Let’s bring KSM to trial

You’ve got to hand it to the Israelis, they really know how to get things done. We here in the US need to take a few notes. For instance, when they’re faced in their Occupied Territories of the West Bank with the kind of problems we face in ours in Iraq, they have no problem with massacres, as in Jenin, or with shooting schoolchildren. And as for large-scale population problems, why aren’t we blanketing the Sunni triangle with cluster bombs, like the Israelis did in South Lebanon?

But what the Israelis really excel at is bringing war criminals to justice, like for instance, Adolph Eichmann. With brazen disregard for the sovereignty of Argentina, Eichmann was kidnapped there by Mossad agents in 1960, and brought back to Jerusalem to stand trial for his part in transporting Jews to the concentration camps in World War II.

Eichmann’s trial was telecast worldwide. After fourteen weeks of testimony, with more than 1,500 documents, 100 prosecution witnesses, and dozens of defense depositions delivered by diplomatic couriers from sixteen nations, Eichmann was found guilty, and was subsequently hanged.

That’s the ticket for Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who after four years of no doubt rather stressful interrogation has confessed to being the mastermind of 9/11, as well as many other crimes. Had we kept after it, he most likely would have confessed to have assassinated JFK as well, and possibly to being Jack the Ripper.

But be that as it may, it’s time for the whole story to come out. Bring KSM to New York, put him on trial. Let the world’s media watch. Of course, this would mean defense lawyers, who would get to cross-examine witnesses, look into the connections with the Pakistani ISI, and how KSM managed to get the air defenses to abandon all standard operating procedures on that day, and so on and on. The whole official government conspiracy theory would have to be defended in a court of law.

And why wouldn’t the United States jump at this chance to bring this criminal to justice, just as Israel did with Eichmann? Why hasn’t KSM been brought to the US? Why hasn’t he been allowed his day in court? Because there is a lot more to this story, and a lot more people involved, and those people don’t want this story to be told, and they are in positions to make sure it doesn’t get told.