KSM sings, begs for death; Update: KSM whines that sketch artist made his nose look too wide
posted at 1:05 pm on June 5, 2008 by Allahpundit
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The accused al Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks stood in a U.S. military court on Thursday, sang a chant of praise to Allah and said he would welcome the death penalty.
“This is what I wish, to be martyred,” Pakistani captive Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the highest-ranking al Qaeda operative in U.S. custody, told the Guantanamo war crimes court…
As the judge tried to question him about whether he was satisfied with the U.S. military lawyer appointed to defend him, Mohammed stood and began to sing in Arabic, cheerfully pausing to translate his own words into English.
“My shield is Allah most high,” he said, adding that his religion forbade him from accepting a lawyer from the United States and that he wanted to act as his own attorney.
He criticized the United States for fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, waging what he called “a crusader war,” and enacting illegal laws including those authorizing same-sex marriages.
A silly thing to say given how eager his target audience will be to assimilate his ravings into the “root causes” handbook; Osama’s always had a better grasp of these things, which I guess is why he’s the leader. Here’s a useful rule of thumb to help you decide, in bien pensant fashion, what does and doesn’t constitute a jihadist propaganda victory as the process goes forward. Executing this pig as he so richly deserves is a jihadist propaganda victory because it grants him the martyrdom he seeks, even though we happily run that same risk every time we fire a Predator missile at a safe house in the Pakistani tribal areas. Giving this pig a forum as plum as a trial in which to rant, curse the United States, sing hosannas to Allah, and hold forth on Israel and whatever else is on his mind is not a jihadist propaganda victory because, well, that’s just justice. Truth be told, I kind of like the idea of him showing off how zombified he is: The true worry would be if he tried to play it sane, with all the defense-counsel trimmings, as a ploy to suggest that his ilk are more reasonable and coherent in their grievances than they’ve been given credit for. Instead, it sounds like he’s ready to share his inner Islamic fanatic with the world. All’s well that ends well, and this one should.
LGF has an artist’s sketch of him decked out in his fine new duds for court, so run along and admire.
Update: He’s obviously taking this very seriously.
Accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed objected that a courtroom sketch artist had made his nose look too wide on Thursday and sent her back to revise the drawing.
“He didn’t like the nose,” artist Janet Hamlin said.
Mohammed asked Hamlin to obtain a copy of a photo taken shortly after his 2003 capture in Pakistan and redraw the nose to look as it did in that picture, the artist said…
“It’s a defence attorney issue,” said Navy Cmdr. J.D. Gordon, a Pentagon spokesman. “It’s remarkable the lengths we go to to take their desires into considerations.”
Can you blame him? All this is to him is a stage, paid for with your tax dollars. He might as well look his best.
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thirteen28 on June 5, 2008 at 1:09 PM
Give him solitary confinement for the rest of his life.
A fitting punishment for the lovers of death
Kini on June 5, 2008 at 1:10 PM
Yes, but no needle. I recommend that we take him to the highest skyscraper in New York City, the Empire State Building, set him on fire and push him over the side. The needle is too good for this scum. If we can’t kill him painfully, then I say SuperMax with no privileges for the rest of his life.
fleiter on June 5, 2008 at 1:11 PM
No death penalty. Let him die of old age at 104 the sole, last prisoner unremembered, forgotten.
Let him live in a box for the next 50 years.
rockhauler on June 5, 2008 at 1:11 PM
now, we absolutely have to keep him alive in a cell…life sentence…his prison walls adorned with nude pix of Whoopi and Rosie O drinking wine and eating pork chops.
Mike D. on June 5, 2008 at 1:12 PM
Execute him, but delay the burial indefinitely. If he’s not planted in 24 hours, his soul isn’t going to be with the virgins. There are ways to spoil that whole martyr storyline.
TexasDan on June 5, 2008 at 1:14 PM
Heck, give him a TV with nothing but “The View” 24 hours a day/7 days a week on…
JetBoy on June 5, 2008 at 1:14 PM
That’s it. Life sentence…….in San Francisco!
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 5, 2008 at 1:15 PM
Looks like the “time to make the donuts” guy to me.
Brat on June 5, 2008 at 1:16 PM
The lefties were juuuuuust about to start a tearful solidarity march in Khalid’s honor, then he had to blurt out that little “illegal same-sex marriage” thing. It threw them off their game.
