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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed complains like a baby over courtroom sketch

by @ 6:13 pm on June 5, 2008. Filed under Guantanamo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Military Commissions, al Qaeda

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CBS and the AP report:

No photographers were allowed inside the courtroom for the first appearance of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged coconspirators on war crimes charges. So it fell to artist Janet Hamlin to provide the world with the first image of the al Qaeda kingpin since his capture in Pakistan in 2003.

Her rendering was reviewed to make sure it didn’t include classified information, and wound up in Mohammed’s hands when his defense team was given a look, said Pentagon spokesman Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon.

Mohammed wasn’t pleased.

“I heard he said I should compare it to the FBI photo of him,” Hamlin said, clutching a copy of the much-publicized capture photo that showed Mohammed in a T-shirt looking disheveled and unshaven.

Asked if Mohammed had a point, Hamlin said: “I agree totally” before rushing back to the courtroom to downsize his nose.

She missed the blood on his hands yet there are limits to what an eraser can do.

Update: Allahpundit at HotAir.com has more.

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One Response to “Khalid Sheikh Mohammed complains like a baby over courtroom sketch”

  1. merle says:

    The “artist” forgot to add the horns coming out of his head and the forked tail.

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