2024-07-31 23:14:59
The mastermind and other co-defendants of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks hope to reach a deal with justice and plead guilty, according to the U.S. government. The U.S. Department of Defense said Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other suspects agreed to such an agreement. The exact details have not been made public. Further proceedings remained unclear initially.
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 chief architect of the attack and is also said to have overseen communications and financing for the project.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was arrested in Pakistan in 2003. He was then interrogated by the U.S. Secret Service, the CIA. He was tortured during interrogation, according to a U.S. Senate report. In 2006, he was transferred to the U.S. Guantánamo Bay prison. There, he will face a court-martial for his role in the September 11 attacks. However, the proceedings against him and several co-defendants were delayed for years.
The prisoner of war camp is located at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. At one time nearly 800 people were imprisoned there. The camp was established under Republican President George W. Bush in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States to detain suspected Islamic terrorists without trial. Human rights groups have long called for the plant to be closed. However, a small number of prisoners are still held there.
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