It’s ok though, the march was diverted to Berkeley where the Marine recruiting office was heavily vandalized.
Bishop on June 5, 2008 at 1:16 PM
Hilarious, but isn’t it cruel and unusual? I’d have to throw a pistol in there after 20 years, even for this scum. (of course, we don’t give him a bullet for another 20 years).
p40tiger on June 5, 2008 at 1:16 PM
Make sure there is no way he can get to the TV, not bedding, do bed, just a room with rock walls and a cement floor. Oh and Barbara S singing in the background loudly!
upinak on June 5, 2008 at 1:17 PM
Exactly. His 5×7 cell with a breath of fresh air one hour a day and no human contact besides the friendly guards.
Perfect.
tree hugging sister on June 5, 2008 at 1:17 PM
ITs better to execute him. Most jihadists want to die on their terms killing alot of innocent people with them.
This way he dies on our terms, alone and without the gift of killing others to make his way into his “heaven”
William Amos on June 5, 2008 at 1:20 PM
Would being eaten alive by Hogs do the trick?
I know to brutal for the Hogs.
upinak on June 5, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Thirty years, then turn him into PuppyChow.
Limerick on June 5, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Forget solitary confinement, throw him in with a roommate – one that will make him his bride.
Rick on June 5, 2008 at 1:21 PM
As I said in the headlines, just so long as the method of his execution involves pork products (bullets dipped in pig fat, that sort of thing) and that his corpse is shipped back to his home country packed with the carcasses of a pig and a dog. I know that’s disrespectful to the pig and the dog, but this is war.
Kafir on June 5, 2008 at 1:22 PM
To borrow my comment in Headlines…..
Daily prostate exam by Dr. Elton John.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 5, 2008 at 1:23 PM
Have a women read him his last rights, hang him in private, and make sure he knows that he will be buried with a pig.
right2bright on June 5, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Dispose of him quietly and clinically. Cremate the body. Flush the ashes. Speak no more about him. Let him return to the zero.
LimeyGeek on June 5, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Oh, please don’t give me these ‘we shouldn’t execute him because death is better than life or we would be giving him what he wants.’
Death is not better than life imprisonment.
No one cares what he wants. He doesn’t call the shots here.
It is want we want that matters and our laws say he has earned the death penalty.
Blake on June 5, 2008 at 1:26 PM
Give him life in a general population and he can work on the gay marriage thing in his free time.
Hazmat on June 5, 2008 at 1:26 PM
For good measure, throw in a few copies of the Mohammed cartoons. Perhaps even invite some people to draw new ones.
Bigfoot on June 5, 2008 at 1:26 PM
A life sentence stitching U.S. & Israeli flags together would be nice. Then hang him with them.
Limerick on June 5, 2008 at 1:28 PM
Serve him tofu hotdogs for the remainder of his stay.
Why?
1. Hotdog – thinks he’ll be eating pig ligs and arse
2. Tofu – that’s torture enough. It’s very un-allah-y.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 5, 2008 at 1:28 PM
Have him serve his term in a women’s prison.
Bishop on June 5, 2008 at 1:28 PM
He is talking a tough game, but I am all but sure that he does not want to die. If he did, he would have martyred himself long ago.
I say have him drawn and quartered, by like Saturday.
awake on June 5, 2008 at 1:29 PM
Khalid… meet needle. Put him to sleep like a dog. Won’t make much of a martyr.
RightOFLeft on June 5, 2008 at 1:30 PM
IF this “Pig” died falling into an outhouse the Jihadist would make him a Martyr. Its the way they justify their entire existance.
The way to beat that game is not to play. Who CARES what they say or do dont legitimize the entire idea of “Martyrdom” by even talking about it.
William Amos on June 5, 2008 at 1:34 PM
“Fine then. It will be death… by Booga Booga!”
Rhinoboy on June 5, 2008 at 1:36 PM
No, toss his ass in the Supermax out in Colorado. Let him rot in solitary confinement with his Koran and let him think about it for a while. Don’t let him have his martyrdom.
TheGoblinKing on June 5, 2008 at 1:37 PM
His head on a pike at Ground Zero would be nice. Right next to the pike marked ‘OBL’.
Urban Infidel on June 5, 2008 at 1:38 PM
Why should we all pay to accommodate this cretin? A quick needle, a furnace and a flush is all he deserves.
