{"id":393212,"date":"2010-03-05T12:11:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T17:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78505"},"modified":"2010-03-05T12:11:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T17:11:37","slug":"gen-eaton-ksm-%e2%80%98is-a-murderer-not-a-combatant%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/393212","title":{"rendered":"Gen. Eaton: KSM \u2018Is a Murderer, Not a Combatant\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, who helped command the  training of the Iraqi Army during the early phase of the Iraq war, is  distressed to hear that <a id=\"h.t6\" title=\"at least some of President Obama's advisers are urging  him to abandon a civilian trial for 9\/11 architect Khalid Shaikh  Mohammed\" href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/78470\/will-obama-really-give-up-on-ksm-trial-without-a-fight\">at least some of President Obama&#8217;s advisers are urging him to  abandon a civilian trial for 9\/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed<\/a>.  &#8220;I do not see KSM as a combatant,&#8221; said Eaton, who is now a senior  adviser to the progressive National Security Network. &#8220;This guy is a  criminal, he is not a combatant. He is a murderer. He is not a  combatant.&#8221; Combatants could reasonably be charged under the Uniform  Code of Military Justice in a courts-martial-like system &#8212; which the  military commissions are not. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was <a id=\"ofe2\" title=\"arrested in Rawalpindi, Pakistan in 2003\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/south\/03\/03\/capture.tictoc\/\">arrested in  Rawalpindi, Pakistan in 2003<\/a>, far from any battlefield.<span id=\"more-78505\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Putting  a military face on the American judicial system is counterproductive  for our image abroad,&#8221; Eaton continued, recalling his work to convince  Iraqi soldiers to obey the rule of law and civilian control of the  military. &#8220;If you put the judicial system into the military&#8217;s hands,  that is really a challenge to the premise that civilians and not the  military are responsible for guiding and directing military activities.  It is really a logic break to try these cases in a military setting.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, who helped command the training of the Iraqi Army during the early phase of the Iraq war, is distressed to hear that at least some of President Obama&#8217;s advisers are urging him to abandon a civilian trial for 9\/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. &#8220;I do not see KSM as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}