The process is definitely the punishment.
[IsraelTimes] Senior al-Qaeda figure accused of developing and directing plot to crash hijacked airliners; trial was previously scheduled in 2021 but later canceled, and could be delayed againA US military judge on Wednesday set a summer 2028 trial date for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three others accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The trial is scheduled to begin June 5, 2028, 18 months later than the January 2027 start that prosecutors had requested. The additional time is needed to resolve pretrial disputes, including disagreements about what evidence can be presented at trial, Air Force Lt. Col. Michael A. Schrama wrote in his ruling.
The US military and successive administrations have struggled for more than two decades to bring to justice the man charged with planning one of the deadliest attacks ever on the United States.
The 2028 trial depends on the case meeting deadlines and milestones along the way and it could again be delayed. A trial was previously scheduled in 2021 but later canceled.
Mohammed is accused of developing and directing the plot to crash hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Another of the hijacked planes flew into a field in Pennsylvania. He faces trial alongside three alleged accomplices: Walid bin Attash, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Mustafa al-Hawsawi.
They are among the last of the detainees held at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.A federal appeals court last year threw out an agreement that would have allowed Mohammed to plead guilty in a deal sparing him the risk of execution for al-Qaeda’s 2001 attacks.
That deal stipulated life sentences without parole for Mohammed and two of his co-defendants. It also would have obligated the men to answer any lingering questions that families of the victims have about the attacks. But after negotiating the deal for two years, former US president Joe
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’s administration repudiated it.
There is a major item missing from the news that a military judge has finally set a 2028 trial date for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three co-defendants held at Guantanamo Bay.
— Gerald Posner (@geraldposner) August 27, 2026
Look at who isn't on the list.
Abu Zubaydah.
Zubaydah was shot, wounded and captured… pic.twitter.com/ppcwVDLxKc
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