Tag: 9/11

Different Headlines: Black Bear Chases 11 Year Old Into StoreAnd Leaped Over The Counter; Woman Set Ablaze On Chicago Train; Immigrants Not Assimilating, It’s A Takeover; AI Circle Jerk Between Microsoft/Nvidia/Anthropic; Lynard Skynyrd/Foreigner Hit The Road Without 1 Original Member In Either; Cannibals Harvesting For Witch Doctors….and more

Wokeness

U. Portland Thanksgiving Play Mocks White People’s Social Justice Performativity – they didn’t even have to put the school in. I already knew it had to be from Portland. That part about facts and history kind of get in the way, but that didn’t stop them.

Nature

Black Bear Chases ‘Screaming’ 11-Year-Old Boy Into Dollar Store Before Leaping Over Counter

5th Column

Zohran Mamdani endorses candidate for New York State assembly seat who once boasted 9-11 was America’s fault because of ‘system of capitalism, racism, white supremacy and islamophobia’… – Pandora’s box has been opened.

Sure, Chicago is safe and doesn’t need help with crime

Woman Set Ablaze on Chicago Train in Late-Night Attack – when was the last time it had a republican mayor?

It’s not immigration, it’s an invasion

Muslim Mayor Brags About Immigrants Coming Here and Not Assimilating to Our American Culture – It’s the same war they’ve been fighting since 610 AD. Ruin everything they touch and take it back in time, on the American taxpayer’s dime.

On How To Drink Coffee

‘Black Coffee Isn’t Complicated, so Why Do Baristas Keep Trying to Screw It Up?’ and Other Coffee Gripes – It’s not a milkshake and a pumpkin spice latte is for TikTok

Rock ‘n Roll

Lynyrd Skynyrd, Foreigner Hit the Road Without Any Original Member — Is This the Future of Rock? – no thanks. I’d rather listen to the real thing

AI Technology

AI “Circle Jerk” Rages On: Microsoft, Nvidia Invest $15 Billion in Anthropic – equation for a crash in value

Is Google Spying On You Using AI? – Yes, they are

College Football

South Carolina Football Addresses Rumored Fist Fight Proving Shane Beamer’s Lost Control – When you blow a lead that big, what do you expect, other than being fired?

Dining Out, properly

Florida Woman Is Getting Mocked For Her ‘Dining Etiquette’ At Ruth’s Chris Steak House. What’s The ‘Proper’ Way To Cut Meat? – First of all, Ruth’s Chris isn’t that great and don’t learn from this girl’s manners or English.

Epstein Hoax

Comer calls out Democrat Party efforts to defame Trump in Epstein docs controversy: ‘Their latest anti-Trump hoax has collapsed’ – The only guilty ones so far are Democrats

The Epstein Emails May Soon Take Down Another Democrat… – one down, more to go

The Dems’ Epstein Files Narrative Is Already Imploding – They can’t even get the correct Epstein

 Leading fundraising group for Democrats solicited Epstein years after he pleaded guilty

Hakeem Jeffries becomes latest Democrat stung by Epstein files

The Truth of Socialism

Zohran Mamdani Says ‘Nothing Is Actually Free’ as He Asks Backers for Additional Money… – except for the ruling class

Mamdani: Before and After the Campaign – So he’s a democratic socialist. I’ve got news for yout, that’s what the Nazi’s were in the 1930’s. Way to go NYC

A Headline with so much going on, I couldn’t even fathom the evil

Erik Prince: Cannibal Narco Zombie Gangs Kill Police, Behead Them, Carve up Their Bodies, and Harvest Their Organs for Sale to Witch Doctors – don’t do drugs

Islam

Young Muslims Becoming More Radical, 57% Prioritize Islamic Law Over French Law While 21% Want the Full Sharia – taking the being French out of France

The progressive and Islamist movements, both global in scope, have far more in common than meets the eye.

Climate Scam and Cow Farting

Norway Pauses Use of Fart-Reducing Cattle Feed in Wake of Danish Cow-Tastrophe – They are smarter than the Danes and the UK.

