February 15, 2012
Former Baltimore Resident Charged with War Crimes
A Pakistani man who grew up in Baltimore and who is being held at Guantanamo Bay has been charged with war crimes:
Majid Khan, a Pakistani citizen and a former legal resident of the United States, is accused of conspiring with Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, to conduct a series of follow-up operations in the United States. These included targeting underground gasoline storage tanks, according to the military.I hope he gets the death penalty.Khan, a graduate of a suburban Baltimore high school near where his parents ran a gas station, is also accused of donning a suicide vest and planning to assassinate former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf.
