Khalid Sheik Mohammed accuses U.S. of justifying murder, torture in name of security
Wearing a camouflage hunting vest, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks issued a blistering critique of U.S. defense policy during a court hearing in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Wednesday, saying Washington has wantonly used national security as a pretext to murder and torture.
“The president can take someone and throw him in the sea under the name of national security,” Khalid Sheik Mohammed said in an apparent reference to the slaying of former al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, speaking at a pre-trial motions hearing. “He can legislate the killings under the name of national security for American citizens.”
The remarks, which alluded to the drone strike killings of Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, U.S. citizens who were members of al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen, indicated that Mohammed is being kept abreast of current events. The tone of his intervention suggested Mohammed intends to use this trial as a forum to convey that his time in captivity has hardened his vitriol against the United States.
“The government is using the name of national security as it chooses,” Mohammed argued at the end of the third day of motions. He warned: “Don’t get affected by crocodile tears, because your blood is not made of gold and ours is made of water. We are all human beings.”
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As much as I despise KSM's criminal behavior, nobody can deny that US foreign policy DOES involve torture and extrajudicial murder and that neither should ever be condoned in any circumstance.
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