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Messy Legal Rules and Procedures Make Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Trial Doubtful

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KSM’s arraignment bogged down over his treatment and the judge’s ‘process’—suggesting proceedings may never advance to an actual trial, says Terry McDermott.

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Why are we making this so hard?

We have the crime of the century, willing defendants, mountains of evidence, uncoerced confessions. And still I came away from the weekend's Guantánamo

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