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9/11 Mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Faces 2028 Trial

A military judge ordered that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three other alleged terrorists held in Guantánamo Bay will stand trial in 2028. The order covers four defendants, including Mohammed and three alleged co-conspirators. In a decision issued on Wednesday, Lt. Col. Michael Schrama set the start of the proceedings for 5 June 2028.

The ruling was made ahead of an important public anniversary of the attacks, which were carried out on 11 September 2001. The judge’s order established the trial start date after prosecutors and the defence had argued over timing.

Timing Ahead Of The 25th Anniversary

Schrama’s order came just two weeks before the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The strikes killed nearly 3,000 people. The decision placed the case on a timetable that begins in June 2028, rather than in the earlier part of 2027.

Defendants Kept At Guantánamo Since 2003

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, described as the head plotter, and three of his alleged co-conspirators have been held at the US military detention facility in Cuba since 2003. The men have remained in Guantánamo custody as the long-delayed matter has worked its way through the pre-trial phase. Wednesday’s order fixes the date when the military commission will begin hearing the case.

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Prosecutors Asked For January 2027

Government prosecutors had requested that the trial be set for January 2027. Schrama rejected that bid and instead scheduled the start date for 5 June 2028. With the date now fixed for mid-2028, the government and defence will proceed under the timetable set by the military judge.

Although prosecutors had asked for an earlier start, the judge set the trial for June 5, 2028. Mohammed and the three other alleged co-conspirators remain held at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. Their detention began in 2003, and continues while the military commission prepares for the ordered start date. The decision therefore fixes the next major step in the proceedings, moving the case beyond the January 2027 schedule proposed by the government and closer to the June 2028 date set by Schrama for hearings before the military judge.

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FlorC Platinum Member

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Swift justice , 23 years waiting for a trail for the fall guys.

candide Star Member

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A Salafi jihadist. Which country has been supporting the international diffusion of Salafism for decades?

rudi49jr Platinum Member

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2 hours ago, candide said:

A Salafi jihadist. Which country has been supporting the international diffusion of Salafism for decades?

More importantly, which country is Trump trying to close a nuclear deal with? Including uranium enrichment, by the way.

Jimbolkb Senior Member

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in the meantime

NY has a moslim communist mayor

Jim Blue Platinum Member

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Are you sure Jim

Communist = Aetheist = hanging in

some Arab countries !

Packer Gold Member

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16 hours ago, FlorC said:

the fall guys.

The Fall Guys.

WTC1 and WTC2.

Literally.

Let's not forget WTC7 that collapsed 7.5 hours later despite not being hit. 🙂

3000 deaths?

3000 Americans died DAILY during the height of Covid.

Yagoda Star Member

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18 hours ago, FlorC said:

Swift justice , 23 years waiting for a trail for the fall guys.

fall guys for who lol

Roadsternut Gold Member

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17 hours ago, koolkarl said:

Why does it take so long? Should have been executed a long time ago.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s trial has been delayed for so long largely because the United States chose to prosecute him through the specially created Guantánamo military commission system rather than an established federal court, while also having subjected him to coercive CIA interrogation, creating years of litigation over whether his statements and evidence derived from them can legally be used. The case has been slowed by disputes over classified evidence, repeated changes of judges and lawyers, the logistical difficulties of conducting a capital trial at Guantánamo, political battles over whether to try him in civilian court, and more recently the collapse of plea agreements that could have ended the case. In effect, many of the delays are the result of the extraordinary detention, interrogation and prosecution system the U.S. created for the defendants. Its what happens when you make up law on the hoof. If he had been held under more conventional circumstances, its likely this would have been over a decade ago.

If a conventional arrest and detention process had been followed, he would have been convicted by 2007. The American system though encourages repetitive appeals leading to decades on death row. The superior British approach, when it had capital punishment, was a single appeal (there was later a sort of second appeal), which generally meant that sentence was carried out within 3 months of sentence being passed.

Like all on death row, should he be found guilty, he should be executed in public, at a random street site, with members of the public drawn at random, by mail and by door to door enforcement to attend and witness, much like jury duty. The execution method should be by extra long drop hanging, with the act being performed by a randomly selected member of the public, under the supervision of a suitably qualified officer. Extra long drop increases the likelihood of decapitation (partial decapitation happened in the case of Saddam Hussein, after the Iraqi prison authorities deliberately set up a longer than normal drop), saving the need for a doctor to pronounce dead. Should the condemned survive, he should be hauled up and hanged again. Hoods should be prohibited. A country that supports the death penalty should also participate in it, but volunteering to join in should be prohibited, in the interests of public decency and to discourage ghouls.

SiSePuede419 Ruby Member

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Hey! I've watched some of his porno films twenty-thirty years ago.

I think they called him The Hedgehog. 😲

LarryLEB Advanced Member

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If the pretrial phase takes 23 years, how @!*&**@ long can we expect the trial to take?

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