The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said.
Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said Sunday the men would not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but "would explain what happened and why they did it."
Where once KSM was ready to plead guilty and die out of the glare of television camera lights in a military trial, now he sees opportunities for continuing the war through our legal system.
Our strategic geniuses in Washington don't even think this is a problem:
"I have every confidence that the nation and the world will see him for the coward that he is," Holder told the committee. "I'm not scared of what Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has to say at trial — and no one else needs to be, either."
Oh really?
Sure, defenders of the civilian terrorist trials insist that we just give them an opportunity to spout their gibberish reasons for waging war and expose their hate to the world, but it is far more likely that the lawyers will get the terrorists to shut up and let legal counsel make the trials a prosecution of American strategy and tactics at war. Much of the world (and far too many of our citizens) will eat that up. They'll love it all.
And even if the lawyers can't get KSM and his minions to pipe down, do you really think that loud ululating expressions of hate for America, Jews, Hindus, and descriptions of outlandish American plots against Islam dating back to the Crusades will be met with revulsion?
Hah! Too many in the Moslem world will nod in agreement, even if they aren't prone to volunteering for the great jihad. And a fair proportion of our Left will concede they do have a point, there, now don't they?
Too many Moslems on 9/11 danced with joy over the news of the attacks because they believed in all sorts of bizarre American conspiracies to keep them poor and backward. And too many Westerners think the jihadis had good reason to hate us even if they don't back the attacks themselves. The "why do they (we) hate us (them)?" questions will be all the rage again.
Hijacking our courts won't be as much fun for the jihadis as flying a plane into one of our buildings, but the jihadis will hit their target this time.
UPDATE: I'm sure this American will see the jihadis for the cowards they are, eh?
Sigh. No wonder our enemies think God is on their side. How could you fail to conclude that when you see how we treat our enemies?
