in Pakistan in 2003. Mohammed was arraigned by a special military war crimes tribunal at the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Four other defendants were arraigned along with Mohammad, Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, Waleed bin Attash, and Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali. All of the defendants are charged with complicity in the attacks, from selecting the hijackers, to distributing funds used to prepare for and carry out the attacks, to helping to train the hijackers. Lawyers for the defendants complained during and after the proceedings that the military commissions were inadequate and a substandard method of administering justice. Navy Commander Suzanne Lachelier, a defense lawyer, said, "I think the American people, if they ... understood the ramifications in the long term to our Constitution, to their Constitution, I think they would be ashamed." A civilian attorney, Thomas Durkin, representing Bin al-Shiebh, said that the terrorists should be heard in Federal court. "We have had many terrorism cases in our federal court system," Durkin said. "I think it is a shame that for whatever reason the Bush administration has put on what we think is a show trial." But the nearly three ... |
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