It should have been the start of catharsis: justice would be seen to be done when the man who had boasted of masterminding the September nth attacks on America was made to answer for his crimes. Instead, the arraignment hearing of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other al-Qaeda suspects became another instalment in the long-running farce-or tragedy-of America's prison camp at Guantanamo Bay.rn"KSM", as security types usually refer to the camp's most famous inmate, was chatting, laughing and reciting Koranic verses throughout the proceedings. He told the military judge that he welcomed the prospect of a death sentence. "I have been looking to be a martyr [for] a long time."rnThe Geneva Conventions, which America belatedly recognises as applying to the camp's "unlawful enemy combatants", protect prisoners from being paraded in public, KSM had to approve an artist's sketch of him in court, but complained that his nose had been drawn too big. The artist agreed it was "a little beaky" and rushed off to change it.
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