GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — With a judge's permission, the self-styled mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks is wearing camouflage at his Guantanamo military tribunal.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed sported a camouflage vest over a white tunic Wednesday as he sat at his defense table in a heavily guarded courtroom on the US base in Cuba.
Mohammed and one other defendant attended the pretrial motions hearing. Three defendants chose to stay in their cells. The five are charged with planning and aiding the worst terrorist attack on US soil.
WAR-DROBE: GITMO JUDGE RULES KSM CAN WEAR CAMO
TRA'VEST'Y OF JUSTICE: Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed won approval to wear camouflage gear made by US military clothier Rothco.
Khalid Sheik Mohammed
His lawyers said previously that Mohammed considers himself a prisoner of war and wanted to wear clothing similar to what he wore as a mujahedeen fighter. The judge in his terrorism trial ruled Tuesday he could wear camouflage. The prison commander had previously forbidden it.
The Post reported yesterday that the terror mastermind and his cohorts holed up at the Cuba-based detention center have already made a formal request to wear an American uniform.
In fact, the camouflage-patterned hunting vest pictured in the request bears the label of a US clothing maker, Rothco, which describes itself as America's foremost wholesale supplier of military and outdoor products.
The request also shows a picture of a similarly camouflaged jacket, but the label is not showing.
Mohammed's lawyers argued that since he belonged to the mujahedeen militias that the United States financed to overthrow the Soviet-backed communist regime in Afghanistan, he was entitled to wear the camouflage.
"Mr. Mohammed wore a uniform," said Capt. Jason Wright, one of the defense attorneys.
The military judge, Col. James Pohl, rejected government arguments that the camouflage was inappropriate and could cause security guards to mistake Mohammed for a US serviceman.
The two sides disagreed on the judge's intent concerning the use of older uniforms.
"The order doesn't specify past or present," a commission official said. "It says that 'the accused may not wear any article of US military clothing.' That would seem to encompass past and present US military clothing."
But James Connell, a lawyer for one of the defendants, interpreted the ruling differently.
He said the judge does not specify whether past military uniforms would be permitted. If Mohammed and the others want to wear American uniforms no longer in use, Connell said, "that would have to be sorted out."
The decision outraged some families of 9/11 victims who were already disappointed at Pohl's ruling the day before that allows the defendants to skip the pretrial hearings if they wanted.
Mohammed, his nephew Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, aka Ammar Baluchi, and the alleged financier of the 9/11 plot, Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi, did not appear in court yesterday.
Mohammed watched the proceedings on a video feed in a nearby holding cell. Defendants Ramzi Binalshibh and Walid bin Attash attended the hearing.
Marty Toyen, of Avon, Conn., whose 24-year-old daughter, Amy, was killed in the World Trade Center attacks, said the camouflage ruling was a slap in the face.
"I don't consider him a warrior," Toyen said. "I consider him a terrorist. A warrior fights other warriors. This was an attack against civilians with no warning."
Merrilly Noeth, of Jackson Heights, Queens, whose son Michael, 30, was killed at the Pentagon, said she caught a glimpse of Mohammed at Monday's hearing.
"I don't just have to have nightmares about stick figures anymore," Noeth said yesterday about finally getting to see Mohammed in the flesh. She was wearing her son's Navy jacket in court.
The five defendants charged in connection with the attacks of September 11, 2001, who are in hearings this week in Guantanamo, are accused of conspiracy, and six other offenses under the Military Commissions Act.
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