LimeyGeek on June 5, 2008 at 1:39 PM
Justice delayed is justice denied.
Valiant on June 5, 2008 at 1:42 PM
I say send him back to the middle east. Drop him off anywhere he wants to go. Just make the drop from about 30,000 ft.
moxie_neanderthal on June 5, 2008 at 1:43 PM
Can we all agree that the American courts and mass media are too dysfunctional to carry out an open trial of a person like him properly? It’s the only patriotic thing to say.
freevillage on June 5, 2008 at 1:44 PM
“Fine then. It will be death… by Booga Booga!”
Rhinoboy: God, I haven’t thought of that joke in 20 years!
It would be a good way for KSM to reach his goal of martyrdom…
AOTC
Agent of the Cross on June 5, 2008 at 1:44 PM
This guy sure knows how to pander to your typical liberal dhimmi-wannabe :rolleyes:
That said, i haven’t seen a leftist being baffled by Islamic anti-liberalism. They seem to be upset only when fascist conservatives say such things.
Aristotle on June 5, 2008 at 1:53 PM
I’m all in favor of sending an invoice to Saudi Arabia and Iran to pay for his expenses.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 5, 2008 at 1:55 PM
“Give him… the comfy chair!!!”
Akzed on June 5, 2008 at 1:56 PM
This is really the best argument in favor of same sex marriage I’ve ever heard.
Zetterson on June 5, 2008 at 1:56 PM
His wishes are completely immaterial. What’s important is what the law allows. If the law allows his execution he should be executed because, if you don’t execute a mass murmuring terrorist monster like him, how can you ever justify executing anyone?
TheBigOldDog on June 5, 2008 at 1:57 PM
Too bad I’m not in charge.
If I was, I’d do a surgery on him.
I’d have him poop and pee from his mouth.
Imagine what it can do for a Muslim.
Eating, drinking, pooping and peeing from the same hole.
THAT would make his live miserable.
And it can be done.
Indy Conservative on June 5, 2008 at 1:57 PM
Get him over with before leaving office, W.
No sense leaving loose ends for Bonehead Hussey nObama to exhonerate or McCain to let loose for time served for fear of being labeled a torturer by his leftist buddies across the aisle.
maverick muse on June 5, 2008 at 1:58 PM
When you’re this ugly, inside mainly, and out, what does the width of a nose matter?
Beast! Shameful to be a part of the same ‘humanity’.
Entelechy on June 5, 2008 at 1:58 PM
American’s culture and the spread of it, have long been a motivating factor for the Islamic fanatics. It dates all the way back to the 50s and accelerated in the 90s. Read Ghost Wars for a detailed discussion of it.
TheBigOldDog on June 5, 2008 at 1:59 PM
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LimeyGeek on June 5, 2008 at 2:00 PM
“Everyone’s a critic,” artist Janet Hamlin should have said.
James on June 5, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Indy Conservative
With a little mustard seed, let it be.
maverick muse on June 5, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Hey, that would let him be buggered 24/7!
James on June 5, 2008 at 2:02 PM
Bingo
Good. Let them hate us so long as they fear us.
Zetterson on June 5, 2008 at 2:02 PM
He needs to be put in with a homosexual cell mate that has a thing for flat nosed men covered in animal hair….for life.
Hening on June 5, 2008 at 2:03 PM
Crucify that fat bastard….literally.
wildweasel on June 5, 2008 at 2:06 PM
Wasn’t it that movie Hannibal where the bad guy was planning on lowering Hannibal Lecter into a pit ravenous pigs that would eat him alive?
Oh man, I wish I was in charge.
kcluva on June 5, 2008 at 2:09 PM
He doesn’t want to look too Joooooo-like to other “believers”.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 5, 2008 at 2:10 PM
Send him to California.
I’m sure many gay men will jump on him and he can finally have a legal marriage according to the Qur’an.
Doing a goat all the time is not healthy…for the goat.
Indy Conservative on June 5, 2008 at 2:11 PM
Islam forbids American lawyers?
Seriously though, He needs to get the death penalty for ignoring the separation of church and state by mentioning Allah in a federal facility.
highhopes on June 5, 2008 at 2:13 PM
I think his sketch would look a lot better with a pair of panties on his head, actually.
