A federal trial judge ruled last week that defense lawyers for a terror suspect at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, may finally question one of the prison’s most famous inmates, 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to determine whether he, Mohammed, verifies or refutes the central parts of the government’s case against their client, a case built largely upon Mohammed’s various water-boarding-infused confessions over the years. To the surprise of some in the legal world, U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina authorized attorneys for Abdul Raheem Ghulam Rabbani to draft a list of “narrowly tailored” questions they want to ask Mohammed, a man widely recognized as being the central figure in the attacks of September 11, 2001. The judge also ruled that the government will be allowed to delete from Mohammed’s answers information the feds believe implicate “national security concerns.” Still, this notable event may or may not occur. The Justice Department...
- 8/24/2009
- Vanity Fair
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