Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/08/01/9-11-mastermind-khalid-sheikh-mohammed-gets-life-in-jail-under-plea-deal.html
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Is that the only picture of him that exists? After all these years, I’ve never seen any other picture of the guy.
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I’ve frequently seen him called the “Ron Jeremy terrorist” based on that photo.
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Well now I can’t unsee that…
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They quote one organization, “9/11 Justice” saying they are disgusted by the plea deals, but I wonder what another organization – “September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows” thinks. They were interviewed in the latest season of serial talking positively about plea deals as a way to actually bring an end to this, feeling that a proper trial was never going to happen.
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I was going to say the same thing! Don’t they have mug shots?
I kinda forgot we still had that guy. And that there was still a case around him? Jesus Christ, how long should that have taken? Pretty sure with almost anyone else I’d be upset over the miscarriage of justice. But in this specific circumstance, I can’t find the fucks to give.
Where will he serve out his time? Because honestly, Gitmo might be the safest place for him. I can not imagine him surviving in GenPop somewhere when they learn he did a 9/11. Even solitary somewhere else might not be safe.
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Just a clarification, he hasn’t been sentenced, and won’t be until probably next year:
The three men will still face a mini trial of sorts, but probably not before next year. At the military commissions, where they were charged, a judge accepts the plea, but a military jury must be empaneled to hear evidence, including testimony from victims of the attacks, and deliver a sentence. By that point, the judge has typically resolved litigation over what evidence can be used at the sentencing proceeding.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/us/politics/sept-11-guilty-plea.html
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Yes! I came to say exactly this.
“9/11 Justice” represents just a subset of the families. Others have wildly divergent perspectives - healthier ones, if you ask me.
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Details of the deal have not been announced,
Guess who…
So when are they going to release the details of the prisoner swap with Russia? How many people do we get versus them? Are we also paying them cash? Are they giving us cash (Please withdraw that question, because I’m sure the answer is NO)? Are we releasing murderers, killers, or thugs? Just curious because we never make good deals, at anything, but especially hostage swaps. Our “negotiators” are always an embarrassment to us! I got back many hostages, and gave the opposing Country NOTHING – and never any cash. To do so is bad precedent for the future. That’s the way it should be, or this situation will get worse and worse. They are extorting the United States of America. They’re calling the trade “complex” – That’s so nobody can figure out how bad it is!
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"A plea deal that spares the 9/11 plotters at Guantanamo the death penalty is probably the right thing to do, but the only authentic reaction to this news is immense sadness: about the attack itself, about how America lost its way in the aftermath and resorted to torture, about the use of extrajudicial means in contravention of the rule of law, about the Kafkaesque limbo in which the plotters have been held for more than two decades, and about how it ends with little in the way of real reckoning with ourselves over what we became. "
– Josh Marshall at TPM
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… no way Trump wrote that
not incoherent enough 
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Exactly. Something is afoot. Austin has been DS for ~3 years and must have known of the years-long negotiations even before his confirmation.
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Plea deal(s) withdrawn
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