Defending his role in a series of terror attacks and plots, Khalid Sheik Mohammed drew on examples of wars for independence in US history, likening Osama bin Laden to George Washington.
In a personal statement, Mohammed said that if we were now living through the period of the American Revolution, the British would refer to the leader of that struggle for independence, and the first President of the United States, as an “enemy combatant”.
“But America, they consider him a hero,” he said.
Mohammed told the tribunal: “…we consider we and George Washington are doing same thing. As consider George Washington as hero, Muslims many of them are considering Osama bin Laden. He is doing same thing. He is just fighting. He needs his independence.”
Mohammed urged the tribunal to treat other detainees fairly. He said that some people being held at Guantanamo Bay were actually spies sent by “Sunni government” to assassinate bin Laden in Afghanistan.
They had been caught and imprisoned by the then Taliban regime in Afghanistan and when American forces found them in prison, arrested as “enemy combatants”.
2007-03-16
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