Here is a link to WaPo coverage of the military commission charges against “Majid Khan, a Pakistani citizen and a former legal resident of the United States.”

[Khan] is accused of conspiring with Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, to conduct a series of follow-up operations in the United States. These included targeting underground gasoline storage tanks, according to the military.

Khan, a graduate of a suburban Baltimore high school near where his parents ran a gas station, is also accused of donning a suicide vest and planning to assassinate former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf.

Now I am all for prosecuting bad guys, but what is our national interest in prosecuting someone for the attempted assassination of another county’s president, presumably in that country?

This from the Florida panhandle:

The phrase “Initial Success or Total Failure” has long served as the unofficial motto of explosive ordnance disposal technicians in the U.S. military.

Until recently, the slogan hung on a wall at the Naval EOD o at Eglin. It was removed after senior EOD leaders decided the words were insensitive.

“It holds some potential insensitivity and implies that our fallen and wounded EOD warriors have somehow failed,” said Joy Samsel, deputy public affairs officer at Naval Education and Training Command in Pensacola. “We don’t want to do that to families.”

I am guessing a certain court that only holds sessions on the departure of Code 45 personnel will similarly be disbanded by like-minded leaders.

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