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Now that Obama wants to close Gitmo, how long will this trial take?
Five men charged in the Sept. 11 attacks mock U.S. authorities and proclaim themselves “terrorists to the bone” in a war crimes court filing released Tuesday.
The five Guantanamo prisoners use the six-page document to try to justify the killing of nearly 3,000 people, portraying the attack as a response to U.S. actions in Israel, Iraq and elsewhere that is supported by their Muslim faith.
All five were charged with murder and other crimes at the Guantanamo war crimes court, which was suspended by President Barack Obama in January while his administration considers new strategies for prosecuting terrorists.
They criticize the U.S. for fighting “from behind roadblocks, trenches and warplanes” rather than face-to-face and describe Islam as “a religion of fear” for Jews, Christians and pagans.
Obama has ordered the closure of Guantanamo, so if and when the trials resume, they will be held somewhere else and most likely under a different legal system than the widely criticized military commissions created by Congress and President George W. Bush.
If they want to plead guilty, why not let them?
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A failed small business owner, such as yourself.
>> dusanmal said, on March 10th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
>> Proof that Obama doesn’t want to fight terrorism but promote his own ideology.
What “proof”?
Perhaps Obama’s justice department has the good sense to know that a conviction and sentence will be useless, if there isn’t due process.