Off with their heads

Rico says the post title is, of course, from the Red Queen from Through the Looking Glass (and Rico's sentiment exactly), but the Associated Press has an article in The New York Times about the real thing in Quantanamo:

Military prosecutors have refiled terrorism and murder charges against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other men (photo of pretty faces, above) in the 11 September attacks, using a revamped trial process at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the Pentagon said.
The charges allege that the men were responsible for planning the attacks that sent hijacked commercial airliners slamming into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania, killing nearly 3,000 people. Prosecutors have recommended that the trial be a capital case, which could bring the death penalty.
The five men, all being held at Guantánamo, were charged previously in connection with the attacks, but those charges were dropped in 2009 when the Obama administration hoped to close the American detention facility at Guantánamo and do away with Bush-era military commissions for trying terror suspects.
The four alleged co-conspirators are Walid Muhammad Salih bin Attash, a Yemeni accused of running an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan and researching flight simulators and timetables; Ramzi bin al-Shibh, a Yemeni who allegedly helped find flight schools for the hijackers; Ali Abdul-Aziz Ali, accused of helping nine of the hijackers travel to the United States and sending them $120,000 for expenses and flight training; and Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, a Saudi accused of helping the hijackers with money, Western clothing, traveler’s checks, and credit cards.
All five men were charged with conspiracy, murder in violation of the law of war, attacking civilians, attacking civilian objects, intentionally causing serious bodily injury, destruction of property in violation of the law of war, hijacking aircraft, and terrorism.
The men were initially charged with the same offenses in February of 2008, but that plan stalled in 2009 when President Obama ordered a review of the military commission system. That November, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced that the five would face trial in a civilian court in New York City. That plan, however, was widely opposed by Republicans in Congress, as well as some New York Democrats, and Congress passed legislation prohibiting any move to bring Guantánamo detainees to the United States. About two months ago, the Obama administration bowed to political pressure and said it would instead prosecute the men before a military commission. The chief prosecutor in the office of military commissions, Captain John Murphy, said he would recommend a joint trial at Guantánamo for all five.