The trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is to be held
 

...by a court in New York city...in place of a trial by Military Tribunal. The stupidity of this is almost beyond belief.

I agree. Is there any trial needed really?

Actually there isn't. Legally we can hold him withour any kind of a trial until the war on "terror" is won and that will be when hell freezes over.

this guy is only 45 years old? sure looks old for his age, maybe his real identity is an alias as well (it says he has over 50 aliases)

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Um you are aware Obama already declared the war on terror over. He agreed with most people with a brain and figured out we can not have a war on a tactic.

We as a country are also supposed to be better than that. We used to take the moral high ground. I am beyond glad that they are getting a trial. I also do feel that the numerous water boarding incidents should be allowed into the trial.

As for the location of the trial, I find it fine. It is close to where it all happened. It is a place that they have tried other terrorists before, and if people are worried about security or something then they should have many other concerns.

You know I can not even believe if you really were a soldier and a defender of the US, let alone a supposed decorated one you would even utter that shit about holding someone in a perpetual loophole that we all know is not right, even if it is technically legal. Especially since after they installed the laws after 9/11 they can kidnap any of us and do the fucking same, because it is legal.

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I put "terror" in quotes and I also put "terrorist" in quotes...and always try to remember to remember to do so as I do not like the terminology and I do not think it is applicable. In every war POW's are held for the duration of the war. We have an enemy and we declared war on that enemy and although he has been declared to be an "enemy combatant" he is techically a POW and can and should be held until the "enemy combatants" are defeated and that will be when hell freezes over.

BTW...believe what you like...as I personally do not give a damn...sport.

Here is the potential problem with that. Do we really know who the combatants are? Sure we can say Al Qaede and in some cases we can prove it, but when will we know we have all of Al Qaude taken down? We will never have them all taken out so we could hold these people forever. If we are fighting another country, we can easily identify the combatants and we can have cealr cut conditions of victory. When we grab these guys and hold them forever without a trial all it does is fuel the hatred towards us. At least this is step in the direction of clearing up why we are holding these guys.

Most wars are military type encounters. This war against terrorism is one part military fight and one part political fight and one part morality conflict. We can't just grab people, hold them forever and expect to win the moral part of the war, we have to prove to the world that we are right and just and the good guys.

What are the chances of this being aired on live TV?

I really do not have a problem with giving them a trial although legally we do not have to but it should be by Military Tribunal and never should they be tried in our civilian courts. Civilian courts should be for criminals and not "enemy combatants". Enemy combatants are in essence soldiers and should be treated and tried as such.

Zero to none...as it will be in Federal Court.

I can't argue with that.

total load bollocks dont be fooled by this, its getting really boring now the sheeple still think so called muslim terrorists were behind 9/11.

9/11 was an inside job, what they call False Flag attack by people in the Gov. Do some research the 9/11 media story is getting old. Wake up to the New World Order/illuminati

For once you will have the entire board agree with you on something.

I don't understand how all of this time, they treat him and torture those guys like terrorists, yet want to treat them as civilians when judgment day comes. I don't get it.

The USA is too soft on this shit now. They need to strike down on REAL terrorists in a godly fucking firestorm. I'm talking scorched earth!

Apparently not.