A Joke Too Far.

This is the 20th member of the Mohammed Atta hijacking team.
The team was so large because the evil ringleaders needed to use peer-pressure to ensure that everybody died together.

This fellow has already admitted to plotting the atrocity in 2001.

But to make his admission into a lynchin' offence(ie in order to ignore the adequate law), the 'jury' today faced(straight-faced) the world's correspondents with the statements that:
he was guilty of planning to 'destroy aircraft'
and
he was guilty of 'planning the use of Weapons Of Mass Destruction'.

Now I can't claim to know all there is to know about US law, but these sound like a big pile of steaming bullshit, designed to deliberately victimise their captive criminal rather as if Patton had gone to the ruins of Berlin and said he was going to kick German Butt.
After the unconditional surrender.

Weapons of Mass Destruction is a media-political bottle of linguistic baby-vomit, not a crime.
Any crime so defined is almost certainly a retro-active monstrosity which didn't exist at the time of the atrocity in question.

And the more illegitimate the prosecution renders itself by such devices, the more po-faced and repetitive becomes the restatement of the case, rather like Pinky writing a threat.

As for plotting to destroy aircraft, that is another load of bollocks; a crime against property is Criminal Damage, and plotting to 'destroy aircraft' is just Criminal Damage obscured by yet another layer of half-witted drivel.

It is the Sacred Conch all over again. The less meaning their statements have, the more solemnly they are made, as if tone and clothing can impart meaning to degenerate nonsense.

To kill this man is justice(of sorts).
But to kill him by stripping the law of meaning, by creeping up like an inevitable disease on an honest criminal, that is shameful.

They are carrying out the act of justice under cover of lies, so that justice is not seen to be done, and the state commits murder, not execution.

And I think that this has happened once too often for the Bush Presidency to be characterised any other way.