9/11 defendants ignore judge at Guantanamo hearing

AP via Yahoo! ^ | 5/5/12 | BEN FOX

[Slings and Arrows]

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — They knelt in prayer, ignored the judge and wouldn't listen to Arabic translations as they confronted nearly 3,000 counts of murder. The self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four co-defendants defiantly disrupted an arraignment that dragged into Saturday night in the opening act of the long-stalled effort to prosecute them in a military court.

It wasn't until more than seven hours into the hearing that prosecutors at the U.S. military base in Cuba began reading the charges against the men, including 2,976 counts of murder and terrorism in the 2001 attacks that sent hijacked jetliners into New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the admitted 9/11 architect, and the four men accused of aiding the 9/11 conspiracy put off their pleas until a later date. Lawyers were still discussing trial dates Saturday night; another hearing was set for June 12.

Earlier, Mohammed cast off his earphones providing Arabic translations of the proceeding and refused to answer Army Col. James Pohl's questions or acknowledge he understood them. All five men refused to participate in the hearing; two passed around a copy of The Economist magazine and leafed through the articles.

Walid bin Attash was confined to a restraint chair when he came into court, released only after he promised to behave

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Cheryl Bormann, a civilian attorney for bin Attash, appeared in a conservative Islamic outfit that left only her face uncovered and she asked the court to order other women present to wear "appropriate" clothing so that defendants do not have to avert their eyes "for fear of committing a sin under their faith."

[xrmusn]

I can understand the defense attorneys defending their clients -
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Yes....
Years ago some one took a potshot of some Mid Eastern leader and the guards got him almost immediately.
Somehow or other, we got involved and an announcement was made
(to the effect)
“Ali Ben Ali, accused attempted assassin of the Premier, will be given a fair trial on 55SEP55 at 0900.”
All villagers and townspeople will assemble in the Town Square at 1100 for the 1200 Execution by hanging”.

THAT is the kind of justice these animals (in Gitmo etc) understand.

[Jonty30]

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=CA#/watch?v=RrWSx46NlI4

This judge did a great job in putting a disruptive defendent in his place.

[ArmstedFragg]

Biggest mistake they made back when Mohammed made that statement about pleading guilty was not saying, “okay, sign here”.

[RightOnline]

What in the wide, wide world of sports.............????

[CT]

I say let them loose in the Nevada desert, then sight in some drones. Or hurl them from a skyscrapper.

THese f*ing monsters have already confessed.

[onedoug]

Who cares?

Convict them, then take them to 40,000 feet without parachutes and shove ‘em out. If they survive the fall they can go free.

Seems fair to me.

[denydenydeny]

Mohammed cast off his earphones providing Arabic translations of the proceeding and refused to answer Army Col. James Pohl's questions or acknowledge he understood them. All five men refused to participate in the hearing; two passed around a copy of The Economist magazine and leafed through the articles.

So they want to be petty and show their contempt for us? Okay.

Let me get my Koran out.

[PhilDragoo]

Give 'em the same trial the gutsy Obama bin Laden gave his cuz Osama bin Laden.

We aren't spending a decade in Iraq and Afghanistan bleeding noble lives and fortune we don't have in order to retrograde to the seventh century Manson cult.

Put Hello Kitty Hijab in the pokey for contempt.

Bring the rest to an Iowa hog confinement.

The hogs don't need translators.

Further this deponent sayeth not.

[Slings and Arrows]

It’s in the catbox.

[MinuteGal]

I thought a military tribunal was supposed to obviate all this maneuvering to use the court as a propaganda platform and to use the judge as a pinata.

This trial has begun on an ominous note. Already the details of the opening day are horrific. The judge better get in control immediately. The defense attorneys have wasted no time pecking away at his authority.

Leni

[Slings and Arrows]

I’m sure that they’re at least partially playing to the press. Beyond that...

[MinuteGal]

Of course they're playing to the press.

Like Ex-Lax, they work while we sleep.

Leni

[Popman]

a relative handful of people to destroy our cherished institutions, basic morality, and foundational ability to render judgments.

Yup...though unrelenting PC, tyranny of the minority, cravenness, fecklessness and simple cowardliness...mostly by republicans

[The Great RJ]

I hope that, like at the Nuremberg trials, justice gets done in spite of the circus. I especially hope SKM gets a death sentence.

While the thought of him hanging from the gallows or being shot by firing squad has its appeal, somehow our "humane" lethal injection system of execution might be more fitting as death comes at a slower pace. He will have plenty of time to contemplate while he is strapped down and a technician meticulously looks for a good vein, watching as he is hooked up to the IV and seeing his death slowly come sliding down that IV tube. No martyrdom in a fiery blaze or a hail of bullets or even a brave walk to the gallows just a slow wait for a painless inglorious death.

[DarkWaters]

Who here doesn't want to bet that this administration is having a helping hand in all of this.

[Yardstick]

Unbelievable.

[James C. Bennett]

"Bormann doesn't look like a Muslim in this pic. "

Did you expect a white Caucasian woman with blonde hair who converts to Islam to magically acquire Arabesque physical features?

[2111USMC]

Set them on fire. Then hurl them off a skyscraper.

[jazusamo]

That’s a current pic along with the other defense attoeneys, where’s her dhimmi garb? Maybe she converted for this client?

[Slings and Arrows]

That could work either way. Zer0’s commitment to the destruction of America is only matched by his commitment to his own power and privilege. There’s always plenty of room under that bus.