2024-08-03 01:13:54
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has revoked a sentencing agreement with the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks. Given the “importance of this decision,” Austin said in a memo on Friday (local time) that responsibility for the case rests with him. The deal negotiated with alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co-defendants has been criticized by relatives of the victims.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been held in the notorious U.S. Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba for many years, will avoid the death penalty through the agreement, according to U.S. media reports. On September 11, 2001, the most serious terrorist attack to date occurred in the United States, killing approximately 3,000 people. Islamic terrorists crashed three hijacked passenger planes into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon near Washington. The fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is believed to be the main architect of the attack and is also said to have overseen communications and financing for the project.
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