por admin » Lun Abr 04, 2011 1:41 pm
Un triunfo pra el gobierno de Bush y los republicanos.
Obama no tuvo mas remedio que retroceder.
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Los terroristas que planearon el ataque del 9/11 enfrentaran jucio militar en Guantanamo no juicios civiles en New York como queria Obama. Aleluya!!
Realmente la propuesta de Obama era una bofetada a una ciudad que ya ha sido muy castigada.
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9/11 Suspects to Face Military Trial at Guantanamo
By EVAN PEREZ
Associated Press
At left a March 2003 photo shows Khalid Sheikh Mohammed shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan. At right, a 2009 photo purporting to show Mr. Mohammed.
.WASHINGTON—Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other alleged plotters held in connection with the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks will face military trial at Guantanamo Bay, the Justice Department said, officially reversing previous plans for a civilian trial in New York City.
Attorney General Eric Holder Monday said that the Justice Department is issuing referrals for the Defense Department to hold military trials for the five alleged plotters.
A federal judge in New York on Monday unsealed a 2009 indictment against the five alleged conspirators, which charged them with 10 terrorism-related counts, and at the same time issued an order dismissing the indictment.
A filing by federal prosectors, requesting the dismissal, cited the opposition to civilian trials.
"Both the public generally, and the victims of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and their families specifically, have a strong interest in seeing the defendants prosecuted in some forum. Because a timely prosecution in federal court does not appear feasible, the attorney general intends to refer this matter to the Department of Defense to proceed in military commissions," the filing said.
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.Also: Read the 2009 indictment
.Along with Mr. Mohammed, the others accused are: Walid bin Attash, Ramzi bin al Shibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Mustafa al Hawsawi.
Sen. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) said, "While not unexpected, this is the final nail in the coffin of that wrong-headed idea. I have always said that the perpetrators of this horrible crime should get the ultimate penalty, and I believe this proposal by the administration can make that happen."
Mr. Holder first disclosed plans for civilian trials in November 2009, but faced a backlash from New York residents, who raised security concerns, and later from members of Congress, who placed restrictions on moving any Guantanamo prisoner to the U.S. for trial.
Administration officials for more than a year have said the 9/11-trial decision would be reversed, given the public opposition.
The move marks another step back on Guantanamo for the administration. In one of President Barack Obama's first acts in office, he said would close the Guantanamo prison by January 2010, a plan that faltered amid growing political opposition.
Administration officials describe the decision to move ahead with the 9/11 trials as an effort to bring long-delayed justice a decade after attacks. Family members of the nearly 3,000 victims in the attacks have criticized both the Bush and Obama administrations for not proceeding with the trials.
Mr. Mohammed has claimed responsibility for planning the attacks.
Still, the trials are likely to raise thorny issues for the U.S. The accused have been held for years without trial, and some were subjected to harsh interrogations, including the use of waterboarding, a technique that simulates drowning. Messrs. Obama and Holder have called waterboarding torture.
Mr. Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times according to an internal Central Intelligence Agency probe. He has claimed any information he gave to interrogators was caused by torture. Mr. Mohammed has rejected the legitimacy of U.S. military commission trials.
Military tribunals are overseen by military judges and lawyers, and differ from civilian trials in the rules on evidence. For instance, military commissions allow the government greater latitude to use hearsay evidence than civilian trials do.
The Obama administration pushed through changes to the military trials, banning the use of coerced evidence, bringing them closer to the rules used in civilian proceedings.
