Five “detainees” at Guantanamo Bay who the Bush Administration accused of planning the 9/11 attacks have proudly admitted their guilt. The New York Times reports that the men filed a document with a U.S. military judge entitled, “The Islamic Response to the Government’s Nine Accusations.” (The document has not been released yet, but an unnamed government official read portions of it to a Times reporter.)
The five prisoners describe the 9/11 attacks and the murder of 3,000 Americans as a “model” of Islamic action. They assert that the accusations against them “are a badge of honor, which we carry with honor.” The Times reports that this document was written by the Islamists “at meetings they are permitted to conduct periodically at the detention camp.”
Really? I have some questions. So, at the prison where we are accused of torturing prisoners, we allow them to meet regularly and consult with each other? What is this, the Islamic Book Club or the Mecca Sewing Club? Now that we have confessions, does President Obama want to revisit his decision to suspend military trials? And, finally, will the confessions now silence the “9/11 truthers,” that bizarre group of fanatics on both political extremes who for eight years have obscenely claimed that we attacked ourselves on 9/11?
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