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In a file picture Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, is seen shortly after his seize throughout a raid in Pakistan Saturday March 1, 2003, on this picture obtained by the Related Press.
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Accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and two different males charged with plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, terror assaults by al-Qaeda have agreed to plead responsible within the military commissions course of, the Pentagon stated Wednesday.
The phrases of the plea offers for the three males, who’ve been in custody since 2003, weren’t launched, however they’re anticipated to plead responsible to some costs, and probably keep away from loss of life sentences consequently.
The Workplace of Navy Fee stated the defendants will enter their pleas as early as subsequent week on the U.S. navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Along with Mohammed, the opposite males anticipated to plead responsible are Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin ‘Attash, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi.
The New York Times reported that the chief prosecutor within the case, Rear Admiral Aaron Rugh, in a letter to 9/11 sufferer members of the family, had written, “In change for the elimination of the loss of life penalty as a doable punishment, these three accused have agreed to plead responsible to the entire charged offenses, together with the homicide of the two,976 individuals listed within the cost sheet.”
This Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009 sketch reviewed by the U.S. navy, exhibits, from prime left, Khalid Shaikh Mohammad; Walid bin Attash; Ramzi bin al Shibh; Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, often known as Ammar al Baluchi, and Mustafa al Hawsawi attend a listening to on the U.S. Navy Commissions court docket for warfare crimes on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. On Friday, Aug. 30, 2019, a navy choose set Jan. 11, 2021 for the beginning of the long-stalled warfare crimes trial of the 5 males being held on the Guantanamo Bay jail on costs of planning and aiding the Sept. 11 terrorist assaults. (
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The prosecution towards the lads and different defendants being held at Guantanamo Bay has dragged on for greater than 16 years. The lengthy delay is largely the results of authorized disputes over the admissibility of proof obtained from the defendants whereas they have been tortured in CIA detention websites.
Virtually 3,000 individuals have been killed within the Sept. 11 assaults, when 4 groups of terrorists hijacked 4 airliners in the USA, flying two of them into the Twin Towers on the World Commerce Heart in New York Metropolis, and the third aircraft into the Pentagon constructing.
The fourth hijacked aircraft crashed in a area close to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers tried to interrupt into the cockpit.
his Monday, Dec. 8, 2008 courtroom drawing by artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by the U.S. navy, exhibits Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, heart, and co-defendant Walid Bin Attash, left, attending a pre-trial session at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. Mohammed is the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, assaults. His trial date has been postponed time and again. He stays at Guantanamo, indefinitely.
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