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

[Americanhero1]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Five men charged in the Sept. 11 attacks mock U.S. authorities and proclaim themselves "terrorists to the bone" in a war crimes court filing released Tuesday.

The five Guantanamo prisoners use the six-page document to try to justify the killing of nearly 3,000 people, portraying the attack as a response to U.S. actions in Israel, Iraq and elsewhere that is supported by their Muslim faith.

"We fight you over defending Muslims, their land, their holy sites, and their religion as a whole," they write in the document, which was submitted to the Guantanamo war crimes court and released by the Pentagon, in English, over the objections of attorneys for two of the men.

The five had previously said they wanted to plead guilty to the charges against them, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind, had expressed pride in the attacks. But this is their most detailed response yet.

All five were charged with murder and other crimes at the Guantanamo war crimes court, which was suspended by President Barack Obama in January while his administration considers new strategies for prosecuting terrorists.

The charges, which carry a potential death sentence, "are badges of honor, which we carry with pride," they write.

The charge of conspiracy is "laughable," they write, because the planning was intended to be secret.

"Your intelligence apparatus, with all its abilities ... failed to discover our military attack plans before the blessed 11 September operation ... Why then should you blame us, holding us accountable and putting us on trial?"

They criticize the U.S. for fighting "from behind roadblocks, trenches and warplanes" rather than face-to-face and describe Islam as "a religion of fear" for Jews, Christians and pagans.

"We are terrorists to the bone. So, many thanks to God," they write.

Obama has ordered the closure of Guantanamo, so if and when the trials resume, they will be held somewhere else and most likely under a different legal system than the widely criticized military commissions created by Congress and President George W. Bush.

Three of the men are acting as their own lawyers but two of the men, Ramzi Binalshibh and Mustafa al-Hawsawi, still have Pentagon-appointed military attorneys pending a court ruling on whether they are mentally competent to represent themselves.

Their lawyers, Army Maj. Jon Jackson and Navy Cmdr. Suzanne Lachelier, said they had not met with their clients to discuss the document and cannot say what may have motivated the men to sign it — or even vouch for its authenticity.

"Based on our review of the unsigned, English and typed document there is no evidence that either Mr. Binalshibh or Mr. al-Hawsawi knew about, read, or signed this document," they said in a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press.

Pentagon spokesman Jeffrey Gordon called the filing "merely another attempt by these detainees to garner publicity."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090310/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_guantanamo_sept11_trial

[ag337]

And Obama wants to close Gitmo.

These terrorists are laughing at the U.S.Government and Obama doesn't want to torture them and he wants them treated humanely.  Obama is really a dangerous man.

I really do believe that Obama is determined to destroy America.  There can be no other explanation as to why he supports terrorists through closing Gitmo and pledging 900 million to the people of Gaza to relocate in the U.S.A..

[arksis]

This article alone should wake people to what these quoranimals are REALLY like! I've never seen so many blind people in one country to terrorism. 

[New Yorker]

They should be slowly publicly executed so that all the world can see; After, their corpses fed to pigs, televised on all the networks, let them all see, that Islamic terrorists will not be martyrs, they will not be buried by Islamic law, they will be turned into PIG SH*T.

[zachor_ve_kavod]

The story will be buried.  It flies in the face of every Leftist claim.

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

These are the pigs that Obama, and sadly most Americans, want to extend an "olive branch" to. Frankly I don't care if brainwashed Obama-worshippers are the victims of terror acts, but unfortunately they are seldom the only casualties.

[AsheDina]

I HOPE THE KING HUSSEIN CROAKS

[Spiraling Leopard]

I have read this story some time ago:

In around 1900 or so some muslims tried some terrorist attack. They got caught and one segeant lined them up, dipped some bullets in pigsblood in front of their faces and then shot all but one. The one that didnt get shot was then send back to the middle east where he could tell what happened to them, so ensuring they wouldn't try anything else for a long time. They believe if they get shot with pigsblood like that, they won't go to heaven.

[arksis]

I have read this story some time ago:

In around 1900 or so some muslims tried some terrorist attack. They got caught and one segeant lined them up, dipped some bullets in pigsblood in front of their faces and then shot all but one. The one that didnt get shot was then send back to the middle east where he could tell what happened to them, so ensuring they wouldn't try anything else for a long time. They believe if they get shot with pigsblood like that, they won't go to heaven.

During the first Gulf War I kept saying our troops should have done this!