Khalid Shaikh Mohammed

*UPDATE: Judge Allows Censor of Testimony* Censorship Ruling Expected at Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Military Tribunal Hearing

[UPDATE]: Testimony at the 9/11 military tribunal trial at Guantanamo Bay will be subject to censorship, according to court documents released yesterday. Judge Col. James Pohl ruled last week that the testimony of the defendants, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, could conta ... More >>

Censorship Ruling Expected at Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Military Tribunal Hearing

The military tribunal -- where alleged 9-11 master-mind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other alleged 9-11 conspirators will be tried -- is expected to rule at a pre-trail hearing today on the government's request to censor testimony. The government filed the motion back in April, requesting that ... More >>

Abu Hamza al-Masri, High-profile Terror Suspect Extradited to New York to Stand Trial -- And No One Seems To Care

What's does an alleged terrorist have to do to get some attention in this city?Abu Hamza al-Masri is set to stand trial for a terror-related kidnapping in Yemen, for spreading pro-jihadist teachings and for attempting to set up terrorist training camps within the U.S. Apparently, that's not enough ... More >>

Khalid Shaikh Mohammad and Fellow 9/11 Conspirators Are Finally Arraigned

What can 2,976 counts of murder and dozens of other charges of conspiracy, terrorism and hijacking get you? At Guantanamo Bay, Khalid Shaikh Mohammad and the other masterminds behind the September 11th attacks are about to find out the hard way.In an arraignment process that began this morning, the ... More >>

Saturday Night Live Parodies Psychopathic Records' Again With the Columbus Day Assblast!

If you thought (or hoped, depending) that public fascination with Insane Clown Posse had run its course, you would be gravely mistaken. Nevermind that strangely coincidental timing of Lou Reed/Metallica Lulu monstrosity somehow made Jack White's collaboration with Insane Clown Posse far more palatab ... More >>

U.S. Media Favoring Scary Side of Guantanamo Detainees Instead of American Screw-Ups

​Front and center in today's edition of the New York Times is an article entitled "In Dossier, Portrait of Push for Post-9/11 Attacks," a piece that uses this week's WikiLeaks document dump about detainees held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay to tell of terrorist plans never carried out ... More >>

Khalid Sheikh Mohammad Won't Be Tried in New York City, But at Guantanamo Bay

​The self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, will not be tried in a New York City civilian court as previously announced by the Obama administration in November 2009, but will instead face war crimes charges, along with four others, at Guantanamo Bay. Th ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden Poster From FBI Doesn't Even Mention 9/11

FBI's poster of Bin Laden.​The FBI's Ten Most Wanted list of course includes Osama bin Laden, but it doesn't say he's wanted for murdering several thousand New Yorkers on 9/11. What gives? Why the pussyfooting around such an obvious fact?

Khalid Killed Daniel Pearl — New Report Confirms It With Bloody Details

​A new report concludes after 31,000 words that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (above right) is not a liar: He really did kill Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl (above left) nine years ago in Pakistan, as Khalid had said. But there are lots of new details from this investigation, some of them grue ... More >>

Rightbloggers Denounce Stewart - Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity Cat Stevens

On Saturday in Washington Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert held their Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Keep Fear Alive. The purpose of the event, which drew more than 200,000 people, was to help Cat Stevens win support for his fatwa against Salman Rushdie. What, you didn't know that? You must have mis ... More >>

Feds: Trial of 9/11's Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in NYC 'Not Off the Table,' But His Execution Is a Done Deal

Backtracking on the White House's backpedaling, a top Justice Department official now says that the government hasn't dismissed its original plan to try 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City. But no matter where he's tried, we're going to execute him, says President Barack Obama's ch ... More >>

Post: Wimpy New Yorkers Will Set KSM Free

Conservatives claim that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other terror trial defendants will be set free by liberal judges directed by Muslim Hitler Obama. Most normal people do not believe this, so a secondary talking point has been cooked up: the evil liberal people of New York are too evil and liberal ... More >>

New Poll: New Yorkers Divided Over Terror Trial

​The Obama Administration's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others accused of masterminding the 9-11 terrorist attacks in civilian federal court in New York City has sparked all sorts of ire -- from former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's media campaign over the weekend, some members of ... More >>

Giuliani beats the 9/11 drums

​The baseball season is over, and both Michelle Obama and prominent example of his terror-fighting judgment Bernie Kerik stepped on whatever good press Rudy Giuliani might have gotten from his sweet World Series seats. So what's a putative gubernatorial candidate to do for a little free media? ... More >>

Quick hit: accused 9/11 planners to face trial in NY

​Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that 5 prisoners accused of plotting the 9/11 terrorist attacks will be transferred from the the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp to face trial in a civilian court in New York. Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, Walid bin Attash, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Mustafa Ahme ... More >>

More 9/11 Oddities: 9/11 Musical, Charlie Sheen, KSM Photos

​As we prepare for the eighth anniversary of 9/11, the horrible event is being put to strange uses. In Southern California, playwright Faye Hollins-Moore and composer Kent Horner are set to debut a 9/11 musical, Secrets in the Sand. Plot: a young American soldier debates re-enlisting. On the ... More >>

Guantanamo's Final Days

The infamous Prison Camp ain't dead yet

Print and the pauper

The Nose Knows: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the 9/11 Military Court Hearings

The Official Village Voice Election-Season Guide to the Right-Wing Blogosphere

A confederacy of dunces

GITMO Tapes Uncovered by NJ Law Students

Tabloided: The News Says 'Burn in Hell'

Former Candidate Rudy: The Year in Stories

What the CIA Had to Destroy

The many reasons this torture evidence was too hot to handle

Meet Rudy Giggliani

Giving Credit Where It's Due

Rudy's Ties to a Terror Sheikh

Giuliani's business contracts tie him to the man who let 9/11's mastermind escape the FBI

Ghost Prisons, Ghost Courtrooms

From CIA secret prisons, 14 "high-level" terror suspects are at Gitmo. Where are all the others?

CIA Secret Prisons Exposed

The disappeared: Are they dead? Are they alive? Ask Congress. Ask the president.

The CIA's 'Black Sites'

What are we going to do with the secret prisoners who cannot be tried in our courts?

Morning Report 12/4/05
Version Airways: More Suspect Renditions

Prisons of Darkness

CIA leads U.S. in 'reaching for the low moral ground' in the war against terrorism

Open and Shut

Four years later, we still have ten big questions

Reading Between the Lines

What's covered in the 9-11 report? What's covered up?

Disappearing Prisoners

Are they dead? Are they alive? Where is the media? Does anybody out there care?

Is Mohammad Singing?

U.S. 'Pushing the Envelope' in Making Al Qaeda Man Talk

Monsters of the Moment

From Saddam to Osama, America Creates Its Own Nightmares