Letters to the Editor — Aug. 22, 2023
The Difficulty: A possible deal that may take away the potential for the demise penalty for 9/11 orchestrators.
I misplaced my brother, FDNY Lt. Glenn Perry, on 9/11 (“KSM Should Face Demise,” Editorial, Aug 18).
It’s a travesty that the mass assassin who masterminded this assault, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, continues to be alive, and it’s extra of a travesty that he might not get the well-deserved demise penalty.
However what would you count on from gutless President Biden’s Pentagon’s Workplace of the Chief Prosecutor?
The workplace despatched letters to 9/11 victims’ households to get opinions relating to a doable discount, which can take the demise penalty off the desk.
However these officers actually don’t care. They simply need the case closed.
If they can’t get KSM the demise penalty after he murdered 3,000 harmless victims, they’re as ineffective as Biden himself.
Though the tragic occasion occurred 23 years in the past, it looks like yesterday. And yesterday is when KSM ought to have taken his final breath.
Frank Perry
Morristown, NJ
No negotiation with terrorists — once more.
As a 9/11 member of the family, I used to be at Guantanamo for pre-trial hearings in 2016.
The Marxist Armed Forces of Nationwide Liberation for Puerto Rico (FALN) terrorists — who murdered my father, Frank Connor — had been granted clemency by the Clinton administration in 1999 for pure politics.
We’re transferring in that very same route now. Leftists will justify KSM and the others’ launch with the identical disgusting recitation as they did through the FALN clemencies — that these terrorists by no means killed anybody. In the event that they had been on the planes, they’d be lifeless.
As I stated at Eric Holder’s 2009 Senate affirmation listening to, any authorities that may launch terrorists for politics would do something.
Joe Connor
Glen Rock, NJ
The truth that the cretins who deliberate and coordinated the 9/11 murders are nonetheless alive and effectively in US custody is a travesty.
They successfully signed off on their very own demise warrants after they launched these assaults. By even entertaining the considered proposing a plea deal, this administration, as soon as once more, demonstrates its cluelessness and ineptitude.
Peter Kelly, Hazlet, NJ
Final week, the 9/11 households obtained letters from the FBI and the Division of Protection, Workplace of the Chief Prosecutor, letting us know negotiations are underneath approach to principally let Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the architect of the 9/11 assaults, and his 4 primary cohorts off the hook.
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, after we watched in shock and horror because the planes — jetliners filled with males, girls and youngsters — flew straight into the towers of the World Commerce Middle and burst into large balls of flames, would anybody had ever believed that we might ever be “negotiating” with the individuals who did this? “Always remember”? Effectively, we’ve forgotten.
Whenever you do what KSM and the remainder did, you’ve earned demise. Anything can be an injustice, an offense to the reminiscence of these brutally taken that day and an invitation for additional assaults from the subsequent group of loco fanatics.
Michael Burke
The Bronx
I couldn’t be extra disgusted by this administration, which is reportedly contemplating providing to supply a plea deal to 9/11 terrorists who murdered 3,000 individuals on this nation.
I’m with out phrases. I perceive that most individuals on this nation by no means knew anybody who died on 9/11.
The individuals in control of this nation are destroying it. Relaxation in peace, all 9/11 victims. Survivors, households, pals — your president doesn’t care about you and thinks time heals outdated wounds.
Glenn Stevenson
Staten Island
I examine how the federal government is attempting to dealer a deal that may take the demise penalty off the desk for the 9/11 terrorists. I discover it tremendously sickening that such a deal may even be mentioned.
We misplaced practically 3,000 harmless individuals to those ugly human beings, and we must always strike a cope with them?
Actually? How do you suppose the households of those victims really feel about this?
Lou Bivona
Belleville, NJ
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