Slippery slope
March 14th, 2007 | 
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And suddenly we hear from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) again!
I must admit, I wouldn’t have been surprised if we never would have heard from him again (like a few other high profile terrorists who made the headlines when they were captured).
“I was responsible for the 9/11 Operation, from A to Z,” Mohammed …Â said …
Mohammed, … also said he was responsible for a 1993 attack on New York’s World Trade Center, the bombing of a nightclub in Bali, Indonesia, and an attempt to down two American airplanes using shoe bombs.
Wow! He was the guy behind all that?
Does that mean we’re now going to release Ramzi Yousef, who we have in custody for masterminding the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center? (Granted, KSM IS his uncle). And Bali? I thought they picked up Abu Bakar Bashir for that. For that same bombing in Bali, the US has Riduan Isamuddin (known as Hambali) in custody (in an ‘undisclosed location’, which, as we now all know, means either Israel or somewhere in Europe, probably in one of the Balkan countries).
But, as it now turns out, is was KSM who masterminded it all and confessed to it all.
You know … somehow I can’t get the thought out of my mind that KSM was being … well … let me say … ‘given an incentive’ or ‘persuaded’ to admit all this. I also wouldn’t be surprised if some of the pressure that was put on him involved some levels of discomfort. Maybe even more than some ‘okay’ (Cheney!) ‘waterboarding’.
If I would have had the same audience as some of my bluddies, I could imagine the TONS of comments along the line of “I don’t give a rat’s ass: FRY the pig!”
And, you know, I totally understand that sentiment.
But is it right? Wouldn’t we be stooping down to what we so despise in our ennemies? Besides, from a practical point of view: if we (illegaly!) torture them so that they confess .. so that we can kill them legally .. what’s the point? Why not (illegaly) kill them right away? Saves a LOT of money, time and problems.
Anxious to receive some comments on this .. but I know, that’s slightly problematic with only two readers 😉
And yes, I also put this in the ‘religion’ category. Is KSM a serial killer, a beast, an animal? No, I think he’s primarily just a deeply religious being.
Link to article: link
Update:
Today [3/15/2007]Â it became known that KSM also admitted to having beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002.
In fact, I thougt that that was what he was picked up for in the first place, but anyway, I wouldn’t be surprised if we hear tomorrow that he masterminded Jimmy Hoffa’s disapearance as well, or had the hand in JFK’s assassination.
Link to article: link
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I was going to skip commenting on this, since I hate getting involved in religion wars.
But I think in this case (and in many cases like this) we are fucked. We can’t do right. We either let the bastards go, or we put them somewhere that we know they won’t be let go from.
I don’t agree with the torture part (not even sure I agree on what IS IS when it comes to torture. For me – no Internet. For a terrorist? I’m not so sure.)
And I would prefer we just legally killed them right up front. At least this jackass has an opportuninty to brag about his life’s accomplishments. The people in the WTC didn’t have that opportunity.
Personally, I am scared to death that most Americans are going to get exactly what a vocal portion (majority/minority – depends on how you ask it) seem to want – us pulling back and ignoring the nests these snakes breed in until they are powerful enough to strike us here again. With an improved ability to kill.
Quitting the fight now almost ensures a global war in the future, I think.
In any case, I commented.
Rob
I’m also skipping commenting on this one, for the same reason. Just wanted to point out the slight difference in wording you might get from an “average European” (no such thing exists, of course, just suppose):
“Starting the fight (especially: for the wrong reason) almost ensured a global war in the future. The continuation of the fight now ensured it, I think”
Indeed, nearly impossible to “do right”… after done so much wrong.
To balance the above: the US just followed the trail blazed by the European colonial powers of the past centuries – the root of this problem imho. Just too bad they did not learn from history…
Oops – guess I commented too?
@the both of you:
Whether or not you want to FIGHT this religion war is of course totally up to you.
But you ARE already INVOLVED, whether you like it or not.
The buildings you work in are under attack, the subways you ride are under attack, the planes you fly in are under attack.
And we most likely have seen only the tip of the iceberg yet.