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Judge Lets 9/11 Defendants Urge Detainee to Appear
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"I agree with my brother Sheik Mohammed," said Tawfiq bin Attash, another of the defendants. "We don't have to do any fight with Mr. Ramzi. He doesn't trust anyone in government, but he does trust us."
"I appreciate that input," the judge said.
Kohlmann refused to sanction a meeting but did agree to let Mohammed and the others write to Binalshibh. Both the defense and the prosecution accepted the judge's proposal.
After the hearing, each of the four defendants wrote a short letter and each signed the others' letters, lawyers said.
"They were really plain vanilla," Lachelier said of the letters. "They were communicating they want to stay together."
The judge also said that Binalshibh should be asked again to meet with his attorneys. But Kohlmann refused to let Lachelier meet him in his cell, which is at a secret location here. Instead, Lachelier said, Binalshibh would be have to be transported, hooded and shackled, in a van with blacked-out windows to any meeting. Lachelier said that may add to Binalshibh's reluctance to meet her.
The prosecution refused to discuss the issue. "I cannot talk about security-based procedures that govern access to these detainees," Morris said.
