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Graham Signals KSM Trial Reversal Could Clear Way for Gitmo Closure
FOXNews.com
Sen.
Lindsey Graham said Sunday that he would help the White House convince
his fellow Republicans to support closing Guantanamo Bay if President
Obama reverses course and sends the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind and his
co-conspirators to military tribunals.
The South Carolina Republican is considered to be a key player in
the administration's strategy to close the detainee camp at Guantanamo.
He supports shuttering the facility but opposes trying the alleged
architects of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in civilian court.
He acknowledged Sunday that he's willing to play ball with the White
House on Guantanamo, provided it gives him what he wants on the terror
trials.
"I don't believe Khalid Sheikh Mohammed robbed a liquor store. He's
the mastermind of 9/11. ... If he's not an enemy combatant, who would
be?" Graham told CBS' "Face the Nation."
He suggested that using the tribunals for such high-profile terror
suspects would go a long way toward easing opposition from the right to
closing Guantanamo and sending its detainees to U.S. soil.
"I can't do it by myself. But I think if we could get Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed and his co-conspirators of 9/11 back in the military
commission, it would go down well with the public," Graham said.
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