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He was beaten with electric cables and given electric shocks.
He was forced to endure a variety of stress positions for extended periods. Excruciating pain was inflicted.
In 2006, he was sent to Guantanamo where torture continued. His co-defendants received similar treatment. The ICRC said high-level detainees were repeatedly tortured. To extract a confession, KSM was told:
"We're not going to kill you. But we're going to take you to the brink of your death and back."
After years of horrific torture, mistreatment, and deprivation, it's astonishing he's still alive to be tried. Doing so in military courts is scandalous. At issue is their illegitimacy. It's also about using torture extracted evidence.
Torture is prohibited at all times, under all circumstances, with no allowed exceptions. Evidence so obtained is unreliable and inadmissible. Civil courts won't allow it or shouldn't.
According to MCA provisions, it's permitted. Appeals are prohibited. Convictions are certain. Executions will follow. Justice will be denied. The real 9/11 co-conspirators remain free. They're in charge of condemning innocent suspects to death.
Two earlier Supreme Court decisions ruled torture extracted evidence constitutionally inadmissible. In Brown v. Mississippi (February 1936), the court held:
"The rack and torture chamber may not be substituted for the witness stand."
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