US Plea Agreements Reached with 9/11 Defendants Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, Walid Bin 'Attash and Mustafa al Hawsawi

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3857257/plea-agreements-reached-with-911-defendants-khalid-shaikh-mohammad-walid-bin-at/

https://archive.is/GFzJR

The Convening Authority for Military Commissions, Susan Escallier, has entered into pretrial agreements with Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin 'Attash, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi, three of the co-accused in the 9/11 case. The specific terms and conditions of the pretrial agreements are not available to the public at this time.

The three accused, along with Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Ramzi Bin al Shibh, were initially charged jointly and arraigned on June 5, 2008, and then were again charged jointly and arraigned a second time on May 5, 2012, in connection with their alleged roles in the September 11, 2001, attacks against the United States.

Information regarding military commissions can be found at the Office of Military Commissions website: https://www.mc.mil.

 

[BikeLock]

I support building a catapult and launching them from the Statue of Liberty right into the side of the new WTC.

Also, trials for this kind of stuff can be a problem in that trial records in the US are public and you can pretty much say anything up there, including state secrets.

There were a bunch of spies during WWII that were never tried because of the risk of them revealing state secrets.

"Your honor, I would like to state for the record that Los Alamos is a spook base where they're building a nuke using materials from Hanford and Oak Ridge. And Bush did 9/11."

The Civil Justice System just flat out was not intended to handle cases of this nature, most reasonable people would agree to exceptions to the system under extreme cases such as this, as the people who did this weren't even our people, captured on our soil.

Instead of being "arrested" (abducted, imho), they should have all been summarily shot and left in a ditch where they were found.

 

[Netizennameless]

To all the people crying about these faggots rotting in gitmo without trial, remember they are not citizens. They do not have rights, they are prisoners of war. it's a bit of a stretch to even call them people.

 

[ibeatmywife]

Well good. Seems there was blowback. We are so back. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/aus...eged-911-mastermind-khalid/story?id=112529708

 

[Ravana]

Honestly surprised that they backtracked.

 

[Snekposter]

I read that Cuba repeatedly refuses to accept the money. They want the US out.

Well, tough shit for them.

To all the people crying about these faggots rotting in gitmo without trial, remember they are not citizens. They do not have rights, they are prisoners of war. it's a bit of a stretch to even call them people.

They're not even prisoners of war. I know people like to give the Bush admin a ton of shit for the "enemy combatants" line they trotted out at every opportunity but its not wrong. An intentional disregard for the rules of war (like say, deliberately killing civilians simply because you can while using these other civilians as meatshields) voids any and all protections one might otherwise be able to claim.

Paradoxically, ISIS personnel who were captured had more claim to be true prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions simply because they couldn't help but announce themselves with flags and armbands and clothes that somewhat resembled military uniforms and acted in a vaguely organized manner. There's provisions that cover paramilitary and resistance groups and aside from the whole "deliberately causing atrocities" bit in the Conventions that supersede everything else they definitely had a claim under those sections.