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| US appeals court cancels plea deal for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed |
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Using it for migrants is the latest symbolic move in Trump's unprecedented crackdown on illegal migration that began the moment he entered office last week.
Trump said the facility with 30,000 beds will be used to keep the 'worst of the worst' migrants under lock and key, and noted how 'tough' it is to escape. It will include suspects from countries he doesn't trust will detain them when they are deported. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem floated the plan earlier on Wednesday, but Trump has now put the idea into motion.
Trump added: 'We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back. 'So we're going to send them out to Guantanamo Bay. This will double our capacity immediately, and tough. That's a tough - that's a tough place to get out of.' The George W. Bush administration opened the facility in 2002 to detain 'illegal enemy combatants' during the 'War on Terror.' Ultimately, successive administrations have negotiated a series of arrangements to transfer prisoners out of the facility since then, amid public and congressional pressure to close it. The population has now dwindled to just 15 after the most recent series of transfers. Among them is 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who agreed to plead guilty after negotiations with military lawyers, avoiding a potential death sentence, and setting off yet another legal saga. Trump himself ordered his then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to keep Guantanamo open in 2018, reversing an Obama administration order. Related: Guantanamo Bay: 2025-01-28 Jakarta accepting that key Bali bombing suspect is Indonesian marks a reversal Guantanamo Bay: 2025-01-28 CIA declassified plan to carry out terrorist attacks against Americans Guantanamo Bay: 2025-01-22 Islamic Emirate Confirms Prisoner Exchange with the US Related: Kristi Noem 01/29/2025 Senate Democrats block legislation to sanction ICC over Israel arrest warrants Kristi Noem 01/29/2025 Homeland Security busts 5 'career criminals' on first day of NYC raids Kristi Noem 01/27/2025 Trump's celebrates with three word message America as Kristi Noem is confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security | ||||
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| 9/11 terrorists to be spared death penalty after judge shoots down Pentagon''s bid to nix plea deals | |
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| [NYPOST] Plea deals for three murderous Moslems behind the 9/11 attacks are back in play after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin lost his bid to nix the disturbing agreements that would spare them the death penalty A military appeals court on Monday night ruled against Austin's order this summer nullifying plea deals reached with Khalid Sheikh Mohammad  ...Mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. He was captured in Faisalabad, Pakistain in 2002 and interned at Guantanamo..., Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi. The terrorists' defense attorneys argued that the secretary did not have the authority to overturn the agreements after they were already approved by the top authority of the Guantanamo Bay courts in July. They further claimed that Austin's order was unlawful interference in the case. The move clears the way for Mohammad, the criminal mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, and his co-conspirators to plead guilty in a hearing next week. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... Austin retains the ability to appeal the decision. Reps for the Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Prosecutors offered the deal to bring about an end to the pretrial court proceedings that have dragged on for more than a decade. The decision comes after a lower court in November ruled that Austin's order came too late — and that the act was beyond his scope of authority. ''We agree with the military judge that the secretary did not have authority to revoke respondents' existing PTAs because the respondents had started performance of the PTAs,'' the three-judge panel said. The agreements were originally signed by Pentagon official Susan K. Escallier, whom Austin appointed to be in charge of military commissions. While the initial blow of the plea deals shook many 9/11 victims' loved ones and survivors, some have told The Post that the on-off nature of their status has put them through an emotional roller coaster.
