May 5, - Is arraigned at Guantanamo Bay. After Mohammed's remarks, military judge Captain James Pohl says that no other personal comments by the accused will be allowed.
The CIA had said the method was effective in helping interrogators pull information from Mohammed, but according to the Senate report, Mohammed figured out a way to "beat the system," often recanting information he told CIA officers to get them to stop the waterboarding.
August 30, - Mohammed's trial is set to begin January 11, December 18, - Military judge Col. Douglas K. Alka Pradhan, a civilian employee of the Defense Department who represents one of the five, called what's happening here a "farce. And that's what really people have to understand: The system is set up to fail. It was 15 years ago Monday that President George W.
The reasons the wheels of justice are moving so slowly are many. It's a logistical nightmare to travel here. The military commissions system set up for this trial was created from scratch in the Obama administration, so every rule can be a point of contention — and hours of litigation.
There has been frequent turnover of judges and lawyers. But the biggest factor in why it's taking so long, defense lawyers and other experts say, is the secrecy. It took years for defense lawyers to get summaries of the classified evidence against their clients, and they say they still don't have everything they need, even though they all possess top-secret security clearances. Inside the courtroom, journalists and family members must watch behind a wall of thick glass.
The sound is piped in on a second delay to guard against the defendants blurting out something classified, officials said. I was then put in a sitting position on a plane. The transfer was ok, with no particular problems to report.
The flight was short, only about 1 hour. I arrived at night. The transfer from the plane to the place of detention took about minutes. During my time in this place I could hear planes taking off and landing. I think the place was Bagram. After arrival my clothes were cut off of me, the bag and blindfold were removed and photographs were taken of me naked. I remained naked throughout the three days I stayed in this place of detention.
I was checked by a doctor and asked about my medical history. I told the doctor about the pain I was still suffering from the beating in Pakistan. I was then placed in a cell, about 2m x 4m, naked, where I was kept in a standing position with my hands cuffed and chained to a bar above my head.
My feet were flat on the floor. At first I was questioned for about one hour with no other forms of ill treatment. After about one hour I was taken to another room where I was made to stand on tiptoes for about two hours during questioning.
Approximately thirteen persons were in the room. These included the head interrogator a man and two female interrogators, plus about ten muscle guys wearing masks. I think they were all Americans. From time to time one of the muscle guys would punch me in the chest and stomach. This was repeated during two nights.
Also during this period I was on four occasions taken to a separate room from the main interrogation room. Here cold water from buckets was thrown onto me for about forty minutes. Not constantly as it took time to refill the buckets. Yousef was arrested in Pakistan after the first attempt failed, while Mohammed lay low in Qatar before relocating to Pakistan in to evade a US search. Over four weeks, he was subjected to waterboarding times, as well as to sleep deprivation, repeated slamming against a wall, "rectal rehydration," and other harsh techniques.
The Senate report described him as deeply resistant, frustrating interrogators with lies and fabrications, while giving up relatively general information. But following his transfer to Guantanamo in September , he proudly confessed to the military court and compared himself to George Washington, fighting to escape oppression.
He also claimed responsibility for 30 other operations, including Al-Qaeda-linked bombings in Bali and Kenya, and said he personally murdered the kidnapped US journalist Daniel Pearl, who was beheaded in Pakistan in In , Mohammed's lawyers were in discussions to plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence.
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