Topic - Khalid Shaikh Mohammed

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  Ex-CIA officials assail ID of agents

  Former intelligence officials use "reprehensible" and "egregious" to describe the alleged acts of a former CIA officer charged by the government with betraying his own when he revealed the identities of two overseas operatives to the media.

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  Methodical approach slows start of Mohammed trial

  The military officer overseeing the prosecution of Khalid Sheik Mohammed is taking a go-slow approach that would bring the confessed Sept. 11 mastermind to trial months, or perhaps years, from now.

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  Court case reveals details of secret flights

  The secret airlift of terrorism suspects and American intelligence officials to CIA-operated overseas prisons via luxury jets was mounted by a hidden network of U.S. companies and coordinated by a prominent defense contractor, newly disclosed documents show.

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  PATTERSON: King Barack and Monty Python's Black Knight

  In "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," King Arthur fights and disarms the Black Knight. Arthur has just seen the Black Knight defeat another challenger and offers him a seat at Camelot, but the Black Knight attacks Arthur. In this iconic film scene, Arthur chops off the Black Knight's arm. Unfazed, the Black Knight responds, " 'Tis but a scratch - I've had worse. Come on you pansy!" One by one, Arthur hacks off his other limbs, to which the Black Knight responds, "Just a flesh wound." Deprived of his arms and legs, the Black Knight derides Arthur as a "coward" for leaving the scene of battle, threatening to "bite your legs off" if given the chance.

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  Military reinstates charges for 9/11 terrorists

  The Pentagon announced Tuesday that military prosecutors have reinstated charges against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four others for their role in plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

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  PRUDEN: A tortuous route to the right thing

  Torture is not nice. Nice people do not torture (except in rare circumstances). We can all agree on that much - depending, of course, on the definition of "torture." The New York Times, for example, says it hates torture, but having to read a New York Times editorial is the pure torture forbidden by the Geneva Convention.

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  TYRRELL: Papering over credit for bin Laden kill

  I, in my innocence, was, in the aftermath of SEAL Team 6's disruption of Osama bin Laden's bucolic life in posh Abbottabad, reading editorial comment by the great newspapers of this republic. As always, the Wall Street Journal was superb, pausing to congratulate President Obama for "ordering a special forces mission rather than settling for another attack with drones or standoff weapons from afar." The Washington Post was, likewise, informative and appreciative of the president's prudent decision to let SEAL Team 6 do its thing, skirting the laws of a sovereign nation and acting unilaterally to put a bullet hole in bin Laden's head.

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  MILLER: Bin Laden slaying proves Obama wrong to close Guantanamo Bay

  President Obama should expunge his executive order to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay in the wake of the operation to kill Sept. 11 terrorist Osama bin Laden. The killing of al Qaeda's leader, in part due to intelligence gathered at Gitmo, underlines the value of keeping terrorists in a military jail.

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  Debate flares anew on harsh interrogation

  The successful operation against Osama bin Laden has rekindled debate over the use of harsh interrogation techniques during the Bush administration.

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  Republicans note harsh interrogation helped bin Laden operation

  The debate over the use of harsh interrogation techniques during the Bush administration is being rekindled by the successful operation against Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan, which was based on information about the courier extracted from detained terror suspects.

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  Intelligence break led to bin Laden's hide-out

  The nearly flawless, 40-minute covert military raid that killed Osama bin Laden began with an intelligence breakthrough in August that helped pinpoint the compound where the terrorist leader was suspected of hiding.

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  Road to bin Laden's killing marked by loss of top aides

  Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, known to most as Osama bin Laden, was the product of privilege; the 17th of 52 children of a Saudi businessman who made billions in the construction industry and lived a lavish lifestyle. It was the trappings of his well-appointed life that may have led to his ignoble death Sunday in Abbottabad, Pakistan — in a million-dollar three-story mansion, not a cave.

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  VLASIC & ATLEE: Power, not prisoners, is Gitmo legacy

  The Obama administration's decision last week to prosecute Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, before a military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has re-established Gitmo's role in the "war on terrorism." But as one looks toward the future, might Gitmo be remembered not for its role detaining and prosecuting prisoners, but for it role in "greening" the Navy and the Department of Defense (DoD), and thus serving as a role model for the future of America's energy-security needs? Time will tell, but the Department of Defense is possibly already forging a new legacy.

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  EDITORIAL: Obama caves on terror trials

  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s 13-minute rant on abandoning plans for a civilian criminal trial for Sept. 11 attack mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM) had the distinct tone of a sore loser. Mr. Holder's failure to sell his vision of giving international terrorists the full constitutional rights enjoyed by U.S. citizens is a big win for our country.

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  Holder: 9/11 suspects to face military tribunal

  Yielding to political opposition, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced Monday that 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged henchmen will be referred to the system of military commissions for trial rather than to a civilian federal court in New York.

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