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...tenure winds down, the Administration clearly hopes that legal proceedings begun last week against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators will offer a public demonstration that the alleged principal planners of the 9/11 attacks are finally being brought to justice. But their arraignment at Guantanamo on Thursday suggested that the political overtones of the case could call that effort into question and overshadow strictly legal aspects of the trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gitmo Trials: The Political Agenda | 6/8/2008 | See Source »

...political trial. At the apparent direction of Mohammed, confessed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, the accused have also told the court they will represent themselves, albeit with some assistance from professional military and civilian lawyers. Mohammed, who repeatedly appeared to give courtroom instructions to his co-accused on Thursday, explained that he rejects the authority of the U.S. legal system and instead follows "God's law." He also said he welcomes a death penalty in order to "martyr" himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gitmo Trials: The Political Agenda | 6/8/2008 | See Source »

...Over those five speeches (along with some other public pronouncements), the Bush team laid out their case for invading Iraq. Thursday's Senate report compared those statements to hundreds of intelligence reports and concluded the following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skimmer: Senate Report on Prewar Intelligence | 6/6/2008 | See Source »

Confessed terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told U.S. military judge Ralph Kohlman on Thursday that he would represent himself at his tribunal, and that he welcomed the death penalty that would make him a "martyr." But Mohammed was clearly taking advantage of the opportunities offered by his arraignment in a heavily guarded, high-tech courtroom at Guantanamo on charges of helping to murder nearly 3,000 people in the 9/11 attacks. For one thing, his courtroom appearance offered him his first chance in five years of near-total isolation to communicate with his four co-accused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alleged 9/11 Plotter Holds Court | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...five defendants will be asked to enter pleas as part of the arraignment, which is showcasing the Bush Administration's plan to try some 70 of the 270 detainees at Guantanamo by military commission. Sixty print and television reporters were flown to Cuba on a military plane to cover Thursday's arraignment. Strict rules are in effect to protect classified information divulged in the new, $12 million courtroom equipped with multiple television cameras, some of which feed video to outside observers, while others monitor the defendants for security reasons. No one in the court is armed, but burly uniformed guards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alleged 9/11 Plotter Holds Court | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

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