9/11 Conspirators Refuse to Appear in Court

Fox news is reporting that in a bizarre moment, the three 9/11 conspirators who are acting as their own attorneys refused to come to court Monday. The prosecution says the men should be forced to attend, even forcibly extracted from their cells, but the judge declined to do so.

A military judge agreed Monday to another delay in the war crimes trial of five Guantanamo prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 attacks.

Army Col. Stephen Henley agreed to the U.S. government’s request for a 60-day continuance, a delay intended to give President Barack Obama’s administration enough time to decide whether it should move the case to a civilian court.

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Photos of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Appear Online

On Wednesday, Jarret Brachman, a former West Point terrorism expert who monitors jihadist Web sites, published images on his blog that appear to be the first photographs of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described planner of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.

Mr. Brachman, who was director of research at West Point’s Center for Combating Terrorism from 2004 to 2008, made this image available to The Lede and explained that the photographs were spotted last week on jihadist Web sites by a fellow “cyber monitor,” Leah Farrell.

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Techniques Worked – May Have Prevented Los Angeles Terror Attack

President Obama’s national intelligence director told colleagues in a private memo last week that the harsh interrogation techniques banned by the White House did produce significant information that helped the nation in its struggle with terrorists.

“High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa’ida organization that was attacking this country,” Adm. Dennis C. Blair, the intelligence director, wrote in a memo to his staff last Thursday.

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You ask how?

CIA Waterboarding Produced Intel That Stopped Attack on Los Angeles from Townhall.com

“Soon, you will know.”

That is the ominous statement an uncooperative Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, told his Central Intelligence Agency interrogators when they initially asked him, after he had been captured, about additional planned al-Qaida attacks on the United States.

In March 2003, KSM became the third and final terrorist ever waterboarded by the CIA. The other two were Abu Zubaydah and Rahim Al-Nashiri.

On Tuesday, the CIA confirmed to Terry Jeffrey at Townhall that it stands by assertions credited to the agency in z 2005 memo that subjecting KSM to “enhanced techniques” of interrogation including waterboarding  caused him to reveal information that allowed the U.S. government to stop a planned 9/11-style attack on Los Angeles.

The previously classified memo was released by President Obama last week.

Before they were waterboarded, both KSM and Abu Zubaydah did not believe Americans had the will to stop al-Qaida, the 2005 Justice Department memo says, citing information from the CIA.

“Both KSM and Zubaydah had ‘expressed their belief that the general U.S. population was ‘weak,’ lacked resilience and would be unable to ‘do what was necessary’ to prevent the terrorists from succeeding in their goals,’” said the memo. “Indeed, before the CIA used enhanced techniques in its interrogation of KSM, KSM resisted giving any answers to questions about future attacks, simply noting, ‘Soon, you will know.’”

After he was waterboarded, KSM provided the CIA with information that allowed the U.S. government to close down a terror cell already “tasked” with flying a jet into a building in Los Angeles.

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