Three men who masterminded the murder of 2,976 people on American soil will now live in American prisons at taxpayers’ expense.
The Biden Defense Department has reached a plea deal with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the United States, and two other 9/11 terrorists (Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi) who provided assistance to the 19 men who attacked the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and who crashed the plane headed for the nation’s capital, that saves them from the death penalty.
The families of 9/11 victims and Republican legislators decried the move as a demonstration of “weakness” and “cowardice in the face of terror,” and a “national disgrace.” (READ MORE from Francis P. Sempa: Even More Echoes of 1968)
Senator Lindsey Graham accused the Biden-Harris administration of becoming a “doormat for thugs and terrorists.” Sen. Ted Cruz called it a “disgrace” and a “complete and total miscarriage of justice.” Sen. Mitch McConnell called the plea deal “a revolting abdication of the government’s responsibility to defend America and provide justice.”
A retired NYPD officer whose wife was killed in the attacks, remarked, “The … families have waited for 23 years to have our day in court to put on the record what these animals did to our loved ones” and “they took that opportunity away from us.
