9/11 Suspects "Terrorists To The Bone"

(CBS/ AP)  Five men charged with the Sept. 11 attacks say they "are terrorists to the bone" in their most detailed response to U.S. war crimes charges.

The five Guantanamo prisoners seek to justify the attack that killed nearly 3,000 people.

The five include self-proclaimed mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed. He has acknowledged responsibility in the past.

In an extraordinary six-page filing with the Military Commissions in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Mohammed and the others take full responsibility for the attacks and refute the nine accusations against them, point-by-point, reports CBS News correspondent Bob Orr.

The five men are charged with conspiracy. To that they respond, "This is a very laughable accusation. Were you expecting us to inform you about our secret attack plans?"

As for charges al Qaeda targeted civilians, they accuse the United States of "...attacking us in Palestine and Lebanon..." And they ask, "...was it not you that attacked an entire population in Iraq..."

They label themselves tortured prisoners, and chide the United States saying, "You have no values and ethics and no principals."

President Barack Obama suspended their trial in January as his administration evaluates the war crimes trials.

Meanwhile, alleged al Qaeda sleeper agent Ali al-Marri appeared in a U.S. court Tuesday to face terror charges for the first time after being held for more than five years as an enemy combatant.

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Islamic Response to U.S. Government Accusations

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Al-Marri is charged with providing material support to terror and conspiracy and is expected to be sent to Illinois to enter a plea. The government has said al-Marri met with Osama bin Laden and volunteered for a suicide mission or whatever help al Qaeda wanted. He arrived in the U.S. the day before terrorists struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Al Qaeda leaders wanted al-Marri, a computer specialist, to wreak havoc on the U.S. banking system and to serve as a liaison for other al Qaeda operatives, according to a court document filed by Jeffrey Rapp, a senior member of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the government has held two U.S. citizens - Louisiana native Yaser Hamdi and Jose Padilla of Chicago - and one legal resident, al-Marri, as enemy combatants. Hamdi was released in 2004 after the government said he no longer posed a threat to the United States and no longer had any intelligence value.

[honestabe8]

by the way, nancylou: thanks for showing me i could be more stupid. i could be like you. gash.

[honestabe8]

NancyLou: My comment was in response to guyfromtampa's comment that liberal morons who wanted gitmo closed should be put into cells with these folk. i asked what about the conservative morons who wanted gitmo closed. the issue is the moron aspect, not their politicall affiliation. did you not get that? oh, i see, you were too busy jumping down my throat, calling me a complete moron, accusing me of drinking way too much of the kool-aid and suggesting i could not be any more stupid. guyfromtampa got it and did not object in the least....but you did. for the record, i am a conservative and have never voted for a democrat in any national election, and i have been voting since '76. so, go on with more insults....don't let any sort of logic interfere with your rant....have some kool-aid yourself

[honestabe8]

NancyLou: If you object to what I say, tell me why. You don't have to call people names.

[nofoolling]

Funny how you'll believe there are evil people in other countries or that a bunch of religious wackos living in caves formed a conspiracy for 911 but you couldn't possibly imagine that the same folks that lied us into a war for profit are also responsible for 911.
Posted by nofoolling at 4:59 AM : Mar 11, 2009
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Let's just say for arguments sake that you are correct....WHAT WOULD BE GAINED BY STAGING 9/11?
Posted by msay3 at 8:32 AM : Mar 11, 2009

By staging 911 they rallied public support for a war. A war that they rigged no-competition bids to favored companies to profit from the war.

Not too mention the military industrial powers that have made major bucks from bulding all the bombs and guns and body bags.

Then lets talk about depleting and driving up the price of oil to facilitate the largest transfer of wealth the world has ever known.

911 was staged to provide reasoning for war - a bloodmoney war where our soldiers are expendable. Witness tens of thousands of soldiers going to war ill-equiped and lacking body armor.

WMD, WMD, WMD - 935 public lies to sell a war.

AND THEY'RE STILL RAKING IN BILLIONS ON THE DEATHS OF ALMOST A MILLION HUMAN BEINGS.

[hamiltongrad]

Inside Lacky for the Saudia Arabia Gov't gets top job nod in Terror Security ?


Google Charles Freeman. Get the news that CBS ignores.

[msay3]

Funny how you'll believe there are evil people in other countries or that a bunch of religious wackos living in caves formed a conspiracy for 911 but you couldn't possibly imagine that the same folks that lied us into a war for profit are also responsible for 911.
Posted by nofoolling at 4:59 AM : Mar 11, 2009
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Let's just say for arguments sake that you are correct....WHAT WOULD BE GAINED BY STAGING 9/11?

[NancyLou9]

honestabe8 - you are a complete moron... The Conservatives KEPT Gitmo open and Obama is the one who wants to close it. You are obviously drinking WAY too much of the Kool-Aid and need to slow down. To re-iterate - Conservatives WANT to keep Gitmo, Stupid Dems WANT to CLOSE Gitmo. Jeezy Pete, could you BE more stupid?

[honestabe8]

guyfromtampa: how about the conservative morons who want gitmo closed?

[M_M_design]

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[nofoolling]

The 9/11 conspiracy people are nutjobs and should get a life. This story is about the "real" people that perpetrated this terror. These guys are all about jihad and proudly profess their guilt. The weirdos that say they were tortured into it are a few fries short of a Happy Meal. Does anyone really believe these guys are taking their walking orders from the Bush Admin.? They hate Americans, everything about us, so why would they imprison themselves for a country they hate and to protect our former President? Please Obama, set up some mental health facilities for those who think 9/11 was an inside job, these people aren't in reality and see the boogey-man around every corner, what an awful way to live.
Posted by promaclaura at 4:33 AM : Mar 11, 2009

Funny how you'll believe there are evil people in other countries or that a bunch of religious wackos living in caves formed a conspiracy for 911 but you couldn't possibly imagine that the same folks that lied us into a war for profit are also responsible for 911.

What you mean is that its really wacko to believe in an opposing conspiracy theory other than the one you were spoon fed by 962 time public liars.

You represent the ultimate gullible blind sheeple, one of the ones that W. C Fields spoke of so often and not at all kindly.

I've got a bridge I sell ya.