Everyone remembers what they were doing and where they were on September 11, 2001. I was at the head of the stairs in my house in Livonia, Michigan, heading downstairs to the basement where I had my computer. I froze. That was the day that two planes were flown into the twin buildings of the World Trade Center. Over 3,000 people died. The mastermind, Khalid Sheik Mohammed was eventually captured along with some of his associates, and then, the dilemma began. How do you try a terrorist who has done horrific things? Where do you try him? Questions like this are the bane of democratic governments—balancing civility with cruelty in an ever changing world. The challenge with trying a man who has been tortured in secret in open court is that you will never find a Judge who will convict such a man in the United States. There, you go—-civility wins over cruelty. Khalid Sheik Mohammed gets to avoid the death penalty because a conviction cannot be obtained. He can however, continue to be held in Guantanamo or some other foreign cell where the laws of civility do not apply. He lives to exercise his fundamental human rights, rights which he denied three thousand people and their families on that dreadful day.
Michael Ovienmhada.
Correspondent, Egogonewshub.
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