 According to the publication, on December 30, the military appeals court overturned the order of US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who in August canceled a pre-trial deal between the prosecution and three terrorists - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi - to plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence.The case of conspiracy with the hijackers has been in the pre-trial stage since 2012. The defendants are suspected of helping the terrorists who carried out the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York on September 11, 2001. As reported by the Regnum news agency, the two towers of the World Trade Center collapsed after terrorists flew two hijacked passenger planes into them. As a result, over 2.6 thousand people died. A previously unknown video of the destruction of the World Trade Center towers on September 11 has emerged. The footage was published by Japanese photographer Kei Sugimoto. In September 2023, two more victims of the terrorist attacks were identified. The total number of identified victims of the terrorist attacks is 1,649 people. Another 1,104 victims remain unidentified. The names of the identified victims, a man and a woman, are kept secret at the request of their relatives. The victims were identified through DNA analysis of their remains. Related: Lloyd Austin 12/25/2024 Malaysians guilty of roles in 2002 Bali bombings released from Guantanamo Lloyd Austin 12/23/2024 DOD's Deception: General's admission on U.S. troops in Syria latest whopper to mislead Americans Lloyd Austin 12/21/2024 Palestinians sue US over failure to evacuate American citizens from Gaza Related: Khalid Sheikh Mohammad 08/03/2024 Lloyd Austin revokes plea deal with 9/11 plotters Khalid Sheikh Mohammad 08/01/2024 9/11 mastermind KSM and two other terrorists awaiting trial on Guantanamo Bay strike plea deals Khalid Sheikh Mohammad 03/16/2022 Pentagon prosecutors working on deal to SAVE 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his accomplices from death penalty before his Guantanamo Bay trial Related: Walid bin Attash 09/12/2022 'They don't want closure, they want justice!' Fury from 9/11 families as it's revealed five Guantanamo Bay prisoners accused of planning terror attack are negotiating for PLEA DEALS that would take death penalty off table Walid bin Attash 03/16/2022 Pentagon prosecutors working on deal to SAVE 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his accomplices from death penalty before his Guantanamo Bay trial Walid bin Attash 09/01/2019 Death penalty trial date for men accused of planning 9/11 is finally set Related: Mustafa al-Hawsawi 10/18/2024 Navy SEAL who killed Osama Bin Laden issues stern warning to Biden and his successor after Israel eliminated Hamas leader Mustafa al-Hawsawi 03/16/2022 Pentagon prosecutors working on deal to SAVE 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his accomplices from death penalty before his Guantanamo Bay trial Mustafa al-Hawsawi 09/01/2019 Death penalty trial date for men accused of planning 9/11 is finally set Related: Guantanamo Bay: 2024-12-25 Malaysians guilty of roles in 2002 Bali bombings released from Guantanamo Guantanamo Bay: 2024-11-07 Military judge reinstates plea deals for 9/11 mastermind KSM, two other terrorists in shock ruling Guantanamo Bay: 2024-08-04 Holder: KSM would be just a memory if my 2009 decision had been followed | |
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| Military judge reinstates plea deals for 9/11 mastermind KSM, two other terrorists in shock ruling |
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 [NY Post] A military judge ruled Wednesday that plea deals sparing accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other terrorists the death penalty must remain in effect.The stunning move comes three months after Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin revoked the shocking plea deals handed out to Mohammed and two alleged accomplices by the Office of Military Commissions in July. The order, issued by Air Force Col. and Judge Matthew McCall in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was first reported by the Associated Press and has not yet been posted publicly. Family members of the victims of the heinous terror attack, which killed nearly 3,000, were outraged by the judge’s ruling. "I am livid that this judge overturned the decision and is allowing these defendants to take a plea deal," retired police officer, Jimmy Smith, whose wife Moira was killed on Sept. 11, 2001, told The Post. "They committed the highest crime in this country and they should receive the worst punishment which in this case is the death penalty," Smith argued. "Also I don’t believe in coincidences, they waited to release this decision until after the election. They overturned it before to help the Democrats in the election." Dan D’Allara, twin brother of NYPD officer John D’Allara who was killed on 9/11, told The Post that President-elect Donald Trump should use his executive powers to ensure Mohammed and his accomplices are put to death. "The first Executive Order President Trump should sign is an Executive Order of Execution for the 5 admitted 