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"To us, they are not accusations. To us they are a badge of honor, which we carry with honor."

5 detainees respond to accusations that they planned the September 11 attacks in "The Islamic Response to the Government?s Nine Accusations," a document filed with the military commission in Guantanamo.

President Obama halted the military proceedings at Guantánamo in the first days after his inauguration, and the five men?s case is on hiatus until the government decides how it will proceed.

Several of the men have earlier said in military commission proceedings at Guantánamo that they planned the 2001 attacks and that they sought martyrdom....

In their filing, the men describe the planning of the Sept. 11 attacks and the killing of Americans as a model of Islamic action, and say the American government?s accusations cause them no shame....

Think, Obama, think. How to proceed?

Full post as published by Althouse on March 10, 2009 (boomark / email).