The prosecutor of KSM in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) will be Preet Bharara, who became an AUSA in 2000 and (supposedly) went after organized crime like Giuliani (supposedly) did. Bharara is now the US attorney in the SDNY.

Others associated with the US attorney's office in the SDNY, in terms of how they relate to the overall story of 9-11.

• Rudy Giuliani was the US attorney for the SDNY, from 1983 to 1989
• James Bucknam, Kroll’s executive VP for Operations, worked for Rudy Giuliani as an AUSA SDNY
• Michael Chertoff was an AUSA SDNY and later became Homeland Security Secretary
• Michael Mukasey was a US District Judge for SDNY from 1987 until 2006, and led the 1993 bombing trial
• Louis Freeh, now Bandar Bush's attorney, was FBI director from 1993 to June 2001, and was an AUSA SDNY and a US District Judge for the SDNY
• Patrick Fitzgerald, someone who is accused by Peter Lance and others of complicity in terrorism, was also an AUSA SDNY
• Anthony Scalia, one of the Supreme Court Justices who selected W. for his first term as President, was an AUSA SDNY
• Richard Ben Veniste, 9-11 Commissioner, was an AUSA SDNY
• Kenneth Feinberg, who managed the 9-11 Victim's Compensation Fund and is now Obama's "Pay Czar", was an AUSA SDNY
• Dietrich Snell, who rewrote the 9-11 Commision report purging the Saudi connections and Able Danger, was an AUSA SDNY

Regarding KSM's Al-Jazeera confession...

April, June, or August 2002: Al Jazeera Reporter Claims to Conduct Interview with 9/11 Masterminds
It is originally reported that Al Jazeera reporter Yosri Fouda interviews 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM) and 9/11 associate Ramzi Bin al-Shibh at a secret location in Karachi, Pakistan, in either June [London Times, 9/8/2002] or August. [Guardian, 9/9/2002] Details and audio footage of the interview come out between September 8 and 12, 2002. The video footage of the interview al-Qaeda promised to hand over is never given to Al Jazeera. [Associated Press, 9/8/2002] Both figures claim the 9/11 attacks were originally going to target nuclear reactors, but “decided against it for fear it would go out of control.” Interviewer Fouda is struck that KSM and bin al-Shibh remember only the hijackers’ code names, and have trouble remembering their real names. [Australian, 9/9/2002] KSM, who calls himself the head of al-Qaeda’s military committee and refers to bin al-Shibh as the coordinator of the “Holy Tuesday” operation, reportedly acknowledges “[a]nd, yes, we did it.” [Fouda and Fielding, 2003, pp. 38] These interviews “are the first full admission by senior figures from bin Laden’s network that they carried out the September 11 attacks.” [London Times, 9/8/2002] Some, however, call Fouda’s claims into doubt. For example, the Financial Times states: “Analysts cited the crude editing of [Fouda’s interview] tapes and the timing of the broadcasts as reasons to be suspicious about their authenticity. Dia Rashwan, an expert on Islamist movements at the Al-Ahram Centre for Strategic Studies in Cairo, said: ‘I have very serious doubts [about the authenticity of this tape]. It could have been a script written by the FBI.’” [Financial Times, 9/11/2002] KSM is later variously reported to be arrested in June 2002, killed or arrested in September 2002, and then arrested in March 2003. After this last arrest report, for the first time Fouda claims this interview took place in April, placing it safely before the first reports of KSM’s capture. [Guardian, 3/4/2003; CTV Television, 3/6/2003] Bin al-Shibh also gets captured several days after Fouda’s interview is broadcast, and some reports say he is captured because this interview allows his voice to be identified. [Observer, 9/15/2002; CBS News, 10/9/2002] As a result, Fouda has been accused of betraying al-Qaeda, and now fears for his life. [Independent, 9/17/2002] As the Washington Post states, “Now Al Jazeera is also subject to rumors of a conspiracy.” [Washington Post, 9/15/2002] Yet after being so reviled by al-Qaeda supporters, Fouda is later given a cassette said to be a bin Laden speech. [MSNBC, 11/18/2002] US officials believe the voice on that cassette is “almost certainly” bin Laden, but one of the world’s leading voice-recognition institutes said it is 95 percent certain the tape is a forgery. [BBC, 11/18/2002; BBC, 11/29/2002] It will later be revealed that details of the interview were told to the CIA in mid-June 2002, which directly resulted in bin al-Shibh’s arrest a few months later (see June 14, 2002 and Shortly After).

Edit: Coleen Rowley told me that she met Fouda and he is the "real deal."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Lachelier

I think it's normal and expected that some 9/11 activists will get frustrated and angry with family members who embrace claims that activists have worked against for years, and now are even embracing the death penalty.

OTOH, the death of loved one has a huge impact on people in ways they may not even understand for years. And in these cases it was a violent, preventable and highly public death. We can expect some distorted and unfortunate views, and everyone is different, both in their responses to traumatic events, and in their interpretations of those events.

No one is wrong, we're just all different and at different places in our understandings and abilities to integrate the huge amount of information about the 9/11 attacks.

That said, we're 8 years into this, and I will openly say that I reject any calls for the murders of anyone more in connection to the 9/11 attack, no matter what they have or have not confessed to, and no matter who is calling for it.

Murder does not equal justice. It equals murder.