Be careful what you ask for

KSM, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, 

at the time of his arrest. Courtesy of Abdul Arts.

Here he is depicted in a recent courtroom sketch by Janet Hamlin.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, otherwise known as KSM, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, and four co-defendants want the U.S. military tribunal to accept their guilty pleas. They told the judge that since  they don't trust any of their representatives - because they are American, of course - they don't want to waste the courts time and should just be convicted.

Observers say that what they are doing here is trying to challenge the U.S. to turn them into martyrs by putting them to death.

Will this work?  Will people really will be impressed by such martyrdom? If you are somebody who would buy into this program, email me and tell me why.  Or alternatively, just turn yourself into your local law enforcement agency.