[lbo-talk] Key 9/11 suspect 'admits guilt'

[Bill Bartlett]

At 10:57 AM -0400 15/3/07, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6452573.stm
>
>[WS:]  What do others think about it?  To me, it looks so frigging lame that
>I find it hard to believe that anyone with a half a brain in the US
>government would fabricate such crap.  No wonder that the BBC put quotation
>marks around the phrase admits guilt.  But then, one never knows.  The
>arrogance cum stupidity is abound in the US ruling elite.
>
>My take on it is that the guy probably decided that he has better chances by
>moving to the limelight than staying in obscurity and is feeding the morons
>what they want to hear.  Just think about it, if he goes to a trial he can
>use that to broadcast about his and his comrades plight at Gitmo and further
>embarrass the Bush administration - which I would be delighted to see.
>
>Any thoughts?

Now that he's "confessed" to masterminding practically every 
terrorist attack in recent memory and many more plots that never 
happened, he will come in handy as a witness for the prosecution of 
every other person being held prisoner in Guantonamo Bay. His 
evidence wouldn't be worth a pinch of shit it a real court, but it is 
good enough for the proposed kangaroo courts.

So this statement of his is not about prosecuting him, they probably 
have enough real evidence to prosecute him anyhow. (Although a real 
court might take a dim view of him being tortured for years in a 
secret prison, so they probably won't even bother with a prosecution.)

But there isn't any real evidence against many of the people being 
held at Guantonamo like that Al Jazeera cameraman, 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Al_Hajj. They need to make some up. 
That's apparently what this is all about. Pretty scary, but it isn't 
politically correct to call them Nazis... so I won't do that.

Bill Bartlett
Bracknell Tas