Where the Case Against the Alleged 9/11 Plotters Stands 25 Years After the Attack
A military judge excluded a key 2007 confession after ruling it was tainted by torture, deepening doubts that the long-delayed case will ever reach trial.
- A military judge at Guantanamo Bay set June 5, 2028, as the trial date for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, following the collapse of a 2024 plea deal.
- Legal delays stem from Mohammed's treatment in CIA custody, including 183 sessions of waterboarding; a judge ruled prosecutors cannot use his 2007 FBI confession because statements were tainted by alleged 'enhanced interrogation techniques.'
- Former Army Cyber Command legal adviser Lebowitz described the military-commission process as a 'traveling circus,' noting that judges, prosecutors, and families must charter flights to Guantanamo for every hearing.
- Gordon Felt, president of Families of Flight 93, expressed 'significant frustration' over the ongoing pre-trial phase, saying after 25 years the goal is "to move the case into the courtroom and reach a verdict."
- Despite the scheduled 2028 start, legal experts predict the case may never conclude due to 'endless litigation' over military commissions' procedures; some former prosecutors doubt the tribunal can overcome the maze of legal issues.
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‘Open sore’: Families face agonizing wait as 9/11 mastermind's trial pushed nearly 27 years after attacks
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three 9/11 co-defendants face a June 2028 military commission trial at Guantánamo Bay, nearly 27 years after the terrorist attack that killed nearly 3,000.
La Prensa Latina Media
(LPL/BBC) – The United States celebrates this Friday the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with a series of acts across the country. That Tuesday of 2001, a group of suicide bombers hijacked commercial planes and crashed them into the Twin Towers of New York and the Pentagon in Washington, causing [...]
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SIC NotíciasOsama bin Laden became the face of Al-Qaeda after September 11, 2001, but is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed the alleged architect of the attacks that forever marked the history of humanity. The trial of the one who was one of the main members of Al-Qaeda is now scheduled for June 2028, almost 27 years after the tragedy that stopped the world.
US trial remains elusive for top terror suspect
Two decades after US authorities locked Khalid Sheikh Mohammed away at a military detention center in Cuba, the purported mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks sometimes seems barely any closer to being put on trial than the day he arrived.A judge recently set a 2028 date for Mohammed to
Trial Remains Elusive For Purported Mastermind Accused Of Plotting 9/11 Attacks
NEW YORK (AP) — Two decades after U.S. authorities locked Khalid Sheikh Mohammed away at a military detention center in Cuba, the purported mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks sometimes seems barely any closer to being put on trial than the day he arrived. A judge recently set a 2028 date for Mohammed to finally […]
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