The Guantanamo defendants were not co-operating at their arraignment. One tactic was to demand that the charges against them be read aloud in court. Not unreasonable really. That took two and a half hours. Wow.
Apparently the lawyers thought they were being paid by the word. The charge sheet was 87 pages long. The ten Commandments themselves can be typed on a single A sized piece of paper. Who needs 87 pages to say "this no good nick planned 9-11"? Frankly having to sit around for another two and a half hours serves all the lawyers, and the judge, right.
The reason to try KSM and his buddies, is to convince the rest of the world that they are guilty and they deserve every bit of what we are going to give them. 87 pages of legal malarkey won't convince anyone, not even a bunch of Army officers serving as jury, let alone the Arab street. It only takes a few words to spell out why we want to execute these scumbags, and the arraignment is the place to say those few words.
I'd say the prosecutors need to find some real lawyers, and the judge oughta be replaced on account of terminal stupidity.
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