Posted on 04/18/2008 5:54:18 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
U.S. to televise Guantanamo trials to 9-11 families
By Jane Sutton 12 minutes ago
The U.S. military will televise the Guantanamo trial of accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five other suspects so relatives of those killed in the attacks can watch on the U.S. mainland.
"We're going to broadcast in real time to several locations that will be available just to victim families," Army Col. Lawrence Morris, chief prosecutor for the controversial war crimes court, said at the naval base recently.
In February, military prosecutors charged Mohammed and five other captives with murder and conspiracy and asked that they be executed if convicted of plotting to crash hijacked planes into New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001.
No trial date has been set but they are the first Guantanamo prisoners charged with direct involvement in the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
Morris said several of the victims' relatives asked to watch the trials at the detention center set up in Guantanamo Bay naval base to try foreign terrorism suspects.
The base sits on a dusty patch of the island of Cuba and does not have many flights, beds or courtroom seats to accommodate spectators.
The trials will be beamed to closed-circuit television viewing sites on military bases at Fort Hamilton in New York, Fort Monmouth in New Jersey, Fort Meade in Maryland and Fort Devens in Massachusetts, Morris said.
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Oh snap! They should just put it on pay-per-view...they would make millions!
Somebody please explain why they shouldn’t just broadcast it nationwide.
Some war
BTTT
If I see those harpy ‘Jersey Girls’ popping up on the MSM b*tching and moaning about the trials, I think my head will explode.
The ACLU has just now wet its pants.
BTTT
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