9/11 Organizer To Be Tried In New York

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the “highest-value” suspect that America has rounded up yet in its war on terror(ism), will be tried in federal court in New York City along with four other 9/11 suspects – a decision that will afford him and his fellow defendants the same rights that any U.S. citizen accused of a federal crime would receive.

According to the New York Times, this controversial decision will be announced Friday by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

Frankly, this as a miscarriage of justice – and the trial hasn’t even begun.

Mohammed is an enemy combatant whose alleged crimes killed thousands of civilians.  This is not some securities fraud case, people.  And from our vantage point, the only reason Mohammed should be taken to New York at this point is for a public lynching.

Seriously, what right do terrorist masterminds have to American justice?

Tim McVeigh, for example, had every right as an American to avail himself of the American court system – because he was an American citizen.  Mohammed is not, and accordingly does not have that right.

Also, assuming the mainstream media gets its way,  Holder’s decision ensures that the trial will become a referendum on America’s interrogation-gathering methods – not the bloody, savage effectiveness of the asymmetrical warfare Mohammed and his al Qaeda co-conspirators wrought on this nation.

Seriously, these “people” should be strapped to cruise missiles and fired into their homelands as a warning to the others.

“They’ll like us when we win,” ya know?

Of course, Mohammed’s trial isn’t the only news coming out of President Barack Obama’s Department of “Justice.”

In a curious contradiction, Holder has reportedly decided to let the military try Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri – the alleged mastermind of the U.S.S. Cole bombing in 2000 – before a military tribunal.

Some say Obama is only agreeing to try al-Nashiri before a military tribunal because the U.S. government – under President George W. Bush – spent tens of millions of dollars building a new military courtroom at its base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

And obviously, taxpayers are more than a little pissed off about their money being wasted these days …

EDITOR’S NOTE: The photograph above was taken by journalist Bill Biggart – one of the thousands of Americans who lost their lives in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.  Please take a minute to view his final pictures by clicking here.

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