9/11 plotters", D’Allara said. "They are cowards and they killed a lot of innocent people that day and are continuing to kill people going forward." New York City Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry described Wednesday’s ruling as "shameful" and called for an immediate fix. "This is yet another shameful twist in a case that has seen far too many," Hendry said. "The cycle of revicitimizating our hero 9/11 families needs to end. Our government needs to find a way to fix this immediately." "Justice cannot wait any longer," he added. The pre-trial agreements pertaining to Mohammed — the accused principal architect of the al Qaeda attacks — and two alleged co-conspirators, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi, spare the men the death penalty in exchange for guilty pleas in the government’s long-running effort to prosecute the alleged terrorists. The trio has been held at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay since 2003. The deals initially offered by the Office of Military Commissions in July sparked a furor among family members of 9/11 victims and survivors of the attacks, with many slamming them as a miscarriage of justice and preferring that the alleged 9/11 co-conspirators face trial. Austin, 70, subsequently announced that he had relieved the official responsible for signing off on the widely criticized plea agreements from authority and would instead assert his own authority in the matter. "There’s not a day that goes by when I don’t think of 9/11 and the Americans that were murdered that day; also those who died trying to save lives and the troops and their families who gave so much for this country in the years following that," Austin told reporters of his decision. "I’m deeply mindful of my duty to all those whose lives were lost or changed forever on 9/11, and I fully understand that no measure of justice can ever make up for their loss." "So this wasn’t a decision that I took lightly, but I have long believed that the families of the victims, our servicemembers, and the American public deserve the opportunity to see military commissions — commission trials carried out in this case," he added. Lawyers for the alleged terrorists slammed the defense secretary’s move as "corrupt," arguing that they were "years" in the making and made in "good faith." "We have had an unprecedented act by a government official to pull back what was a valid agreement," Walter Ruiz, a lawyer for al Hawsawi, said during a hearing in Guantanamo Bay, according to CNN. "For us, it raises very serious questions about continuing to engage in a system that seems so obviously corrupt and rigged," he added. Kathy Vigiano, a retired police officer and widow of Detective Joseph Vigiano, who died on 9/11, told The Post that while she can’t fathom that the alleged terrorists are not going to put to death, she now hopes they are at least locked up for life. "It’s unbelievable to me that these terrorist won’t get death," Vigiano said. "I can only hope that they get life without the possibility of parole." Related: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 10/18/2024 Navy SEAL who killed Osama Bin Laden issues stern warning to Biden and his successor after Israel eliminated Hamas leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 08/04/2024 Holder: KSM would be just a memory if my 2009 decision had been followed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 09/23/2023 9/11 detainee ruled mentally unfit for trial after torture at Guantanamo |
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| 2024-10-18 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Navy SEAL involved in the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden claims Israel is 'showing us how to win wars' by taking out Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. Retired Senior Chief Petty Officer Rob O'Neill said Israel's strategy of targeting leaders of the terrorist group was the right one. Israel said Sinwar was killed on Thursday when he was cornered in a building in Gaza by Israeli soldiers who spotted Hamas soldiers inside. After an exchange of fire, a tank shell was said to have hit the structure and collapsed it. Graphic images then circulated online purporting to show the body of the Hamas leader with Israeli soldiers surrounding it. 'What Israel is doing right now is they're showing us how to win a war. They're taking out the top leaders. They're going to keep doing it,' O'Neill told Newsmax. 'And they're proving to everyone, including like, even right now, our president will say, 'Well, now he's dead, we can work on a cease-fire. 'You don't don't let someone start a war and then whine about a cease-fire... Israel 'did a great job, and I couldn't be more proud.' O'Neill said killing Sinwar 'takes away a lot of [Hamas'] abilities' and was a big morale boost for Israel a year after the terrorist group's massacre on October 7, 2023. 