9/11 Commission member calls for KSM to be tried

[KJF]

In the wake of the Moussaoui trial, former 9/11 Commission member Tim Roemer has called on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to be tried. It was on CNN:

ROEMER: ... And, lastly, and maybe one of the most important outcomes of this, Wolf, is, we need to make sure that, if the justice system functioned today, it should also work for KSM, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who was captured by America, who we have, who took the plot to Osama bin Laden. He should be the next one up for trial.

BLITZER: You want him be -- to be tried here in the United States?

ROEMER: I don't know precisely the best way, the best venue. But he should be tried. Here is the person that was responsible for 3,000 people dying.

He is the one who took this plane's operation, originally with 10 planes, five on the East Coast, five on the West Coast, to Osama bin Laden. We know where he is. We have detained him. We have interrogated him. We have had him for over three years.

I think it's time for him to go through some form of justice and be a face to the world about what 9/11 was about.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0605/03/sitroom.01.html

I'm all for it, think of all that stuff we'd get from it (maybe even that elusive Pentagon video!). However, lengthy descriptions of waterboarding might be a little embarassing to the prosecution, so I'm not couting my chickens yet. Let's hope Roemer's expressing some sort of consensus, not just pissing in the wind.

[seatnineb]

1. You are kidding?

In the words of the honorable Keven Fenton:
I'm all for it, think of all that stuff we'd get from it (maybe even that elusive Pentagon video!).

Really?

I guess the Pentagon video will be withheld from the public throughout the Khalid Sheik Mohammed trial too......

And after that we will probably have the trial of Ramzi Binalshib......and the Pentagon video will linger in the vaults even longer.

And after that...who knows...maybe the trial of Bin Laden himself who will be magically caught just as the Binalshib trial comes to an end!.

We could be talking in terms of decades here,...think about it...the Moussoui trial itself took nearly 1/2 a decade!

At times I think these trials have been invented for the sole purpose of witholding those Pentagon videos.

By that point the CGI artists may be up to the task of actually rendering a 757 onto that Pentagon footage...and making it look believable....something they failed to do with regards to the Second plane that hit WTC2.....

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Go for it

Bring KSM to the US and try him.

BushCo will never allow that. KSM is too tied in to the Saudis and the US support of bin Ladin and alCIAda. KSM knows way too much.

[KJF]

3. He probably does know way to much, but...

... would he really mention the CIA was funding and helping radical Islamist movements after the Afghan war, for example in Bosnia? I doubt it. I guess he can be relied on to keep quiet about some of it in his own interests. But whether he'd keep quiet about all of it (like having his head stuck in a bucket of water repeatedly for long periods of time) is another matter. My feeling watching Roemer was that he wasn't really aware of what KSM knew - what does that say about the 9/11 Commission?

Maybe momentum will gather and we'll get it, maybe the whole KSM trial idea will disappear very quickly. We'll see. I was amazed to hear the idea even once.