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Khalid silence stalls hearing

Terror beast Khalid Sheik Mohammed is at it again.

The accused 9/11 mastermind delayed pretrial hearings at Guantanamo Bay by refusing to respond to questions from the judge.

Once court got under way, much of yesterday’s session dealt with the proceedings’ secrecy and whether there could be an open-court discussion of the time KSM and his four co-defendants were detained in CIA “black sites.”

At one point, the military commission judge, Col. James Pohl, grew frustrated by government censors in control of the court’s audio feed.,