'This is huge for them. And I love that they were able to do it with soldiers. So the last thing that Yahya saw was probably the Israeli flag,' he said. O'Neill said Iran was still the biggest enemy, but that 'our supposed ally in Qatar' needed to round up the Hamas leaders hiding on its soil and give them to Israel. The former special forces operative felt the same way about the 9/11 plotters, telling DailyMail.com in August they should have been executed years ago. O'Neill added he would have carried out the death penalty himself and criticized the plea deal that spared their lives. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - the architect of the 2001 plot that killed almost 3,000 people - and two accomplices Walid Bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi accepted life sentences to avoid a lengthy criminal trial and the death penalty. O'Neill said the agreement was a slap in the face for the families of the 2,657 American victims who waited 23 years for justice. Family members of the victims reacted with fury as news of the plea deal emerged, on a day when more evidence of Saudi Arabia's complicity in 9/11 was revealed in a New York courtroom. Montana native O'Neill and members of SEAL Team Six stormed Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2, 2011, and cornered him. He claims he shot the most wanted man in the world in the head, ending a global manhunt that had consumed the West for years. He came forward in 2014 and named himself as the man who fired the kill shots. |
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Holder: KSM would be just a memory if my 2009 decision had been followed |
| 2024-08-04 |
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday slammed the “political hacks” who blocked the trial of accused Sept. 11 terrorists in federal court nearly 15 years ago, saying those politicians owed an apology to the families of the victims of the attack for delaying justice against Guantanamo Bay detainees who Holder said would be “nothing more than a memory” had they been tried and convicted in the United States. After years of proceedings in an largely untested military commissions system in Guantanamo Bay that has been described as “Kafkaesque” and has been mired by seemingly endless delays, the Pentagon announced Wednesday that accused Sept. 11 “mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two of his co-defendants, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin ‘Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al-Hawsawi, had reached a plea deal that will spare them from the death penalty. Back in 2009, then-Attorney General Holder announced that Mohammed and four others would face trial in a federal court in Manhattan and promised to seek the death penalty in the case. But his plan quickly drew stiff political opposition from Republicans and many Democrats in Congress, who blocked the transfer of any detainees held at the military detention facility built on leased land in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from being transferred to America to face justice. Eleven years ago, in 2013, Holder said that Mohammed and his associates would have been “on death row as we speak” had the case gone to federal court as he proposed.Now, more than 20 years after Mohammed, also known as KSM, was captured in Pakistan and subsequently tortured by the CIA, Holder said military prosecutors got the best deal they could under the circumstances. But he blamed Congress for blocking a federal trial that would have resulted in swifter justice. “The people responsible for structuring this awful deal did the best they could. They were dealt a bad hand by the political hacks and those who lost faith in our justice system,” Holder said in a statement to NBC News on Thursday. “If my decision to try KSM and his confederates in the tested and effective federal court system had been followed they would be nothing more than a memory today,” Holder said. “Those who opposed my determination should apologize to those who lost loved ones on one of America’s darkest days. I hope the media will ask them if they will now admit the cravenness of their actions.” Related: Eric Holder 07/26/2024 Power-hungry descendant of slave owners: skeletons from Kamala Harris' closet Eric Holder 05/29/2024 Remarkable and Truthful Statement About FBI Political Surveillance Eric Holder 05/08/2024 Jamal Bowman is an Idiot |
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| 9/11 detainee ruled mentally unfit for trial after torture at Guantanamo |
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 [IsraelTimes] Military judge says Ramzi bin al-Shibh, diagnosed with mental illnesses, is unable to defend himself; trial of alleged criminal mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, three others to go aheadNothing a good trepanning with a cordless drill wouldn't help A judge at the US military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay on Thursday ruled that a Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i detainee who was tortured by the CIA is unfit to stand trial in a death penalty  case, US media reported.Ramzi bin al-Shibh, ...also Ramzi Binalshibh, the unhandsome Yemeni fixer accused of finding flight schools for the hijackers, helping them enter the United States, and assisting with financing the operation. He allegedly was selected to be a hijacker and made a "martyr video" in preparation for the operation, but was unable to get a U.S. visa. He also is believed to be a lead operative for a foiled plot to crash aircraft into London's Heathrow Airport... 