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8/30/2019

Trial Date Finally Set for Alleged 9/11 Mastermind

Filed under: General — Dana @ 5:39 pm



[guest post by Dana]

A trial date has finally been set for the accused Khalid Sheikh Mohammed:

Alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and four other accused plotters will go on trial on Jan. 11, 2021, a U.S. military judge said Friday, according to the Office of Military Commissions.

KSM, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin ’Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi all face the death penalty for their alleged roles in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

Mohammad and his co-defendants are charged with crimes including terrorism, hijacking and 2,976 counts of murder for their alleged roles planning and providing logistical support to the Sept. 11 plot. They could get the death penalty if convicted at the military commission…

The capital case trial will take place at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The particulars:

The 2021 trial date — which will come more than 19 years after the attacks occurred — was included in a trial conduct order issued by the presiding judge in the case, Air Force Col. W. Shane Cohen, who set a series of deadlines for the case.

The order also includes a list of materials the prosecutors must provide defense lawyers before Oct. 1.

Cohen, who is the third judge since 2012 to preside over the the long-delayed case, took over the case in June.

Mohammed’s lawyers believe that their client has suffered brain damage and therefore should not face the death penalty:

Mohammed’s lawyers have argued brain scans prove the former al-Qaida leader suffered traumatic brain injuries at the hands of the CIA, which could cause the court to spare him the death penalty. They have been seeking for years to conduct more studies.

This: Witnesses have died, lawyers have grown old and victims’ families patience has been sorely tested.

(Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back.)

–Dana

16 Responses to “Trial Date Finally Set for Alleged 9/11 Mastermind”

  1. Twenty long years…

    Dana (fdf131)

  2. Suggestion: Stage an escape for them, where they will unfortunately be shot trying to escape.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  3. Give them the option to swim to Florida. During Dorian.

    Edoc118 (184e68)

  4. Yay.

    nk (dbc370)

  5. R.I.P. James Leavelle

    Led Oswald to Ruby and a Pulitizer Prize winning photo finish in ’63.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  6. That’s Leavelle on the left… https://imgur.com/gallery/t6I0xTx

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  7. About time.

    Nic (896fdf)

  8. The Geneva Conventions allow illegal enemy combatants to remain under lock and key until cessation of hostilities, no trial necessary. Far as I know, there is still a War Against Militant Islamism, with al Qaeda being one of those international organizations still at war with us, which means I’m just fine with KSM staying in a concrete box indefinitely without trial.

    Paul Montagu (a2342d)

  9. No way justice should take for mf ever to play out.

    mg (8cbc69)

  10. To follow up on Col. Haiku’s suggestion; we know a prison in New York that has a series of conveniently malfunctioning cameras.

    Ingot9455 (37e41d)

  11. Even prison justice can take forever:
    http://www.foxnews.com/us/robert-f-kennedy-assassin-stabbed-in-san-diego-prison:

    urbanleftbehind (e21cfb)

  12. Holder had the pleas canceled in 2009, should have just given them doses of the oxy purdue was pushing his other covington client was puahing

    Narciso (da72b4)

  13. RIP Jim Langer, one of the greatest of all time.

    mg (8cbc69)

  14. David Chappelle/2020

    mg (8cbc69)

  15. RIP Valerie Harper

    harkin (58d012)

  16. Here are a couple more recent examples, of our legal/justice system – that used to be
    called ‘the best legal system in the world.’ GLZ.

    https://www.theblaze.com/news/court-reverses-sole-conviction-in-the-death-of-kate-steinle

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/robert-f-kennedy-assassin-sirhan-sirhan-stabbed-in-prison/ar-AAGBzAs

    Gary L. Zerman (a1521c)


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