Remembering 9-11: “That Feeling That We Were Really All One People”

I was working with our European divisions (every Country as it was IBM) and on 9/12 they were all “We are Americans too”.

By the next day, they were back to their favorite sport, trashing America. Everyone shoots for number one, and since Bush was a republican, the hate came back quickly and with even stronger wishes for the USA to be harmed.

Let’s not forget that I’m married to a European. Her family didn’t think that we should protect our country because of the violence it would cause. They stopped being my in-laws that day and became my wife’s family. I had mentioned that this was the biggest attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor.

An analyst I was forced to deal with was saying how the US didn’t have to fight 2 fronts in WWII. I calmly reminded him that we had the Japanese going on at the same time. Yes, he was an asshole and an ignorant one at that.

I don’t even go to see them anymore because the liberal press in Europe can out liberal the US liberal press. They believe every word and the hate they have for Trump is only matched by Keith Olberman and Rosie O’Donnell.

Anyway……

Next year will be the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. Most folks who were adults at that time remember it like it was yesterday.

Many of us have also had years when we’ve felt like distancing ourselves from the anniversary commemorations. Even for those not directly impacted, memories of that day—and the days that followed—still bring back traces of a trauma we’d never felt before. A feeling of insecurity we’d never experienced. Perhaps actor Tony Danza summed it up best when he said “I don’t like revisiting how I felt.”

In some ways the trauma seems to deepen with time, as new layers of grief emerge–like memories of loved ones who shared those moments but are now gone.

This year I decided to crack open the door and look back, if only for a little while.

In doing so, I came across some videos I’d never seen before–interviews with celebrities of that time period discussing where they were on 9-11.

Ten years after the attacks, producer and director David P. Levin released his documentary “When Pop Culture Saved America: A 9-11 Story.” Originally produced for A&E Networks, it explored how entertainment, comedy, and music helped Americans cope and rebuild in the months that followed. Levin spoke with numerous celebrities for the documentary, later posting extended interviews on his “Pop Goes the Culture” YouTube channel.

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They didn’t remember. The people I dealt with were happy when we got attacked every time since and were mad when we protected ourselves.

Quick Headlines Of Interest

Muslims in France are threatening to burn down the Notre Dame Cathedral unless French authorities release Ibrahim Alisaoui, a Muslim migrant who killed three French citizens by stabbing them inside a church

NASA promotes the non-discovery of life on Mars by Perseverance

Another Win for the GOP in the Redistricting Wars

Prior Charges, Delayed Evaluation Among Missed Signs in Charlotte Stabbing

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox: ‘I want to be very clear that this is a political assassination…’

. . . ‘You Are the Hate’: Anna Paulina Luna Rips Dems After Kirk’s Assassination

MSNBC analyst Matthew Dowd terminated, network apologizes for his ‘unacceptable’ comments

Old Logo Stays, Remodels Gone—Cracker Barrel Caves to Customers…

Obama Actually Says We Have No Idea What Motivation Was For Charlie Kirk Assassination – what a liar

7 Horrific Incidents of Violence Against Conservatives

Spain’s Power Grid In One Chart: Net Zero Drive Pushes Economy Toward Paralysis

Legal Immunity for Pesticide Manufacturers? – NO!!!!!!!

The Rhetoric of 9/11 on the 24th Anniversary

WATCH: Vile TMZ Staff Caught Cheering Moments Before Announcing Charlie Kirk’s Death, Outlet Wildly Claims It Was Over a ‘Car Chase,’ Excuse Obviously Falls Flat

Drone Footage Reveals Overhead View of UVU Crime Scene Where Charlie Kirk Was Assassinated — Shows Tent, Shooter’s Position, and Escape Route

Notable Headlines Part II:

I’m playing with the title and the concept, but I can cover more territory this way. When I want to pontificate, I’m more than happy to upset or make a lot of people happy.

I’m trying new things to keep it interesting. I’ll keep them brief, this isn’t the Drudge Report.

