Last week, a US military lawyer on the defense team for self-proclaimed 9\/11-attacks mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed resigned from the Army in protest of the \u201cshow trial\u201d conducted by the US at Guantanamo Bay.<\/p>\n
Maj. Jason Wright resigned on Aug. 26, according to\u00a0NPR<\/a>. He accused the US government of\u00a0\u201cabhorrent leadership\u201d<\/em>\u00a0on human rights and due process at the military detention center at Guantanamo, where Mohammed and other defendants are being prosecuted for the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.<\/p>\n Wright joined the military in 2005, serving 15 months in Iraq. He then worked as a Judge Advocate. He served on Mohammed\u2019s defense team for three years. His resignation came after he refused an Army order to leave the defense team so he could complete a graduate course for his promotion from Captain to Major, saying it would have been unethical to follow the order.<\/p>\n Mohammed was captured in 2003, and spent years in CIA\u00a0\u201cblack site\u201d prisons<\/a>\u00a0around the world. He was waterboarded 183 times during this period. This torture, and that of the other defendants, is a leading reason as to why the 9\/11 case has not yet gone to trial.<\/p>\n