Holder raises question on Sept. 11 death penalty

[Johnny Bravo]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100711/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_holder_terrorism



  By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer Pete Yost, Associated Press Writer   – 56 mins ago

WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder says there's a real question about whether a terrorist suspect such as self-professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed can face the death penalty if he were to plead guilty before a military commission.

Holder proposed last year trying Mohammed and four alleged accomplices in civilian courts in New York City. But that idea generated so much controversy that it's all but been abandoned.

He told CBS' "Face the Nation" that it's possible to impose the death penalty in a civilian setting for someone who pleads guilty. But he says there's far less legal certainty about that possibility in a military setting.

Since January, Holder has said that all options are on the table about where to try Mohammed and the four other terrorist suspects. That includes the possibility of having them go before a military commission in Guantanamo Bay, where they are now held.

Mohammed, who was captured in Pakistan in 2003, has proclaimed his involvement in the Sept. 11 plot and has said he wants to plead guilty and be executed, achieving what he views as martyrdom.

Holder said the Obama administration is working through issues about a site for the proceedings, taking into account the need for Congress to approve funding and trying to address concerns expressed by local officials.

"As soon as we can" resolve those issues, "we will make a decision as to where that trial will occur," Holder said.

He said "the politicization of this issue, when we're dealing with ultimate national security issues, is something that disturbs me a great deal."

The attorney general said it is his hope that Congress provides money to move Guantanamo detainees to a new location in Thomson, Ill., where an underused state prison now exists.

"There is no reason to believe that people held in Guantanamo cannot be held wherever we put them in the United States. Again, very safely and very effectively," Holder said.

The need for congressional approval of the money for the project stands in the way of doing so, with Republicans and some Democrats objecting to bringing those prisoners into the United States.

[m25operator]

An underused prison in IL. Please.

[tombogan03884]

Some lawyers only handle Mob cases, this scum bag specializes in getting deals for Terrorists.
Remember those Puerto Rican's when BJ left office ?

[sledgemeister]

Wjy are they still piss farting about with these animals? Surely they can fly them to a new location and have the plane crash, or drive them some where near a cliff?

[Solus]

It would be better if they were discovered dead in their cells having choked on loin chops and pulled pork sandwiches.

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[Johnny Bravo]

It is disgraceful these POS are still breathing. They should have been hung years ago. We'll be paying for these murderers protection long after Odamna is voted out of office if Holder has anything to do with it.

[twyacht]

Holder's priorities are not the terrorists, it is going after AZ.

Eventually, these fumbling buffoons will come up with something.

I prefer the Navy Terrorist Rehab Program.

[bulldog75]

First we dip the tip of the bullets that they are to be shot with in pigs blood and then dump pigs blood all over them before we shoot them. Put this on youtube and CNN and all the other news outlets and bury them with a pig and see how many will try us again.

Have we thought of telling the rag heads that we dip our bullet tips with pigs blood they may think twice about messing with us. They consider that unclean and they get a fast track to hell.