Alex_SF on June 5, 2008 at 2:15 PM
Ghost Wars? Unless I’m mistaken, TheBigOldDog, the American culture motivating the Islamic fanatics to which you refer is sexual promiscuity and homosexuality. At least the Islamofascists use Hollywood as their excuse to hate/kill all non-Muslims.
Zetterson, although Islam fears our military, they do not fear Americans but loath our liberal weaknesses that they target in our open and free society. Hence, beware of our own corruption and their zealous self-righteousness as either, left unchecked, will ruin the world for everyone, good or bad. “Good. Let them hate us so long as they fear us” may work on a battlefront, but may placate the offending source into further obscenities. I’d rather rake our entertainment industry over the coals for stoking this confrontation having trained their customers in denial.
just saying an opinion
maverick muse on June 5, 2008 at 2:17 PM
I know his Navy Lawyer, socially, he is quite good. He should be more grateful.
Squid Shark on June 5, 2008 at 2:19 PM
I would have drawn him with boobs, a forked tongue and humping a goat.
Bicyea on June 5, 2008 at 2:21 PM
Grant him some public martyrdom. There are, as I understand it, dishonourable ways to be executed in the Muslim faith. Give him one of those.
Otherwise, let him rot.
Krydor on June 5, 2008 at 2:26 PM
CAPT Prince is on right now saying KSM is not compitent to stand trial because he wants to be martyred.
Squid Shark on June 5, 2008 at 2:26 PM
Before they kill the bastard, maybe they’ll let him out long enugh to appear as a special guest on the Letterman, Jon Stewart and Larry King shows and then the libs will figure out a way to spare him.
Travis1 on June 5, 2008 at 2:26 PM
Add to that the cost of the Predator drones we have used to neutralize individuals in Afghanistan.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 5, 2008 at 2:31 PM
Hit him in the face with a bat, then his nose will look more like the drawing.
Beo on June 5, 2008 at 2:39 PM
I don’t think people like him should get all this publicity during their trial. Makes a circus of the whole thing and they end up practically issuing their own press releases. We’re at war, let’s get on with it. One bullet. Done.
CP on June 5, 2008 at 2:42 PM
You, my freind, are a twisted and sick individual. No one should have to endure cruelty and barbarism of this magnitude.
Alden Pyle on June 5, 2008 at 2:49 PM
You can’t.
freevillage on June 5, 2008 at 2:56 PM
I agree with those who say he should die anyway, though this is one case where I support the death penalty taking years.
I don’t care of they use it for propaganda. They will anyway. Just him being in our jails is enough for them.
Esthier on June 5, 2008 at 2:58 PM
Yes, we can!!1
freevillage on June 5, 2008 at 2:58 PM
Does this beard make my but look big?
ronsfi on June 5, 2008 at 3:10 PM
I say give him his “martyrdom.” Let him meet his true Maker on the other side that much earlier. KSM is going to get his reward sooner or later, and I’d rather him get it sooner (and IMHO, the reward won’t be what he’s expecting!).
Eclectic on June 5, 2008 at 3:17 PM
drawn nose too big = torture!
jimmer on June 5, 2008 at 3:24 PM
No more intel to pry out of him? Then it’s time for the firing squad. What’s with all this folderol?
Might be a good idea to wrap him in pigskin, along with those Danish cartoons, too.
MrLynn on June 5, 2008 at 3:31 PM
I would be fine with life in prison, but I have a bad feeling that he would be let out because of a liberal President, a liberal judicial system, or through escape.
SoulGlo on June 5, 2008 at 3:44 PM
For somebody who claims he wants to be martyred for Islam, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed proved to be remarkably fleet on his feet in avoiding such martyrdom while he waged his war of terror upon the civilized world. KSM also knows he is not facing an Al Qaeda tribunal who would kill him on the spot for the love of Allah. He knows that he can posture for the press, calling for his own death all he wants, but that America will carry him as gently as an egg as he traverses our legal process.
Tantor on June 5, 2008 at 4:12 PM
Death by (male) snoo-snoo. Or a life sentence in Oz. I hear Beacher is lonely.
VolMagic on June 5, 2008 at 4:47 PM
Criticism is easy, art is difficult.
Little Boomer on June 5, 2008 at 4:52 PM
No Death penalty. San Quentin has at least 72 men lined up waiting for a new virgin…..KSM must be sweating waterboard size bullets thinking about his future as a gender-neutral bride…..
