From the Associated
Press:
The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will
plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S.
foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said
Sunday. Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist
Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in
the 2001 attacks but "would explain what happened and why they
did it."
The terrorists won't be put on trial, they're already
pleading guilty. In their minds, their trial is over. In their
minds, it is now time for them to put the American system on
trial. The 9/11 co-conspirators are going to explain to the rest
of the world, why they felt justified in crashing four jumbo-jets
into the heart of America.
This is going to get ugly.
Regarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Attorney General Holder states
that "the world will see him for the coward that he is." That's a
curious choice of words: "coward." Several months ago, Mr. Holder
said that America is a "nation of cowards."
I haven't forgotten that.
Holder went on to say "I'm not scared of what
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has to say at trial -- and no one else
needs to be, either."
I'm not scared of what he has to say. I know what he has to say.
I just don't think we need to provide him with a platform to
speak his misanthropic views with impunity courtesy of the United
States Constitution.
I wonder how many Major Nidal Hasan's are out there, eagerly
awaiting to hear what Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has to say from the
stand, in the center of America's 9/11 wound? I'm sure they're
not afraid of what he has to say, either.
