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Bob Orr is a correspondent for CBS News based in Washington.

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You can pick your own word: bizarre … eerie … creepy. I settled on surreal.

There he was sitting about 50 feet from me: the man who claims he planned 9/11 from A to Z. But, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, or KSM as the terror-crowd prefers, looked nothing like that almost comic image that’s been burned into my brain.

You know the one.

The pudgy disheveled man, who looks a little like John Belushi on a bad night, with a redneck white T-shirt and his hair sprouting all over the place.

No, the Mohammed who appeared today was dressed like a spiritual advisor with a long white tunic, neatly wrapped white turban, reading glasses, and a flowing gray beard that would have made Stonewall Jackson jealous.

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Robert Hendin is a CBS News producer in Washington who covers the Department of Justice.

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The flight to Guantanamo Bay is in a word, long. Sitting side by side in web seats in the middle of a C-130 cargo plane for more than five hours was an adventure in itself. After arriving and getting an ID badge, the group of 60 or so journalists boarded buses, which were then driven to a ferry for a short ride across the bay.

The bay itself is beautiful. Rolling hills frame the clear blue waters on all sides. Guard posts and American flags dot the landscape. After arriving at the other side of the base, we made our way to an old airplane hangar that is serving as the media center.

From here, most of us will watch tomorrow’s historic hearing. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men will be formally charged with the conspiracy of 9/11 – that they conceived it, planned it, trained the hijackers, helped the 19 hijackers getting into the United States and sent them money to carry our the attacks that killed 2,973 people. They could face the death penalty.

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Robert Hendin is a CBS News producer in Washington who covers the Department of Justice.

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The flight to Guantanamo Bay is in a word, long. Sitting side by side in web seats in the middle of a C-130 cargo plane for more than five hours was an adventure in itself. After arriving and getting an ID badge, the group of 60 or so journalists boarded buses, which were then driven to a ferry for a short ride across the bay.

The bay itself is beautiful. Rolling hills frame the clear blue waters on all sides. Guard posts and American flags dot the landscape. After arriving at the other side of the base, we made our way to an old airplane hangar that is serving as the media center.

From here, most of us will watch tomorrow’s historic hearing. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men will be formally charged with the conspiracy of 9/11 – that they conceived it, planned it, trained the hijackers, helped the 19 hijackers getting into the United States and sent them money to carry our the attacks that killed 2,973 people. They could face the death penalty.

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