Torture at Guantanamo

It seems like everything is coming full circle now:

Alleged 9/11 Plotters Offer to Confess at Guantánamo
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — The five Guantánamo detainees charged with coordinating the Sept. 11 attacks told a military judge on Monday that they wanted to confess in full, a move that seemed to challenge the government to put them to death.

The request, which was the result of hours of private meetings among the suspects, appeared intended to undercut the government’s plan for a high-profile trial while drawing international attention to what some of the five men have said was a desire for martyrdom.

But the military judge, Col. Stephen R. Henley of the Army, said a number of legal questions about how the commissions are to deal with capital cases had to be resolved before guilty pleas could be accepted.

The case is likely to remain in limbo for weeks or months, presenting the Obama administration with a new Guantánamo issue to resolve when it takes office next month.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/us/09gitmo.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print

Although the torture is more of a well-timed decision to saddle the Obama Administration with the issue it seems to complicate the disgust that came out of Abu Ghraib.