WASHINGTON: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sep 11, 2001 assaults on the USA, will go on trial earlier than a US army courtroom in June 2028, an official stated Thursday (Aug 27).
A spokesman for the US army courtroom at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the place Mohammed is incarcerated, stated the trial would start on Jun 5, 2028.
Mohammed, often known as “KSM”, was thought of one in every of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’s prime lieutenants earlier than he was captured in March 2003 in Pakistan.
He was imprisoned in secret CIA amenities for 3 years earlier than arriving on the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay in 2006.
His trial has been repeatedly delayed and a plea deal that will have seen the loss of life penalty taken off the desk was withdrawn final yr.
The skilled engineer – who has stated he masterminded the 9/11 assaults “from A to Z” – was concerned in a string of main plots towards the USA, the place he attended college.
His deadliest was the 9/11 operation, which noticed almost 3,000 folks killed after hijacked planes rammed into the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, with one other crashing in a Pennsylvania discipline.
Mohammed additionally claims to have helped within the 1993 World Commerce Heart bombing that killed six folks and to have personally beheaded US journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002.
The USA makes use of Guantanamo, an remoted naval base, to carry militants captured throughout the “Conflict on Terror” that adopted the Sep 11, 2001 assaults in a bid to maintain the defendants from claiming rights underneath US legislation.
The ability held roughly 800 prisoners at its peak, however they’ve since slowly been despatched to different nations. A small fraction of that quantity stays.
