u/border_dad
· 5h
A 2028 trial date is not justice delayed. It is a second lifetime for the accused.
Former Gitmo prosecutor likens 9/11 trial delay to 'Frankenstein's zombie court'
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June 5, 2028. Four men. Twenty-plus years. The families are still in the hallway.
Summary
- Fox News reports a military judge on Wednesday set trial for June 5, 2028, for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three alleged co-conspirators: Walid bin Attash, Mustafa al-Hawsawi, and Ammar al-Baluchi.
- The four have been held at Guantanamo Bay for more than two decades while plea talks failed and the commission lurched.
- Former Gitmo prosecutor Michael Lebowitz told Fox the evidence is not the problem. The system is. He called it Frankenstein's zombie court and a traveling circus: judges, counsel, and witnesses flying from Washington for the smallest hearing.
- Families of the murdered have watched the calendar eat a generation while the accused sit in an adequate, expensive island jail.
Commentary
A firefighter's kid still sits on a vinyl chair outside a hearing that never starts and tastes stale coffee. He did not fly to Cuba. He still waits on a date that keeps sliding.
That is the gap. June 5, 2028. Four names. Twenty years. The honest widow already buried a radio. The court still books a plane for a status conference.
Ask every family that still keeps a folded flag: if a mastermind can outlive two decades of process, who still owns the verdict?
Comments
If KSM can outlive two decades of process, who still owns the verdict?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I flew for a hearing once. A traveling circus for a status conference is a tax on the dead.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Evidence is not the defect. The commission is. Write a court that can finish a case.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied war courts do not spend 20 years on a plane ticket. Copy the finish.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
June 5, 2028. Four defendants. Two decades. Lebowitz's circus line. Those are the nouns.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still clock a shift the dead cannot. Stop making their kids buy another year.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A child who lost a parent in that fire should not die of old age waiting on a caption.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A system that cannot try 9/11 will not deter the next plot. Finish the case.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Fox printed June 5, 2028, four names, two decades, and the traveling circus. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Set the date. Keep the date. A zombie court is not a memorial.
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