9/11 ATTACKS “NATURAL REACTION” TO UNITED STATES OF AMERICA’S FOREIGN POLICY
Miami: The man who says he was the mastermind of the terrorist attack terrorism seeks to justify the plot as a “natural reaction” to United States of America policy in an exceedingly blistering letter sent to then President Barack Obama from the Guantanamo center jail.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, one of five Guantanamo center prisoners facing trial by certification for his or her alleged roles within the hijacking plot, also writes in the letter free yesterday that it doesn’t refer him if he receives a prison term or the capital punishment from the judicature.
“If your court sentences me to life in jail, I will be terribly happy to be alone in my cell to worship God the remainder of my life and repent to him all my sins and misdeeds,” Mohammad wrote.
“And if your court sentences me to death, I will be even happier to fulfill God and also the prophets and see my best friends whom you killed unjustly all round the world and to check tribal sheik Osama Usama bin Laden.”
Mohammad sought-after to send the letter in 2015 however was prevented by jail authorities and later by the military decide presiding over his case at the request of prosecutors, who labeled it “propaganda.”
After litigating the issue, the tribunal allowed the letter to go through last month even as Obama was deed the presidency.
The letter also condemns Obama, saying the former president’s hands ar “still wet with the blood of our brothers and sisters,” a reference to the deaths of
Palestinian civilians in Gaza at the hands of Israeli forces as well as those killed by United States of America drone strikes in Yemen et al.
“The two blessed attacks in Washington and New York adhered to any or all universal laws and were a natural reaction to your damaging policies towards the Moslem world,” Mohammad wrote.
The contents of the letter were first printed by The Miami Herald. A copy was provided to The Associated Press by lawyers for the prisoner. They expressed doubt Obama saw it since it reached the White House only days before the finish of his administration.
Marine Corps Maj Derek Poteet, a military lawyer appointed to represent Mahound, said his consumer started the letter in 2014, prompted by civilian deaths in Gaza and aforesaid it echoes arguments he has created throughout his time in confinement.
“It appears to be a continuation of a consistent theme that he believes Americans don’t count the casualties intimate by others round the world, perhaps particularly Muslims, as being valuable,” Poteet said.
Mohammad and his co-defendants face charges that embrace hijacking, terrorism and nearly three thousand counts of murder in violation of the laws of war in a case that is still within the pretrial stage.
