As a citizen of the US, he is entitled to a jury trial.
If we can find fourteen (12 + 2 alternates) citizens who feel they wouldn't mind having themselves, their spouse or children murdered by a terrorist, he could even go free. Allah-hu-fuckin'-Akbar!
Military tribunals are for non-citizens suspected of being enemy agents, and are entirely appropriate for that purpose.
SaintSatan - I just called Dan Rather, and he told me I was most definately NOT brainwashed. I don't even wash behind my ears!
But seriously, SS - what constitutes "brainwashing"? Is education brainwashing? Is religious conversion brainwashing? Does your local jeep dealer brainwash you before he sells you a new car? Does the guy at the 7-11 brainwash you into buying two chili cheesedog gut-bombs? What are our own thoughts?
My point, I think - let me check with Dan Rather - is that the term "brainwashing" originally had a specific meaning, and that meaning has been broadened to the point where it means nothing. Soon all words will mean the same thing, y'know?
Does each person have to invent the wheel for themselves to avoid the stigma of being "brainwashed"?
I wonder how the psychiatrist's patients behave AFTER the good doctor has 'de-hypnotized" them. How are they different? Well, their wallets are now MUCH lighter...