Enlightened on June 5, 2008 at 5:09 PM
Well I hope you are satisfied! There is a mental image that will require lots and lots and lots of Grey Goose to get out my head……. Bartender!!!!… :)
Bubba Redneck on June 5, 2008 at 5:10 PM
I vote to throw him off the top of the skyscraper in Dubai.
BrianA on June 5, 2008 at 5:11 PM
Hey, he’s learning from
Osamaoops, Obama who doesn’t like how his ears are drawn. In the spirit ofOsama, sorry, Obama and Change, we should honor this poster child for radical Islams’s request forthwith and carry out his wishes. Wonder what he waould say if the Judge simply said: Okay, if that’s what you want, so be it, court is adjourned.Dingbat63 on June 5, 2008 at 5:21 PM
They should put the honor of killing him on ebay.
I’ll start the bidding at $1000.00
TheSitRep on June 5, 2008 at 5:22 PM
Yes, we should definitely keep him alive.
If we kill him, he’ll be a martyr.
Instead, we should leave him alive in prison for life….or, you know, until someone passes a European-style law in the U.S. that makes life in prison illegal, so he gets released….or until he escapes…..or until some crazy followers inspired by the messages that his visitors pass along to the outside world hijack an airplane and demand that he gets released.
Perhaps someone that’s more well-informed on this can fill me in, but, do the thugs we’ve been killing in combat zones and executing over the years actually end up becoming great martyrs and rallying points?
It seems like people get bored of the ones we’ve executed (Saddam, Zawahiri, etc) fairly quickly and it’s the ones we miss (OBL) that are still ‘inspiring’ people.
JadeNYU on June 5, 2008 at 5:28 PM
What do you bet that if the judge said okay, next week you hang, he begins wailing like a baby. He knows our system will keep him alive.
right2bright on June 5, 2008 at 5:32 PM
Drop him out of an airplane at 2,000 feet. That’s not technically an execution, plus it would be wonderful entertainment. Not to mention appropriate justice.
It doesn’t matter. As much regard as I have for the anti-death penalty crusaders on moral grounds, their logic is knee-jerk baloney at best.
HitNRun on June 5, 2008 at 5:36 PM
All you you, “Lets keep him alive or he’ll be a martyr” types need to get it right. When Omar Adbel Rahman aka the Blind Sheik dies, in U.S. custody, he will be a martyr. The crazies don’t need us to execute KSM to make a martyr of him. Unless there is some strategic advantage to keeping him alive, he needs to be served justice.
VolMagic on June 5, 2008 at 5:51 PM
One round in the back of the head and let the body rot in as ditch.
irongrampa on June 5, 2008 at 5:55 PM
I hope he’s not made a martyr for some future psycho Islamofascist, but I repeat myself
ToddonCapeCod on June 5, 2008 at 5:56 PM
We martyr zaqawi with a bomb. We martyred Al Libi with a bomb. We marytred many jihadist does that mean they are stronger or weaker now ?
William Amos on June 5, 2008 at 6:19 PM
Where is Black Jack Pershing when we need him?
Johan Klaus on June 5, 2008 at 6:41 PM
This mass murderer should be hung by the neck until dead. If it was good enough for NAZIs it’s good enough for him. Keeping him alive will only encourage kidnappings and attempts at prisoner exchanges or escape attempts.
Dollayo on June 5, 2008 at 7:29 PM
Death by crucifixion, It’s slow and painful and Allah approved (See Qur’an 5:33).
Annar on June 5, 2008 at 8:07 PM
Andy McCarthy, a man who knows of which he speaks, says thus:
Amen.
VolMagic on June 5, 2008 at 8:30 PM
I love how these guys, who want a caveman existence, never seem to mind availing themselves to infidel technology, such as laptop computers.
KGB on June 5, 2008 at 9:08 PM
No, he should get a life sentence on a pig farm. Why should they be afforded special trappings and clothes. Put them in stripped uniforms with numbers like the rest of the prison population. This is an outrage to cowtow to these murderous vermin
wepeople on June 5, 2008 at 9:34 PM
Good grief folks, don’t waste this man’s talents. He’d fit great into the Democrat party’s destroy America scheme, and especially the Barack Hussein Obama campaign, … JEEZ! /Sarc
byteshredder on June 5, 2008 at 9:49 PM
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