The defendants in the 11-S refuse to talk to the military judge

The self-proclaimed mastermind of the attacks of September 11, 2001 against New York, Washington and Pennsylvania , Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged accomplices who are being judged from this Saturday at Guantanamo Bay have refused to listen to the military judge presiding over the process, still preliminary. Mohammed and four alleged accomplices have not wanted to respond to the judge, Col. James Pohl, who had asked the very beginning of the trial if they maintain their current lawyers, military and civilians, or whether they preferred to represent themselves. One of the civilian lawyers for Mohamed, Cheryl Borman, a hijab-wearing Muslim headscarf, black, explained that the defendants refuse to speak in protest at being "mistreated" by the prison guards of Guantánamo. Another civilian lawyer, David Nevin, said that the reason his client is in protest "the torture that has been imposed." Borman has also indicated that the prosecution team should dress appropriately, then the rate because the defendants would incur sin if they were dressed as mirasen. Judge Pohl said then that would not allow Mohamed and the other defendants "frustrate" the process and, if they kept their silence, would assume that they accept their current lawyers. In fact, defendants have refused to use the headphones on listening to the Arabic translation, so that after a short break, a translator has translated out loud each of the interventions. The process has gone on without incident until one of the defendants, the Yemeni Ramzi Binalshibh, accused U.S. authorities of behaving like Libya's Gaddafi Mumamar. "The Gaddafi era is over, but not on this basis," he shouted, addressing the judge Pohl. "You can kill us," he added. The judge warned that if he continued speaking without the word would be evacuated from the room, after which he sat Binalshibh. When 25 minutes had passed since the start of the hearing has cut the video and audio signal receiving journalists covering the trial as a lawyer for Walid bin Attash mentioned something considered classified information. The session is transmitted with a delay of 40 seconds and the journalists are behind glass that prevents the passage of sound. Bin Attash, also Yemeni, arrived in the room in a chair with chains because he refused to participate, but the shackles were withdrawn when a military lawyer said he did not interrupt. Bin Attash himself and a Pakistani, Abd al-Aziz Ali, have prayed standing in the middle of the room. Mohammed and his four companions, Walid bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Mustafa al Hawsawi, have been charged with murder, war crimes, destruction of property, kidnapping, terrorist attack against civilians and for their involvement at different levels in the terrorist operation that killed 2,976 people and began to counterattack U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Iraq in search of the leader of the terrorist network Al Qaeda , Osama Bin Laden, killed a year ago in Pakistan by U.S. military forces. The five defendants have spent years locked in the military prison in Guantanamo Bay claim to have been tortured into confessing his involvement in the attacks. They spent three years in secret CIA prisons before being transferred in 2006 to the Guantanamo prison. The U.S. agency itself has acknowledged that Mohammed was subjected to the technique of "waterboarding" or simulated drowning up to 183 times.