The International Criminal Court is allowed to convene anywhere. If security is an issue, convene an international tribunal at Guantanamo. The International Criminal Court does not have jurisdiction because the treaty did not enter into force until after 9/11, but the United States would have to agree anyway. So the United States should agree to an ad hoc international tribunal, like the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, established by the Security Council. Ad hoc tribunals are questionable, because not created by treaty, but if it was done for Yugoslavia (and Rwanda) it can be done for 9/11. The president of the American Society for International Law president Ann-Marie Slaughter called for such a tribunal in November 2001, so it's not a radical position.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E4D7153BF934A25752C1A...

Here are arguments against an international tribunal by Yale law professor Anne Wedgewood:

http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/2535?badlink=1

I think her arguments were weak then, and weaker now. We're only talking about a few suspects, and revealing what intelligence knowledge the U.S. had 7 years ago should be less of a problem now than when she wrote this in November 2001, when people were worried about future attacks.

My first choice is of course a real criminal trial in federal court, without the threat of being sent back to military detention if the government can't prove any criminal charges. if Khalid Sheik Mohammed has done any of what he supposedly said he did, making some charges stick shouldn't be a concern.

Saddam Hussein "trial".

I can't wait to see what they present has evidence. I'm sure we'll be able to fly a Boeing straight through it.

http://prisonplanet.com/articles/february2008/021108_tortured_patsies.ht...

Chertoff's Gut At It Again...

http://www.infowars.net/articles/february2007/110208Chertoff.htm

The murder weapons (airplanes?) still have not been identified by serial numbers of any of the airplane body or engine parts. How could any court with even the slightest bit of legitimacy get a conviction for murder, if the murder weapons parts - with serial numbers - are in custody of the prosecution, and yet the prosecution has never released the serial of numbers of these parts for verification? THE MURDER WEAPONS HAVE NEVER BEEN POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED!

Demand of your Congressperson, that the serial numbers of parts of the alleged murder weapons be produced for independent verification.

READ THIS:

http://www.physics911.net/georgenelson

"Following a certain number of flying hours or, in the case of landing gears, a certain number of takeoff-and-landing cycles, these critical parts are required to be changed, overhauled or inspected by specialist mechanics. When these parts are installed, their serial numbers are married to the aircraft registration numbers in the aircraft records and the plans and scheduling section will notify maintenance specialists when the parts must be replaced. If the parts are not replaced within specified time or cycle limits, the airplane will normally be grounded until the maintenance action is completed. Most of these time-change parts, whether hydraulic flight surface actuators , pumps, landing gears, engines or engine components, are virtually indestructible. It would be impossible for an ordinary fire resulting from an airplane crash to destroy or obliterate all of those critical time-change parts or their serial numbers. I repeat, impossible." George Nelson
Colonel, USAF (ret.)