Maryland-educated Majid Khan, 32, at his guilty plea before Army Col. James Pohl, the chief military commissions judge, at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo on Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012 in this drawing by pool sketch artist Janet Hamlin, cleared after a more-than three-hour showdown with a court security officer. JANET HAMLIN/SKETCH ARTIST / McClatchy Newspapers

Patricia Pond, 62, of California, speaks to reporters with her husband at her side after watching Pakistani captive Majid Khan admit to war crimes at Guantanamo, including conspiracy in the August 2003 truck bombing of a Marriott hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia. Pond, badly wounded in the attack, said Khan's potential 19- to 25-year sentence "seems fair." CAROL ROSENBERG/MIAMI HERALD