Official Black Lives Matter Account Appears To Justify Violence In Wake Of Charlotte Stabbing

Charlie Kirk Dead At 31 Following University Shooting

‘Boob Jobs,’ ‘Filler,’ ‘Botox’: Democrat Makes Absurd Case For Transgender Ideology

Browns’ Shedeur Sanders Is Out Here Selling Jerseys Like Hotcakes Despite Not Playing Whatsoever

ROOKE: The Left’s Ticking Time Bomb Is Blowing Up In Their Face

Charlotte City Council Had a Literal ‘Let Them Eat Cake’ Moment After Iryna Zarutska Murder

‘We Want To Keep The Power’: Older Congressional Dems Really Don’t Want To Retire

ABC Proclaims Charlie Kirk Had It Coming, Students Didn’t Want Him on Campus

“Let’s Just Say Something Big Will Happen Tomorrow”: 𝕏 Account Posts About Charlie Kirk a Day Before Assassination

Gate 17 Sign Added to Shanksville 9/11 Memorial

Women Turn to ‘AI Husbands’ for Meaningful Relationships…

Charlie Sheen Tells How Bill Clinton Hit on His One-Time Girlfriend…

House Dems Shout ‘No’ When Boebert Requests Spoken Prayer For Charlie Kirk

Headlines Of Notice:

Click on them if it interests you, I promise it’s all over the place

Poland Seals Border With Belarus, Bracing For Russia’s ‘Zapad’ War Games

Newly Declassified FBI/CIA Files Reveal Two Saudi Government Operatives “May Have Served as an Advance Team” for 9/11 Hijackers — Official Narrative in Tatters as Timeline Shifts Back to 1998 When Clinton Was President Getting blow jobs instead of being Commander in Chief

When you go woke and shit on your fanbase – NASCAR’s Viewership Decline Reaching Dangerous Levels

Covid Jabs are not vaccines

‘Do you not know?’ Medical ‘expert’ stunned into silence when senator asks about basic mRNA facts

Unearthed Emails Blow Hole In Fauci’s Claim That He Never Asked Staff To Delete Emails

DIE’s Assault on American Suburbs Has Created a Housing Crisis Hoax

Vitamin D Deficiency: The Silent Epidemic and Natural Ways to Combat It

“Couldn’t Get Any Dumber”: Democrat Jasmine Crockett Blasted for Claiming the Point of Law Enforcement Isn’t to Prevent Crimes

Legacy Media Gets Easily Outraged, Except When a Black Man Brutally Murders a White Girl [VIDEO]

Blackout Hits Cuba Again as Power Grid Collapses
How China is exporting its censorship system…

Gangs in Sweden hiring children as hitmen…

It Wouldn’t Be Just “Over There”: How China Could Bring War With Taiwan to the U.S.

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Here’s the ‘secret sauce’ to identifying 60 years of US psyops…

Widespread mistrust of the US government, media, and “experts” didn’t go mainstream until President Trump splashed onto the scene. That’s why they hate him so much. He’s the cog in their machine. The disruptor who yanked back the curtain and exposed just enough to jolt the country awake. Thanks mostly to Trump’s America First movement, we now know the truth: many so-called “experts” are just political pawns, there’s one big “uniparty” screwing us all over, and the fake news media is running a giant CIA psyop on the American people.

That’s right—we thought those CIA “mind control” tricks were reserved for foreign hellholes. Turns out, they’re using those same nasty tactics on us.

https://twitter.com/bfcarlson/status/1601216811483250688

Sean Davis:

Ready to have your minds blown? I know what’s going on with the drones, and I will share it with you. But I’m also to give you the secret to seeing through all the nonsense we’ve been peddled for 60+ years.

What I am about to reveal to you is the Rosetta Stone for interpreting every major news event. I will give you the secret to unlocking the mystery. One simple assumption will reveal everything. Are you ready?

“The U.S. government was behind it and is lying to you to cover it up.”

That’s it. That’s all you need to assume, and you will be correct. Think I’m crazy? That it couldn’t possibly be that simple? That it could never be that obvious? Let’s try it out and see how it works.

Who killed JFK? The U.S. government was behind it and is lying to you to cover it up.

How did the cartels manage to get so many drugs into and so much cash out of the U.S.? The U.S. government was behind it and is lying to you to cover it up.

