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Judge sets June 2028 trial date for alleged Sept. 11 mastermind
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Key Points:
- A U.S. military judge has set a trial date of June 5, 2028, for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three others accused of orchestrating the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
- The trial date is delayed by 18 months from the prosecutors' requested start in January 2027 to allow resolution of pretrial disputes, including evidence disagreements.
- The case has faced extensive delays over two decades, with a previously scheduled 2021 trial canceled, and the 2028 trial could still be postponed.
- Mohammed is charged with planning the attacks involving hijacked planes targeting the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a crash in Pennsylvania, alongside alleged accomplices Walid bin Attash, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, and Mustafa al-Hawsawi.
- These defendants are among the last detainees at Guantanamo Bay, and a recent appeals court decision nullified a plea deal that would have spared Mohammed from the death penalty.
