9/11 Mastermind Confesses to Attacks - New York Times
”I was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z,” Mohammed said during the session, which was held last Saturday.
Mohammed claimed responsibility for planning, financing, and training others for bombings ranging from the 1993 attack at the World Trade Center to the attempt by would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoes.
This stirs echoes in my head of 12th grade history when we learned about show trials and the ability they (and the events leading up to them) have in getting people to admit to pretty much anything.
Show trials, which often take place under authoritarian régimes, albeit sometimes in a democratic country, far more often than not have the purpose of eliminating or suppressing the political opponents of an organization, such as a current government or a church. In the case of Joseph Stalin, the show trials were used for political, economic, social and military reasons. For example Stalin had many of the ‘old bolsheviks’(long term members of the party)put on trial and exucuted so that he could bring his ideas forward with little to no opposition. The trials also scared the public into obeying Stalin’s regime, ultimatly making Stalin to appear untouchable to any enemies. Many of the show trials Stalin ordered though, were down to his paranoia.
Just incase anyone questions the legitimacy of the situation, the media is barred from entering the trials.
Legal experts have criticized the U.S. decision to bar independent observers from the hearings from the high-value targets. The Associated Press filed a letter of protest, arguing that it would be ”an unconstitutional mistake to close the proceedings in their entirety.”
I don’t doubt that this guy was somehow connected to 9/11, but without sounding too Michael Moore-ish, I think trials like this should be going on for a lot of people within the Bush administration, or their friends. What ever happened to finding Bin Laden?
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