BY TAYLOR MARSH
We’ll see how
long this lasts. It’s widely known that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was tortured.
The self-styled mastermind of the September 11 attacks and four co-defendants
sent a note to a military judge at Guantanamo on Monday saying they wanted
to confess and plead guilty.The judge said he would question the five, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,
the suspected planner of the September 11 attacks, to ensure that was their
wish.The judge, Army Col. Steven Henley, read from the note, which began: "We
all five have reached an agreement to request from the commission an immediate
hearing session in order to announce our confessions … with our earnest
desire in this regard without being under any kind of pressure, threat, intimidations
or promise from any party." [...]
Got legacy? Torture, for one.
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