Khalid Sheik Mohammed

Khalid Sheik Mohammed Trial Less Likely As Opposition Grows

Washington Post | Peter Finn and Anne E. Kornblut | Posted 05.25.2011

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Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, will probably remain in military detention without trial for the...

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George W. Bush Defends Waterboarding: Would Waterboard Khalid Sheik Mohammed Again

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Former President George W. Bush says if he had it to do over, he would still waterboard the self-professed mastermind of t...

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Try Mohammed at Guantanamo

Vincent J. Vitkowsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Vincent J. Vitkowsky

The suggestion that using civilian trials would serve as a symbol of the strength of our justice system is misplaced. Reality is more important than symbolism, and in reality, it is a no-win situation.

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Philly To Host Terrorist Trial? Please, Please, Please (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Steve Young | Posted 05.25.2011

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(Excerpted form today's Philadelphia Inquirer) Dear Mayor Nutter: Bring The Trial Here by Steve Young "We need to manage expectations about what we c...

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Obama To Help Pick Location Of KSM Trial

The Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama is planning to insert himself into the debate about where to try the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, three administ...

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Bush DOJ Vets Defend Holder's KSM Decisions

Washington Post | Jim Comey and Jack Goldsmith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reasonable minds can disagree about Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to prosecute Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other alleged Sept. 11 perpetr...

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Terrorists on Trial: Do We Give Them What They Want?

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the end the defendants will likely be glad to admit in civilian court what they did and say they are ready to die. The question then becomes what does the court do?

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New Khalid Sheik Mohammed Photo Surfaces Days Before 9/11 Anniversary

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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A new photograph of Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM), one of the accused masterminds of 9/11, surfaced on the internet on Wednesday, the Miami Herald repor...

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Sept. 11 Planner Recast As An Asset for CIA, Leading "Terrorist Tutorials"

washingtonpost.com | Peter Finn, Joby Warrick and Julie Tate | Posted 05.25.2011

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After enduring the CIA's harshest interrogation methods and spending more than a year in the agency's secret prisons, Khalid Sheik Mohammed stood befo...

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Al-Qaida Used Hotmail, Public Phones In Planning

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — In the days following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, alleged al-Qaida operations mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed intended to use...

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CIA Waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 183 Times In One Month

FireDogLake | EmptyWheel | Posted 05.25.2011

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I've put this detail in a series of posts, but it really deserves a full post. According to the May 30, 2005 Bradbury memo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was...

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9/11 suspects: 'We are terrorists to the bone'

AP | BEN FOX | Posted 05.25.2011

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The self-professed mastermind and four other men charged in the Sept. 11 attacks declared they are "terrorists to the bo...

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9/11 Mastermind's Interrogation: Cracking A Terrorist

New York Times | SCOTT SHANE | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a makeshift prison in the north of Poland, Al Qaeda's engineer of mass murder faced off against his Central Intelligence Agency interrogator. It wa...

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