Terrorist’s defense for Sept. 11 now available – legal document

If you were wondering how defense council for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other four terrorists might proceed when they are brought to a criminal court in New York City, look no further than the Islamic response to the United States’ accusations signed by the four accused in March.

Hat tip to Pamela Gellar over at Atlas Shrugs for this.

The document (PDF courtesy the Department of Defense) is a pro se filing giving us clear insight as to what the defense will be when and if the accused are ever brought to trial. You guessed it, the United States will be on trial. In the document signed by all five, they go point-by-point through the nine accusations brought forward by the United States, and blames everything on the infidels.

Here comes the big show trial. Some select defense arguments to come…

Your intelligence apparatus, with all its abilities, human and logistical, had failed to discover our military attack plans before the blessed 11 September operation. They were unable to foil our attack. We ask,why then should you blame us, holding us accountable and putting us on trial? Blame yourselves and your failed intelligence apparatus and hold them accountable, not us. …

We ask you; who initiated the attacks on civilians? Who is attacking civilian objects? And who is causing grave bodily harm against civilians? Is it us, or is it you?

You are attacking us in Palestine and Lebanon by providing political, military, and economic support to the terrorist state of Israel, which in turn, is attacking unarmed innocent civilians. In addition, Israel attacks Palestinian and Lebanese civilian objects by bombing them and destroying them. Furthermore, Israel is causing grave bodily harm by using weapons that are forbidden internationally, such as: cluster bombs in Lebanon and the rubber and live ammunitions [sic] in Palestine and breaking bones of Palestinian children. Moreover, the Israeli criminal list is long and endless, against civilians in Lebanon and Palestine. …

… it was you who had wiped out two entire cities off the face of the earth and killed roughly half a million people in a few minutes and caused grave bodily harm by nuclear radiation? Did you forgetabout your nuclear bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? …

Also, you have violated all laws of war, and in particular, your treatment of Prisoners of War, in Afghanistan and Iraq. We are the best example of such violations and your “Black Sites” for torturing prisoners. This, and with your “Abu-Ghurayb” prison in Iraq. …

You have no values and ethics and no principles. You are a nation without a religion. …

America is the terrorist country number one in the world. Is has nuclear weapons of mass destruction, and the hydrogen bombs, and the biological weapons, and its ocean fleets are around the world, threatening countries’ security and safety and any country that is not subjected to its oppressed will. …

… you do not fight us face-to-face, man-to-man. But rather, you fight us from behind roadblocks, trenches, and warplanes, which are thousands of feet in the air. …

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2 Comments

  1. gillie28 on December 10, 2009 at 4:15 am

    This is why they should NOT be tried in a civilian court.  Or, perhaps we could oblige them and really do what they accuse us of: bomb the hell (literally and figuratively) out of the Afghan/Pakistan border. 



  2. donh on December 10, 2009 at 4:17 am

    So every bank robbery is the fault of the bank for not having better security cameras in the parking lot.  Note how the list of Israeli crimes is stated to be "endless". The KSM trial will be a trial  to convict Israel of war crimes even more so than George Bush. The trial risks provoking an outbreak of violance in the Holy Land, and for this abominable decision President Obama gets the Nobel Peace Prize.



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