9/11 Suspects to Be Charged Again at Gitmo

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: NBC New York

The Pentagon will announce today that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four alleged 9/11 co-conspirators are being charged for a second time through the military commissions at Guantanamo, NBC News has learned.

The Office of Military Commissions sent a letter to families of 9/11 victims on Monday notifying them of the update in the case. After a judge is assigned, a panel of military officers will be selected as potential members of the commission, and then the accused will be arraigned within 30 days, the letter said.

The letter also notified families that the Office of Military Commissions will be seeking to meet with them for witness interviews next month during trial preparations.

The five defendants were first charged by the military commissions on February 11, 2008.

Read more: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/Khalid-Sheikh-Mohammed-911-Suspects-Guantanamo-122878234.html

[gratuitous]

1. The actors finally ready to play Broadway (so to speak)?

And, this being a "military" tribunal of non-military folks, I suppose the circumstances of their detention won't be allowed into evidence. Will they have their own counsel, or be supplied with attorneys appointed for them out of the ranks of the military? And would we stand for our own citizens to be tried by another country's military under similar circumstances?

What were all those people we honored yesterday dying for, again? I get confused, because this doesn't look much like truth, justice and the American way the way I learned it.

[dipsydoodle]

4. They're getting ready for

Gitmo : The Musical.

[littlewolf]

2. I thought Gitmo was being closed ......

didn't President Obama sign paperwork closing it ....
I really havn't paid much attention to it as I really thought
that the holding facility was being shut down .....

[Freddie Stubbs]

7. Congress forbid him from spending any money to do so

[hughee99]

10. I recall that as well, and remember people listing it as one of his accomplishments.

He signed the paperwork his first week in office to have it closed within the year, and that was 3 years ago.

[Nihil]

11. That was in a different dimension of his "chess game" ...

... like most of the other bits where he "isn't like Bush" ...
:eyes:

[blackspade]

3. Ridiculous

This should be an open civilian criminal trial.
This crime occurred in NYC, not in a war theater.
More kabuki bullshit, to 'keep the American people safe.'

[buckrogers1965]

5. Oh good, show trials.

And here I thought our slide into our twilight soviet era was slowing down. Nope.

[Freddie Stubbs]

9. If they really wanted to do a show trial, wouldn't they do it somewhere like NYC rather than

a military base outside of the US?

[leveymg]

6. Now, finally, they'll execute the remaining witnesses.

[libodem]

8. At least they have charges

Wonder if the suspects and their attorneys get to know them? Held without
charges, tried without evidence. America the beautiful.