In today’s Washington Times we read this:

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States that killed nearly 3,000 people, told a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba on Thursday that he wanted to be executed and become a martyr. “This is what I wish. I wanted to be a martyr for a long time,” Mr. Mohammed told Marine Col. Ralph Kohlmann, chief military judge for the tribunal, during the death penalty trial for him and four others accused in the attacks using hijacked commercial jetliners that destroyed the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers and crashed into the Pentagon.

Let’s all hope we can accommodate Mr. Mohammed in his earnest request. And who said we can’t find common ground with jihadists?