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Pentagon: 9/11 conspirators want to confess
* Story Highlights
* NEW: Attorney: Victory "tainted by torture, unfair military commissions
process"
* Pentagon says detainees have asked to withdraw motions, plead guilty
* Judge accepts 3 requests, orders competency hearings for other 2 detainees
* It has not been determined whether defendants will face potential death
penalty
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Five detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, say they want to
confess to conspiracy charges for planning the September 11, 2001, attacks, a
Pentagon spokeswoman said Monday.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed -- the confessed architect of the attacks, who was
captured two years later in Pakistan -- and four other alleged co-conspirators
asked a military judge if they could withdraw all pending motions and plead
guilty, Maj. Gail Crawford said in an e-mail.
The defendants announced their decision in front of relatives of victims in the
al Qaeda-orchestrated attacks, said Jennifer Daskal, senior counterterrorism
counsel for Human Rights Watch. She attended Monday's hearing.
The military judge accepted the requests from Mohammed, Ali Abdul Azziz Ali and
Walid bin Attash, but ruled that competency hearings are first needed for
Mustafa al Hawsawi and Ramzi bin al Shibh, because "questions exist as to their
competency to stand trial," Crawford said. VideoWatch more on the hearing »
It has not been determined whether the defendants, formally charged in June,
will face a potential death sentence.
The commissions to try foreign terrorists have been delayed for years by legal
challenges. In 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled an earlier version of the
commissions was unconstitutional, forcing the Bush administration and Congress
to revise guidelines for the military tribunals at Guantanamo.
"What should have been a major victory in holding the 9/11 defendants
accountable for terrible crimes has been tainted by torture and an unfair
military commissions process," Daskal said.
"This is the government's last hurrah," she added, referring to the final weeks
of the Bush administration's second term, which ends January 20.
Denis McDonough, a senior adviser to President-elect Barack Obama, said no
decisions have been made about what to do with the 255 inmates at the U.S.
detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, "and there is no process in place to make
that decision until [Obama's] national security and legal teams are assembled."
Officials close to the Obama team said the incoming administration is
considering putting some of the inmates on trial in existing federal courts,
setting up a special national security court to deal with cases involving
sensitive intelligence, and releasing other inmates.
Some conservatives, however, don't like the idea of bringing suspected
terrorists to the U.S. mainland.
"There's really no place in the United States that can replicate the sort of
operational security features that Guantanamo has," said David Rivkin, a former
Justice Department official.
In 2006, President Bush said he would like to close the prison but announced it
needed to remain open to house what he called "cold-blooded killers."
The Pentagon's chief prosecutor resigned in protest in 2007 after declaring the
military commissions had become "deeply politicized."
Critics say the camp has damaged the reputation of the United States overseas,
with a U.N. report declaring that interrogation techniques used on prisoners
"amounted to torture."
The White House has consistently denied that the United States practices
torture, but CIA officials have admitted to using "waterboarding." The
technique, which is said to simulate drowning, has been considered a war crime
in the past.
Several detainees, including Mohammed, were moved to Guantanamo Bay in
September 2006 after being held in secret CIA prisons around the world.
The detention facility, which was intended to house foreign fighters captured
on the battlefield, was created on the grounds of the naval base after the
September 11, 2001, attacks that killed almost 3,000 people in New York,
Washington and Pennsylvania.
CNN's Jamie McIntyre contributed to this report.
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