Dripping from the hands of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is the blood of 2,977 innocent people. That’s more than 2,600 Americans plus residents from 62 other nations.
That’s firefighters who climbed up the burning Twin Towers to rescue more people. That’s passengers on United Flight 93, who voted to give their own lives to overpower hijackers and force smashing the plane into the ground, sparing either the U.S. Capitol or White House and countless other lives. That’s children on the way to Disney Land. That’s servicemen at work at the Pentagon. That’s our people.
And yet, 16 years later, Mohammed has yet to stand trial for what is undoubtedly the worst crime in U.S. history. This is a national disgrace that no one is talking about.
Why has it taken so long for Mohammed, who bears equal responsibility with the more widely known Osama bin Laden (who thankfully sleeps with the fishes, courtesy of the U.S. Navy Seals) for planning the attacks?
That in itself is a long story.
The 53-year-old was already a veteran terrorist leading up to 9/11. His extreme Islamist beliefs led him to help with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and he had tried to hijack planes before, according to the 9/11 Commission Report. That same document called him the “principal architect of the 9/11 attacks.” He did the planning and bin Laden funded it.
We caught him in Pakistan in 2003. For the next three years, he was moved between secret CIA prisons across the world while being tortured — let’s call it what it was rather than the official “enhanced interrogation techniques” — to extract information about other terrorists. I’m not going to shed any tears over Mohammed being