Why were all those women and children at Waco burned to death? The U.S. government was behind it and is lying to you to cover it up.

Who let the 9/11 hijackers into the U.S.? The U.S. government was behind it and is lying to you to cover it up.

Why were there no WMDs in Iraq? The U.S. government was behind it and is lying to you to cover it up.

What caused the housing market collapse and the massive devaluation of the U.S. dollar? The U.S. government was behind it and is lying to you to cover it up.

What happened with all that Russian collusion stuff in 2016? The U.S. government was behind it and is lying to you to cover it up.

Where did COVID originate? The U.S. government was behind it and is lying to you to cover it up.

Why was discussion of Hunter Biden’s laptop banned in 2020? The U.S. government was behind it and is lying to you to cover it up.

Who blew up the NordStream pipeline? The U.S. government was behind it and is lying to you to cover it up.

And finally: what’s going on with all those drones in the Northeast? Say it with me: “The U.S. government is behind it and is lying to you to cover it up.”

Every time there is some major new story that everyone is fixated on, assume that the story exists because your government is trying to manipulate you for its own purposes, and you will be correct at least 9 out of 10 times. Maybe even 99 out of 100.

Follow this simple rule, and you will know what is actually happening before anyone else. You will appear to be clairvoyant. And you will have a superpower that no one in corporate media has: the ability to see the truth.

Use it wisely.

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1868714070620168388

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Negotiating With The 9/11 Terrorists, Betraying The Country

Update: The deal is now off the table as the blowback this close to an election was too much. They would have done it. Kamala needed help at the ballot box. This administration negotiated with terrorists.

This is a slap in the face to the families who lost relatives in the World Trade Center. These terrorists should be executed.

whoever negotiated this is a traitor and a coward

Never-Before-Seen Footage Shows New Angle of 9/11 Twin Tower Demolition

Remember when voting that weak leadership such as the one we’ve had for the last 3.5 years invites this behavior.

The view is very revealing as it zooms in, but when I saw it I was as pissed off at the goat herders who did it as I was the day it happened.

Previously unreleased footage shows the moment the World Trade Center Twin Tower buildings in New York City collapsed nearly an hour after being hit by commercial airliners.

The never-before-seen footage uploaded 23 years after the terror attacks shows the towers engulfed in smoke shortly before they fell in free-fall into their own footprints, much to the horror of New Yorkers and onlookers across the globe.

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Did They Find Jimmy Hoffa Buried There Also?

A 9/11 victim’s DNA helped police identify remains — found more than 20 years ago under a famed New York City address — as those of a teen last seen in 1969, authorities said.

Construction workers made the gruesome discovery on Feb. 10, 2003, at 301 W. 46th St. in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, where the famed rock night club Steve Paul’s The Scene once played host to some of music’s biggest acts.

“They were knocking through the concrete floor [and] a skull rolled out,” New York Police Detective Ryan Glas told NBC New York.

Publicly accessible DNA records, including those of a victim of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, linked the 2003 remains to Patricia Kathleen McGlone, a Brooklyn girl who would have been about 16 in 1969.

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9/11 HiJackers Real Motives Were Not Material, And It is Playing Out Today

I remember how I was not PC at IBM when I posted that Muslims were the Terrorists in most cases around the world Junaidah Dahlan from our Malaysian office tried to say that she was offended. Well, history has proved my point and most terrorists are muslim. The facts are what they are.

9/11 Fail In 2021

This is pitiful, as is the handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal that allowed this. Those that hated us then, still hate the US and still want the same thing, destruction of what we stand for and why. Now they have been outfitted to carry out their plans.

The 5 terrorists released from Guantanamo for Bergdahl now are in positions of control in Afghanistan. They have more Blackhawk Helicopters than any country other than the USA. We don’t have anybody on the ground for intelligence so that we can identify and neutralize any terror attacks.

These are the same conditions that set up the 9/11 attacks.

Do you feel safer now? I don’t.

9/11, 11 Years Later…A Roundup of Posts

Today we remember the 11th anniversary of the worst attack against America on our home soil.  This year, it is mildly different as the perpetrator, Osama Bin Laden is now dead due to the bravery of Seal Team 6 (video of the actual operation here).

