Let’s be brutally honest with each other over this metaphorical coffee. Mohammed himself has said he wants to be executed—he’s practically daring the system. But the system is so tangled in legal red tape, it can’t even tie its own shoes.
Do we even want a trial anymore? Rhetorical question—but think about it. Every delay makes the whole thing feel less like justice and more like a fifty-year long game of legal chess where one player fell asleep.
The 9/11 families? They’ve been waiting twenty-three years. That’s older than some of the college students reading this. They’ve watched commissions, hearings, and delays pile up like dirty laundry after a road trip.
One lawyer said it plain as day: “This trial is a zombie.” It’s dead but keeps shuffling along, groaning for more motion filings.
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The judge in question, Air Force Col. Matthew McCall, has the patience of a saint. He’s trying to wrangle a case with 14 different co-defendants, multiple languages, and evidence that moves between “top secret” and “classified” like a tourist swapping currency.
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Every hearing is a logistical nightmare. They have to fly lawyers from DC to Cuba, feed them MREs, and hope the Wi-Fi doesn’t crash. One lawyer joked that “maybe we should just Skype this in.” But no—satellite delays make that impossible.
So, 2028 rolls off the tongue nicely, doesn’t it? It sounds like a sci-fi movie. “The Trial of 2028.” Coming to a Guantánamo courtroom near you, maybe.