51, had been scheduled to be one of five defendants in a trial related to the September 11, 2001, attacks on US cities by Al Qaeda that left almost 3,000 people dead.But Colonel Matthew McCall, a military judge, said the prisoner was too psychologically damaged to help defend himself, The New York Times  ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported. Doctors at the US base on the eastern tip of Cuba diagnosed Bin al-Shibh with post-traumatic stress disorder and secondary psychotic features, as well as a delusional disorder. The military psychiatrists said his condition left him "unable to understand the nature of the proceedings against him or cooperate intelligently" with his legal defense team, the Times reported. Bin al-Shibh has for years complained of being "tormented by invisible forces that caused his bed and cell to vibrate and that stung his genitals, depriving him of sleep," the paper added. Quit putting quarters into the vibrator bed, idiot Bin al-Shibh’s defense lawyer has claimed that his client was tortured by the CIA and went insane as a result of what the agency called enhanced interrogation techniques, which included sleep deprivation, waterboarding, and beatings. He had been due to face pretrial proceedings on Friday with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, believed to be the criminal mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, and three other defendants. Their hearing will proceed as scheduled, the paper said. Bin al-Shibh was accused of helping organize the Al Qaeda cell in Hamburg, Germany, that hijacked one of two passenger jets that crashed into the World Trade Center in New York. Another suicide airliner attack targeted the Pentagon in Washington, and a fourth plane crashed in rural Pennsylvania when passengers overpowered the hijackers. Related: Ramzi bin al-Shibh: 2020-10-21 Did the U.S. Government Hide bin Laden In Iran? Alleged Whistleblower Releases Evidence to Make His Claim Ramzi bin al-Shibh: 2019-09-01 Death penalty trial date for men accused of planning 9/11 is finally set Ramzi bin al-Shibh: 2016-05-30 Pakistan says DNA report confirms Mullah Mansoor’s death Related: Ramzi Binalshibh: 2022-09-12 'They don't want closure, they want justice!' Fury from 9/11 families as it's revealed five Guantanamo Bay prisoners accused of planning terror attack are negotiating for PLEA DEALS that would take death penalty off table Ramzi Binalshibh: 2019-09-01 Death penalty trial date for men accused of planning 9/11 is finally set Ramzi Binalshibh: 2017-05-21 Abu Zubaidah won’t testify |
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[Dawn] The Biden administration, the guys that caused the debacle in Afghanistan ...knaves, footpads, and adjustersemployed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... on Thursday transferred a detainee from its Guantanamo Bay prison facility in Cuba to Belize and is preparing to transfer at least two more in the coming weeks. All three are Pak citizens. Majid Khan left Guantanamo early Thursday and arrived in Belize several hours later. He is the first detainee to be resettled by the Biden administration and one of the few to be sent to a location in the Western Hemisphere. The other two expected to be released soon are Abdul Rahim Ghulam Rabbani and Mohammad Ahmad Ghulam Rabbani.
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... . He was granted asylum in the US in 1998, while attending high school near Baltimore but remained a Pak citizen. He returned to Pakistain in 2002 and, according to a US Defence Department detainee assessment, joined Al Qaeda and became a direct subordinate to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), Al Qaeda’s senior operational planner and the principal architect of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Khan was arrested in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... in March 2003 and taken to a CIA black site where he was subjected to sleep deprivation, an ice water bath, and forced rectal feeding and rehydration. The chairperson of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein ...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 89.53632, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator... , called the treatment torture. In September 2006, then-President George W. Bush announced that Khan was one of 14 "high value detainees" being transferred from CIA detention facilities to Guantanamo Bay to face the military tribunal system. In 2012, Khan pled guilty to terrorism-related charges and was sentenced to 10 years detention. That sentence ended March 1, 2022. Khan still has family in the US, but US federal law does not allow Guantanamo detainees to be resettled in the country. Aliya Hussain, an advocacy program manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, who has worked on Khan’s case for more than a decade, said, "Today did not seem possible when we started. We wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for the unwavering commitment of everyone who has represented Majid."
