Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 9/11
Should this low life be granted his wish to become a martyr by facing execution......or should he rot in prison?"Terror defendants are all desperate to be 'martyrs'The self-styled mastermind of the 9/11 attacks said yesterday he wants to plead guilty.Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who claims he planned the atrocity "from A to Z", and four co-defendants made the request in a note to a judge.It read: "We all five request an immediate hearing to announce our confessions... without being under any kind of pressure, threat or intimidation."If their guilty pleas were accepted the men would certainly face the death penalty.Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was a member of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization, although he lived in Kuwait rather than Afghanistan, heading al-Qaeda's propaganda operations from sometime around 1999. According to the 9/11 Commission Report he was "the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks". He is also thought to have had, or has confessed to, a role in many of the most significant terrorist plots over the last twenty years, including the World Trade Center 1993 bombings, the Operation Bojinka plot, an aborted 2002 attack on Los Angeles' U.S. Bank Tower, the Bali nightclub bombings, the failed bombing of American Airlines Flight 63, the Millennium Plot, and the murder of Daniel Pearl.
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