I congratulate the president on executing the mission to attack him, although it would have been better if we had been able to waterboard him for more information.  I believe that except for the most rabid of pacifists, most Americans would have been happy to give the same order.

Likewise, we should give credit to the Bush administration for setting up the intelligence network and the extracting and the correlation of the intelligence that lead to his demise.  So a great number of people who contributed should share in the credit and be praised for a job well done.

Here is a round up of coverage during the day regarding this anniversary.  I’ll gladly include any other coverage that is respectful and accurate.

9/11 And a shining city

We could have captured Osama before 9/11 but let him get away

Fortunately, we didn’t close Guantanamo Bay

Enhance interrogation on KSM helped find OBL

How and why we failed to coordinate the evidence about 9/11

The Path to 9/11

The makings of the next attack which could be nuclear

Rudy Guilinani: The Pain Stays, the Fight Goes On

9/11, A day of remembrance

9/11, Good vs. Evil

American’s prepare to mark the anniversary of 9/11

9/11 at 11: A Patriots day

United Airlines Flight 175 South Tower 9:03 a.m.

American Airlines Flight 11 North Tower 8:46 a.m.

5 words and 2 numbers – the note from the 84th floor

9/11: Remembrance, Resolve, Action

9/11: Americans remember attacks on 11th Anniversary (Photos)

A Tribute to 9/11 victims

Allen West’s statement on the 9/11 Attacks

The Pain never dies

Game Over, Evil Is Revealed

I post this to remind those like Junaidah Dahlan, who got offended because I blogged that Islam produced the terrorists, but the facts show that it is true. Almost every terrorist attack is Muslim Junaidah. Go be offended somewhere else and for a real reason.

9/11 Trial, First a Circus….

Read the full story here, but making a farce of it seems to be the first objective.

Walid bin Attash used to frequent online dating sites. “Loves to travel — sometimes at a moment’s notice,” bin Attash described himself before his 2003 capture. So writes former CIA veteran Jose Rodriguez in his new book, “Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives.”

On Saturday, bin Attash was one of five defendants charged with 2,976 counts of murder for their role in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It would seem that bin Attash has grown very devout at Guantanamo Bay. His civilian attorney, Cheryl Bormann, wore a hijab and an abaya at the military pretrial hearing. She even suggested that female prosecutors dress in more “appropriate” fashion in deference to the defendants’ “fear of committing a sin under their faith.” According to news reports, distaff prosecutors wore military uniforms with knee-length skirts.

“Is the bin Attash in your book the same guy whose attorney feels she must cover her entire body?” I asked Rodriguez. Yes, he answered. “These people are pretty hypocritical. One thing is their religious beliefs; the other thing is what they do.”

It’s clear from Saturday’s antics that the military tribunal, which is not expected to begin until May 2013, will be a circus. Defense attorneys don’t have much of a claim to the clients’ innocence. In 2007, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed issued a statement in which he proclaimed that he was the mastermind of 9/11, “from A to Z.” In 2008, KSM and his co-defendants told a military court that they were guilty and wanted to be martyred.

When President Barack Obama was elected, he halted military legal proceedings in favor of a civilian trial in New York. Fearing a possible terrorist attack, Congress objected. Under new rules, the military tribunal is back.

The Real KSM – I Will Personally Kill You

One of Mohammed’s frequently stated goals was to be put on trial in civilian court in New York — which nearly happened until Congress last year blocked the Justice Department from transferring any Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United States.

INTEL GATHERING: Al Qaeda’s 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed was held at secret CIA interrogation jails — or “black sites” — like this one in Lithuania (pictured), where he was waterboarded 183 times but did not crack, according to a new book by CIA interrogation boss José Rodriguez Jr. What finally broke the terror chief was being kept awake for 180 straight hours — more than a week — and subjected to loud noises, slaps to the face and stressful positions, such as standing for long periods of time.
José Rodriguez Jr.

José Rodriguez Jr.

“It seemed to us that he was looking for a platform from which he could spout his hatred for all things American, and a trial would certainly present that opportunity,” Rodriguez writes. “It strikes me as more than a little ironic that several years later, Attorney General Eric Holder almost granted KSM his wish.”

