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Military trial date set for alleged mastermind of Sept. 11 attacks
NBC News • • general
Key Points:
- A military judge has set the trial date for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, to begin in June 2028, alongside co-defendants Walid bin Attash, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, and Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi.
- Mohammed is charged with orchestrating the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that targeted the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, resulting in nearly 3,000 deaths.
- The trial date was delayed from an initial proposed start in January 2027, following a federal appeals court's rejection of a plea deal that would have spared Mohammed the death penalty.
- Mohammed has been detained at Guantánamo Bay since 2006, after his capture in Pakistan in 2003, with prosecution efforts complicated by legal challenges and disputes over alleged torture at CIA secret prisons.
- The case marks a prolonged and complex legal process testing the military commissions system established during the Obama administration.
