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Wide of court sketch2. Close-up, sketch of judge3. Mid pan of sketch showing defendants in court and victims' family members4. Tilt down sketch of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other defendants5....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eGuantanamo Bay, Cuba - 8 December 2008\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of court sketch\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close-up, sketch of judge\u003cbr/\u003e3. Mid pan of sketch showing defendants in court and victims' family members\u003cbr/\u003e4. Tilt down sketch of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other defendants\u003cbr/\u003e5. Sketch of family members of victims of 11 September, 2001 attacks\u003cbr/\u003e6. Mid of cameraman filming sketches\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Anthony Romero, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU):\u003cbr/\u003e\"What it underscores is just the circus-like nature of the Guantanamo military commissions. The fact that the rules are not understood, that they haven't been truly analysed by all sides, and that there is no way to salvage this debacle. And the only way to salvage it is by scrapping it entirely and starting afresh.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Mid of Diane Amann from National Institute of Military Justice talking to reporter\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Diane Amman, National Institute of Military Justice:\u003cbr/\u003e\"A fundamental principle of the American justice system is that all players, the judge, the prosecutor, and most certainly the defendants know the rules of the game before it starts.  And what we learned today is that not the defendants, not the prosecutor, and not even the judge know this fundamental question of what punishment is appropriate and available if these people were to plead guilty. For that fact to come up years and years after these commissions have been in existence is yet another example of the sorry state of justice as it's being played out in these commissions.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide of flags and Camp Justice sign \u003cbr/\u003eNew York City, New York - 8 December 2008\u003cbr/\u003e11.  SOUNDBITE:  (English) Stacy Sullivan, Human Rights Watch Counterterrorism Advisor:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The idea that they would plead guilty so that they could be executed before Obama comes to power makes sense because they've said in the past that they wanted to become martyrs and be executed. They would prefer to do that in a system that's unfair so they could make the United States look bad as opposed to doing that in a federal court system where they would actually have a fair trial.\"\u003cbr/\u003eGuantanamo Bay, Cuba - 8 December 2008\u003cbr/\u003e12. Tilt up to US flag\u003cbr/\u003eKhalid Sheikh Mohammed said on Monday he would confess to masterminding the September 11, 2001 attacks, throwing his death-penalty trial into disarray and shocking victims' relatives who watched from behind a glass partition.\u003cbr/\u003eFour other men also abandoned their defences, in effect daring the Pentagon to grant their wish for martyrdom.\u003cbr/\u003eThe judge ordered lawyers to advise him by January 4 whether the Pentagon can apply the death penalty, which military prosecutors are seeking, without a jury trial.\u003cbr/\u003eIn an about-face that appeared to take the court by complete surprise, the five men announced they were abandoning their attempts to mount a vigorous defence and instead requested \"an immediate hearing session to announce our confessions.\"\u003cbr/\u003eMohammed, who has already told a military panel he was the mastermind of the September 11 attacks, said he has no faith in the judge, his Pentagon-appointed lawyers or US President George W. Bush.\u003cbr/\u003eSporting a chest-length gray beard, Mohammed told the judge in English: \"I don't trust you.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe five defendants said they decided on November 4, the day Obama was elected, to abandon their defences against the capital charges. \u003cbr/\u003eObama opposes the trials and has pledged to close the detention centre, which holds some 250 men.\u003cbr/\u003eEven if trials are held, it is unlikely any would be completed before Obama takes office on January 20. \u003cbr/\u003eStill, the US military is pressing forward with the case until it receives orders to the contrary.\u003cbr/\u003eHowever, Monday's developments didn't mean the defendants had repented.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I reaffirm my allegiance to Osama bin Laden,\" Ramzi Binalshibh blurted out in Arabic at the end of the hearing. \u003cbr/\u003eThe formal confessions were delayed, however, when the judge said two of the defendants couldn't enter pleas until the court determines their mental competency. \u003cbr/\u003eThe other three said they would wait as well.\u003cbr/\u003eDefendant Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali said the plea was based on \"joint strategy\".\u003cbr/\u003eIn a letter read aloud by the judge, the defendants implied they want to plead guilty, but did not specify whether they will admit to specific charges.\u003cbr/\u003eTheir letter was so unexpected that the judge, Army Colonel Stephen Henley, was unsure how to proceed. \u003cbr/\u003eHe noted that the law specifies that only defendants unanimously convicted by a jury can be sentenced to death in the tribunals. \u003cbr/\u003eNo jury has been seated.\u003cbr/\u003eNine victims' relatives watched the proceedings, the first time relatives of the 2,975 people killed in the attacks have been allowed to observe the war-crimes trials. \u003cbr/\u003eHuman rights observers said the judge's uncertainty about sentencing highlights problems with America's first war-crimes trial since World War II, and is further evidence that they should be shut down, as Obama has pledged to do.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Executive Director of the Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Anthony Romero, compared the proceedings to a \"circus\". \u003cbr/\u003eHe urged the judge to delay the trials until the Obama administration could move them into the regular US courts and try the defendants under traditional rules. \u003cbr/\u003eDiane Amann, a Law Professor at the University of California-Davis, is in Guantanamo Bay representing the National Institute of Military Justice, a Washington DC-based non-profit group opposed to the current military tribunals.\u003cbr/\u003eShe said there still appeared to be fundamental flaws in the current system.\u003cbr/\u003eMohammed, Ali and three others, Ramzi Binalshibh, Mustafa Ahmed al Hawsawi and Walid bin Attash, were charged earlier this year with conspiring to kill civilians.\u003cbr/\u003eThey face 2,973 counts of murder, one for each person killed when al Qaida militants crashed hijacked airliners into 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