My latest in PJ Media:
For those of you who weren’t yet born on September 11, 2001, on that day Islamic jihadis killed nearly 3,000 Americans in attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. A fourth plane was set to murder even more people by crashing into another landmark in Washington, but it was downed in Pennsylvania by its passengers in order to thwart the jihadis’ plans. Even those who don’t remember the day have probably learned about it in school, but few people are aware of the fact that the surviving plotters have not yet been brought to trial.
That is now set to change on January 11, 2021, the day that Air Force Colonel W. Shane Cohen has just set the trial to begin at Camp Justice, at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba.
Why has it taken nearly twenty years for these jihadis to face justice? Largely because of Barack Obama.
The trial will take place nearly nine years after the plotters – Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Walid bin Attash, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Ammar al-Baluchi, and Mustafa al-Hawsawi – were arraigned. The Daily Mail reported that “Cohen’s announcement marks the first time that a trial judge in the case actually established a date. Prosecutors had tried to get the ball rolling with two previous judges after the 2012 arraignment.”
The trial will also begin nearly twelve years after Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and the others for all intents and purposes admitted their role in the 9/11 jihad attacks, penning a lengthy Islamic defense for their actions in which they never denied plotting the hijacking of planes in order to commit mass murder of American civilians, but justified their actions by claiming that the U.S. was the greater terrorist. They signed the document “the 9/11 Shura Council.”
This was not a document obtained under torture, but a closely reasoned explanation of why the 9/11 attacks were justified from the standpoint of Islamic doctrine and belief….
There is much more. Read the rest here.
Spiro says
Of course Obama delayed it
He simpathy is with Muslims as we tend to forget his past
and the voters sold out to the P C crowd after all they didn’t wanted to be labeled ( pick one from their list of names)
Unless we return to our past Christian values we will continue the slide we are on
Like one of the ceasers said “give them circus and bread and you can do anything you want ” so does this country have what it takes to change course ???
Gus Gone says
Judaeo christian vales for sure. The belief system and dogma, not so much. One does not need to believe to understand the values and behave accordingly. .
J D S says
@ Spiro and Gus…You are both correct…..The only, repeat ONLY way we can save ourselves is to return to “MY TIME” my time meaning when the sane world was Christian and those who were not Christian respected Christian values…We have slipped, on the slippery slope of islam,so far, that it is DOUBTFUL that we can return to our once Christian life. What really hurts is the FACT that we are being. attacked without the proverbial “SHOT” being fired…if someone attacked us with an army we would retaliate …well we are being attacked with an army.
mortimer says
What an evil-looking man. A heartless, smug, supremacist murderer. A sociopath.
CRUSADER says
Probably how Jihadists see our strangely-orange freedom-fighter:
The Trumpster.
mortimer says
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed looks like what he is: an Islamic Rasputin on steroids … a cold-hearted killer.
Jaladhi says
This evil looking man would like to go hooriland as soon as possible. US should help him achieve his aim! Ha, ha,…
Infidel says
If it’s a 2021, let’s hope that a President Warren or a Sanders or a Harris doesn’t repeat what President Obama did wrt these Jihadists
gravenimage says
Yes–always a concern.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
20 yrs to bring an unrepentant Jihad mass murder to justice. Note here that Obama’s popularity is still high, while it was a mystery why he was ever popular in the first place. And as a former president he’s openly meddling in current affairs.
Looking at the corruption of the Obama administration even down to using police and intelligence to help rig an election, and now to thwart a president, one wonders whether he ever be brought to justice. They’ve got an out if he is, upon his conviction he could be sent back to either of his two countries instead of having to set a precedent of putting an ex-president into prison.
LB says
There’s no mystery to why he was, and still continues to be popular. HE’S BLACK. That’s enough to make the leftists worship him regardless of his policies, even if he had caused a nuclear war. He’s black therefore he is an oppressed victim of racism and he can never do harm, unlike those eeeeevil, racist, slave-trading, genocidal white people!