Related: Guantanamo Bay: 2023-01-11 Dirty bomb fears as 'several kg of URANIUM' found in cargo at Heathrow: Package 'shipped from Pakistan to UK-based Iranians' at centre of Met Police anti-terror probe after being discovered when airport alarms triggered Guantanamo Bay: 2022-10-06 Intelligence Agency of the Taliban administration said that the Taliban forces have arrested an ISIS Khorasan branch member Guantanamo Bay: 2022-09-20 Biden swaps Taliban drug lord for US contractor held in Afghanistan | |||
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Now the Biden administration, the guys that caused the debacle in Afghanistan  ...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...is trying once again to settle the legal situation for KSM and the other plotters and has opened negotiations that would give the snuffies life sentences. Even with successful negotiations, any deal would have to secure the Pentagon’s approval. Lapdogs Milley and Austin would surely do whatever they're told Even the suggestion of a deal during the Trump administration enraged then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who complained to Defense Secretary James N. Mattis about the convening authority, Harvey Rishikof. Shortly after that, Rishikof was fired. Related: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed: 2013-02-17 After 15 years in solitary, convicted terrorist pleads for contact with others Khalid Shaikh Mohammed: 2012-05-02 9/11 Mastermind Says He Wants to Die Khalid Shaikh Mohammed: 2011-04-27 WikiLeaks: KSM beheaded U.S. reporter despite warnings Related: Ramzi Bin al-Shibh: 2021-09-08 Pre-trial hearings for five 9/11 suspects delayed for 18 months by COVID resume at Guantanamo Bay Ramzi Bin al-Shibh: 2011-01-07 Al Qaeda Seeking Revenge against Morocco — Anti Terrorism Expert Ramzi Bin al-Shibh: 2005-04-23 For those who missed it, Moussaoui pleads guilty Related: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: 2022-02-06 US panel recommends release of Guantanamo detainee suspected in 9/11 attacks Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: 2021-09-18 Guantanamo trial of 9/11 mastermind suspended amid COVID scare Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: 2021-09-08 Pre-trial hearings for five 9/11 suspects delayed for 18 months by COVID resume at Guantanamo Bay Related: Ali Abdul Aziz Ali: 2021-09-08 Pre-trial hearings for five 9/11 suspects delayed for 18 months by COVID resume at Guantanamo Bay Ali Abdul Aziz Ali: 2015-11-15 FBI Has Nearly 1,000 Active Islamic State Probes Inside U.S. Ali Abdul Aziz Ali: 2011-06-02 US files new charges against Sept. 11 accused | |||||
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American authorities have recommended releasing a mentally ill inmate from Guantanamo Bay and repatriating him to Saudi Arabia  ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century..., according to a government document published Friday. Suspected of being al-Qaeda’s intended 20th hijacker for the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States, Mohammed al-Qahtani was tortured by interrogators at the US military base in Cuba, where he has been detained for nearly two decades. The government dropped its case against him in 2008 due to the abuse he experienced at the prison. The detention of al-Qahtani is "no longer necessary to protect against a continuing significant threat to the security of the United States," the Periodic Review Board, a panel composed of several US national security agencies, said in a summary of its decision. "He's crazy. I mean loony tunes-crazy" In its final determination dated February 4, the board said al-Qahtani was "eligible for transfer" and recommended that he be repatriated to Saudi Arabia, where he could receive comprehensive mental health care and be enrolled in a rehabilitation center for holy warriors.
Al-Qahtani was one of the first prisoners sent to Guantanamo in January 2002. He had flown to Orlando, Florida on August 4, 2001, but was denied entry to the country and sent back to Dubai. He was eventually captured in Afghanistan in December 2001. His torture at the prison was widely documented and spurred on international human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights,mind you... groups’ calls for the site to be shut down. He was subjected to prolonged isolation, sleep deprivation, sexual humiliation and other abuses. "We tortured Qahtani," Susan Crawford, a top judicial official in the Bush administration said in 2009, according to a Washington Post article. In January, the United States approved the release of five of the remaining 39 men still at Guantanamo. Ten others, including the alleged criminal mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, known as "KSM," are awaiting trial by a military commission. The detention center, run by the US Navy, was created after the 2001 attacks to house detainees in the US "war on terror" and has been called a site of "unparalleled notoriety" by UN rights experts. Related: Mohammed al-Qahtani: 2014-04-12 2 Saudi guards killed in Yemen border attack Mohammed al-Qahtani: 2014-04-11 Two Saudi guards killed in Yemen border attack Mohammed al-Qahtani: 2013-09-06 Saudi beheads two murderers | |||
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| [IsraelTimes] Pretrial hearing in case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, four others put on hold after infection of reporter; another person who was in courtroom also suspected of being infected. Related: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: 2021-09-08 Pre-trial hearings for five 9/11 suspects delayed for 18 months by COVID resume at Guantanamo Bay Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: 2021-03-23 Man acquitted in Daniel Pearl’s killing moved to Pakistan safe house Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: 2021-02-07 Pearl case accused moved to new premises |
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