Over at the Corner, Andy McCarthy points to this Politico story about a recent order by a D.C. District Court giving Gitmo detainee Abdul Raheem Ghulam Rabbani the right to ask 9/11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) some questions about Rabbani’s role in al Qaeda. The details of how these questions will be posed to KSM are unclear, but apparently Rabbani’s lawyers will be allowed to submit a list of written queries. Who is Abdul Raheem Ghulam Rabbani? Both he and his brother are notorious al Qaeda safehouse operators who worked for KSM and other senior al Qaeda operatives.

The 9/11 Commission noted in its final report that after the muscle hijackers were trained in Afghanistan — training that included how to storm a cockpit and the butchering of a “sheep and a camel with a knife to prepare to use knives during the hijackings” — they made their way to the Rabbani brothers’ safehouse in Karachi, Pakistan.