This is called leftist identity politics, where a person is judged not according to their actions and character, but according to their race, gender, sexual and religious orientation, etc.
gravenimage says
If Colin Powell or Condaleeza Rice had been president, I doubt they’d be free of criticism from the Left.
Lookmann2 says
Why special courts were not set up to try a crime of such mammoth proportion?
It makes civilised world’s legal system a laughing stock in the eyes of terrorists.
In comparison , Mumbai terror attack verdict given & confirmed by India’s SC within 4 years.
Normally, Indian courts take decades to decide on civil cases which the Judiciary blames on insufficient no of Judges.
Westman says
Imagine the Nuremberg Trials delayed by 20 years. These jihadis should have been tried and some hung by 2003. Even Americans can’t get anything but a greatly delayed trial unless it’s big news.
9/11 Family Member says
9/11 families and survivors are familiar with the antics of Barack Obama. For years I was a fan of this president. Then I observed him bowing to King Abdullah, and making other shocking gestures of obsequiousness to Saudi Arabia, the principal architect and main participant in the murderous attacks of 9/11. I should not have been shocked, but I was, to observe our illustrious president’s opposition to our Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA). The Congress and Senate were able to override his ignominious veto, at last.
Obama’s loyalty seems to lie in peculiar places —Saudi Arabia, Indonesia—and not with the United States of America. What a treacherous disappointment this admirer of Islam has been.
GreekEmpress says
9/11 Family Member,
Please accept much belated condolences on the loss of your loved one. I know it’s something you never get over.
gravenimage says
Awful–this compounds the terrible loss.
Angemon says
This sounds like a possibly controversial trial – no wonder Obama kicked the can down the road…
Eric Jones says
Before the 2008 election I warned people that Obama was a Wall St. puppet. After watching how he destroyed Libya I asked myself if we had a jihadi in the White House. Bring all jihadist to trial and a quick execution. I long for the day when all of the crimes and low life behaviors of Obama is fully revealed to the public.
Eric
Rueben_Singh says
I read an interview once, with a journalist/intelligence officer, who interviewed the red bearded beast.
What the beast said to him was words to the effect “we don’t have to militarily defeat the west, we just have to keep fighting until you lose the will to resist”
Let those words sink in.
Westman says
I can see that happening to France, Germany, Sweden, and Denmark – not the US. Islam is only 1% of the population there and being resisted while the evidence of it’s true nature is spreading. That the tolerance, in the US, for Islam is declining is evident in every new poll and every comment section on stories of Muslim jihad. Certain members of Congress are making it worse while CAIR foolishly associates with them. We can only hope these immature motor-mouths continue.
Lilith Wept says
That’s already happening….in a way.
It’s not that the Liberal leftists, Democrat, socialist have lost the will to resist. It’s that they reject that there is a NEED to resist Islam.
They either believe that Islam is a religion of peace , or they think that they can use Islam and moslems to achieve their agenda ( and then live in peace with Islam when they get what they want, or be able to discard it or somehow control it)
Or they genuinely just don’t give a damn if Islam destroys the West …..as long as they get what they want now.
And somehow I can’t help but think, considering some of the things politicians have been caught doing….if those corrupt politicians don’t admire Islam. Decent people are appalled and disgusted by the things Islam permits its followers to do…… But people who are corrupt, would be able to see that under Islam, they would be allowed to do many things that are illegal right now.
IMO, our politicians are not understanding that Islam is NOT “just another religion” ….like the many other religions that have come to America and assimilated .
When our politicians acknowledge that Islam is a political ideology and treat it as the danger that it is then we will be taking the first step towards fighting Islam.
Right now we aren’t fighting against Islam, we are appeasing and pandering g to Islam.
And we are slowly loosing our freedom of speech in the process. This Islamic invasion of America is denying American citizens their Constitutional,rights, something that no declared enemy of America has been able to do since we became a nation.
We can’t even get a resolution passed to acknowledge that the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization! The MB is considered a terrorist organization in many Moslem countries…..
Any attempt to even speak out against Islam, to simply tell the truth about what Islam teaches, and quote the Koran and Hadiths …, speakers are de platformed, censored, and called Racists, and islamophobes!
