{"id":177635,"date":"2019-07-29T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/07\/29\/well-now-we-know-why-barr-reactivated-the-death-penalty\/"},"modified":"2019-07-29T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T23:40:00","slug":"well-now-we-know-why-barr-reactivated-the-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/07\/29\/well-now-we-know-why-barr-reactivated-the-death-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, Now We Know Why Barr Reactivated the Death Penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Alleged 911 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/alleged-9-11-mastermind-open-to-helping-victims-lawsuit-if-he-isnt-executed-11564426390\">offered to help 911 victims in their lawsuit against the House of Saud if the death penalty is taken off the table<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>Needless to say, not only will the death penalty <b>NOT<\/b> be off the table, but I figure that the prosecution will be directed to try to fry him as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>For all the talk of Trump being a Russian stooge, he truly is the House of Saud&#8217;s rent boy, and if KSM is willing to rat out Riyadh, then the Donald Trump, and his stooge <strike>Bob<\/strike> Bill Barr will make sure that he never has that chance:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB122874988767988097?mod=article_inline\">Alleged Sept. 11 mastermind<\/a> Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has opened the door to helping victims of the terrorist attacks in their lawsuit against Saudi Arabia if the U.S. government spares him the death penalty at a Guantanamo Bay military commission, according to court documents. <\/p>\n<p>Mohammed\u2019s offer was disclosed in a Friday filing in the victims\u2019 federal lawsuit in New York, which accuses the Saudi government of helping coordinate the 2001 suicide attacks. Nearly 3,000 people were killed when terrorists crashed hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and, after passengers resisted, a Pennsylvania field. Riyadh has denied complicity in the attacks. <\/p>\n<p>Separately, President Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/trump-signs-bill-shoring-up-911-victims-compensation-fund-11564414756?mod=article_inline\">signed legislation Monday<\/a> that pays for medical claims from victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, including first responders, for the rest of their lives. <\/p>\n<p>In the lawsuit against Saudi Arabia, plaintiffs\u2019 lawyers had requested depositions from three of the five <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB123669703768883959?mod=article_inline\">Guantanamo detainees<\/a> accused in the Sept. 11 conspiracy. In the Friday filing, a status letter to U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn, the lawyers wrote that earlier Friday, Mohammed\u2019s counsel told them their client wouldn\u2019t consent to a deposition \u201cat the present time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed\u2019s lawyer said, however, that \u201cthe primary driver\u201d of the decision was the \u201ccapital nature of the prosecution\u201d and that \u201c[i]n the absence of a potential death sentence much broader cooperation would be possible,\u201d according to the filing.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His lawyers just signed his death warrant.<\/p>\n<p>They will never let him testify against Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alleged 911 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has offered to help 911 victims in their lawsuit against the House of Saud if the death penalty is taken off the table. Needless to say, not only will the death penalty NOT be off the table, but I figure that the prosecution will be directed to try to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,509,407,373],"class_list":["post-177635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-house-of-saud","tag-justice","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}