Brett Eagleson, whose father, Bruce Eagleson, was killed when one of the hijacked planes destroyed the south tower of the World Trade Center, called the events that forced the sidelining of al-Shibh’s prosecution “another example of the lack of justice that the 9/11 community has received at the hands of our own government.”
“They wrongfully tortured these individuals. We don’t stand for torture. Because of that we’re denied a trial. We’re denied true justice,” said Eagleson, who leads a group of victims’ families pushing the U.S. to release more of the documents of its investigations into the attacks.
The behaviour of the US post 9/11 is in large part responsible for the mess we’re in right now. They made it very clear that they don’t give a fuck about their own rules and since then everybody what had been encouraged to do the same. In the nineties the US had at least some credibility as a moral authority. Since then, whenever Western countries try to call out dictatorial regimes for human rights abuses, they are just seen as hypocrites.