Once he became compliant, Mohammed developed a rapport with his interrogators, watching PG-rated movies with them in his cell, and offering a religion-themed overview of the “history of the world.”

“A few months later, he reported that he was ready to continue and build on his earlier presentation. He had one requirement, however. Only those officers who sat through the prerequisite first session should be invited to the [second] session,” Rodriguez recalls.

He even penned “playful” notes to them, Rodriguez says. “Unless you are trying to manipulate me, could you turn up the heat a bit?” the terrorist asked in one missive.

But it was all a facade.

After telling an officer to have a “safe trip” before he left for home, Mohammed continued, “It is not that I wish you well. But if I ever get out of here, I want to personally be the one to kill you.”

By his own admission, Mohammed’s done it before.

“In a confession he later submitted for a potential tribunal in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, KSM wrote: ‘I decapitated with blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan,’ adding, ‘For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head.’”

Washington analysts had Mohammed pose holding a sack with a bowling ball in it, so they could compare his arm to those in the video cutting Pearl’s throat.

“Those photos compared to the actual video showed that KSM was not lying to us,” Rodriguez writes. “Just when you thought he had a human face, he would disappoint you.”

9/11 Terrorist Trial

I’ll try not to take sides and let justice be served.  I’ll post events that are being covered as they occur.  I don’t know if KSM was really the mastermind as he claims or has delusions of grandeur.  Either way, he has all the appearances of being a troublemaker.

At least it is a military trial instead of a civil trial (he’s not a citizen of the US, rather an enemy) in the US with the ability to get off on a technicality.  We should see it to conclusion.

He and the others want to die as martyrs, for the only guarantee in the Koran of reaching heaven is dying in Jihad, although Gitmo may not qualify.

I caught shit from the Muslims at IBM who said they were offended by my calling Muslims Terrorists.  Junaidah Dahlan from Accenture started in on my blog and I just said I’m calling it like it is.  The terrorists were and almost always are Muslims Junaidah.  Take your offense elsewhere

From the WaPo:

This weekend’s arraignment marks the beginning of the third major effort to bring the 9/11 conspirators to justice. The Obama administration dropped earlier military-commission charges against them when it decided in late 2009 to bring the 9/11 case to federal court in New York. But Congress, not wanting Guantanamo detainees brought to the United States, blocked the civilian trials. Meanwhile, the administration’s own view of the institution was evolving. When President Obama first took office, he froze commission proceedings with the apparent intention of shutting them down. But later that year the administration shifted gears and worked with Congress to make small but important adjustments to the Bush-era Military Commissions Act. These left commission proceedings more closely resembling the norms of a federal court trial.

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It’s been a long time since KSM was last in court. In 2008, during an arraignment for a commission that ultimately got cancelled, he quickly pled guilty to multiple murder counts. “This is what I want,” he told the court, in English. “I’m looking to be martyr for long time.”

That case was interrupted for a variety of procedural reasons, and KSM never got his chance. In the intervening years, Congress and the Obama administration reformed the controversial military trials — making it easier to seek capital punishment, by providing detainees with so-called “learned counsel” lawyers specifically skilled at death-penalty cases, which makes such sentences less likely to be reversed on appeal. Last month, after flipping a key detainee to testify against KSM, the government brought charges against KSM and four alleged accomplices for the 9/11 plot. “If convicted,” the Defense Department clarified, “the five accused could be sentenced to death.”

However much the commission procedures have changed, KSM’s ambitions probably haven’t. “He wants to die because it fits into his massively egotistical narrative,” says Josh Meyer, author of the recent book The Hunt for KSM. “He’s like Napoleon. Wasting away in a cell is not his style. Going out in a bang of glory is.”

That calculation means that the 12 U.S. military officers who will decide if a convicted KSM lives or dies will face more than a narrow legal choice. They’ll also, however unfairly for them, have the burden of a policy choice. Should KSM be put to death, it might simultaneously provide a measure of closure for the families of his victims and allow al-Qaida’s remaining acolytes to portray him as a martyr.