CAIR hounds and uses lawfare to harass anyone who speaks against Islam, to the point of getting them fired from not just one job but subsequent jobs!
Of course we know there’s much more than this……and it’s weakness! . Moslems see nearly every one of their demands met and so they demand more, like children they are pushing to see where the limits are , to see if there ARE any limits. I’m sure that moslems are wondering if there will ever be a point at which Americans will say “ Hell no! We know what Islam is, and we e had enough !” And take action to suit those words.
Gus Gone says
These animals should not have lived beyond their interrogation.
Mr. Cohen says
When will Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton
be placed on trial for violating American laws and
intentionally betraying the United States of America
by intentionally helping America’s worst enemies?
Why does it often seem to me that I am the only person
who remembers that traitor-in-chief Barack Hussein Obama
gave $150 BILLION to Iran – America’s worst enemy?
Let us take just one minute to understand how much money that was:
$150 x 1,000 = $150,000 = $150 thousand
$150,000 x 1,000 = $150,000,000 = $150 million
$150,000,000 x x 1,000 = $150,000,000,000 = $150 BILLION.
Wow! Wow!! Wow!!! Wow!!!! $150 BILLION!!!!
Do you realize how many Americans could have been
helped by $150 BILLION, if only that money had been
given to Americans, instead of America’s worst enemies?
And the so-called “news media” DOES NOT CARE,
because they always loved Obama, and always will.
Last but not least, it is not enough to remember the names
of the innocent civilians who were murdered in the
World Trade Center — we must also remember the names
of the terrorists, which countries the terrorist came from,
which language they spoke, and which religion they believed.
CRUSADER says
Works out to approximately $100 per Muslim in the world.
Do you realize how many get this figure wrong?
Many radio show hosts replace Million for Billion.
duh swami says
It was really nice of the guards or warden to provide him with enough henna to turn that ,ass of hair red…
gravenimage says
Yes, Swami–why are they providing him with henna? This is not just hair dye (not that I think prisoners should be given hair dye, either), but henna in this context is used by older Muslim men to fool their enemies into think they are younger and more dangerous. The “Prophet” himself did this.
Of course, I just think he looks like an orange clown, but that is a separate issue.
Walter Sieruk says
That al Qaeda jihadist who “mastermind” of the September 11, 2001 those jihad mass murder attacks, Khalid Sheik Mohammad , had confidently declared “We will win because Americans don’t realize …we do not need to defeat you militarily; we only need to fight long enough for you to defeat yourself by quitting.” That arrogant boast of by KSM should serve as a reminder that we, as Americans, need to and should stand firm ,with great fortitude, in this War of Idea’s and struggle against the jihadist who are always busy scheming to engage in mad Islamic quest by the means of the stealth jihad and the violent jihad violent . In other words, the jihadists means the conquest for supreme power and control of Islam over the West,, either by hook or by crook.
Therefore ,all good Americans should maintain a strong vigilant fortitude against Islamic strategies , savagely and tyranny. As Thomas Jefferson had, so well, explained “Fortitude…teaches us to meet and surmount difficulties; not to fly from them.”
Furthermore, there are still other jihadist chiefs around as on the loose ,as KSM, who are engaged in Islamic scheming to have their jihadist /stooges future Islamic terrorist attack against Americans and America.. Therefore , we ,as Americans , should not live in fear or be afraid to go to difference place and do different things ,yet even though we should feel no fear we should keep aware of our surrounding and be alert for anything that seems not to look quite right. As in “What’s wrong with this picture?” Then if something questionable is seen then it’s important to go and tell the right person about it. As example, In NY.NY a tee-shirt vendor saw some smoke come out of a parked van and so he went and informed as police officer about it. As it has been said “If you see something, say something.” To put this in another way, the wise words of Thomas Jefferson apply more now more than those words of wisdom did in his own time. For Mr. Jefferson declared “Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.”
gravenimage says
Delayed by Obama, Trial of 9/11 Plotters Finally Set for 2021
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Justice delayed is justice denied.