Pentagon chief loses bid to reject 9/11 plea deals
1 week, 2 days ago

Pentagon chief loses bid to reject 9/11 plea deals

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A military appeals court has ruled against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s effort to throw out the plea deals reached for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants in the 9/11 attacks, a U.S. official said. Supporters of the plea agreements see them as a way of resolving the legally troubled case against the men at the U.S. military commission at Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba. Defense lawyers said Austin had no legal authority to reject a decision already approved by the Guantanamo court’s top authority and said the move amounted to unlawful interference in the case. Separately, the Pentagon said it had repatriated one of the longest-held detainees at the Guantanamo military prison, a Tunisian man who U.S. authorities approved for transfer more than a decade ago.

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Lawyers for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed battle to let his guilty plea go forward
10 hours, 21 minutes ago

Lawyers for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed battle to let his guilty plea go forward

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed are urging a federal appeals panel to let his scheduled guilty plea Friday n Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, go forward in a plea agreement that would spare him and two co-defendants the risk of the death penalty in al-Qaida’s notorious Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Defense lawyers in a filing late Wednesday …

Biden administration asks court to block plea deal for alleged mastermind of 9/11 attacks
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1 day, 21 hours ago

Biden administration asks court to block plea deal for alleged mastermind of 9/11 attacks

The Hindu  

The Biden administration asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to block a plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that would spare him the risk of the death penalty in one of the deadliest attacks ever on the United States. It said the government would be denied a chance for a public trial and the opportunity to …

Biden administration asks court to block plea deal for alleged mastermind of 9/11 attacks
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2 days, 1 hour ago

Biden administration asks court to block plea deal for alleged mastermind of 9/11 attacks

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to block a plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that would spare him the risk of the death penalty in one of the deadliest attacks ever on the United States. It said the government would be denied a chance for a public trial and the …

Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin loses bid to reject 9/11 plea deals
1 week, 1 day ago

Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin loses bid to reject 9/11 plea deals

India Today  

WASHINGTON: A military appeals court has ruled against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s effort to throw out the plea deals reached for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants in the 9/11 attacks, a U.S. official said. Supporters of the plea agreements see them as a way of resolving the legally troubled case against the men at the U.S. military commission …

Pentagon Chief Loses Bid To Reject 9/11 Plea Deals
1 week, 2 days ago

Pentagon Chief Loses Bid To Reject 9/11 Plea Deals

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — A military appeals court has ruled against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s effort to throw out the plea deals reached for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants in the 9/11 attacks, a U.S. official said. Supporters of the plea agreements see them as a way of resolving the legally troubled case against the men at …

Pentagon repatriates Guantánamo detainee held without charge for over two decades
1 week, 2 days ago

Pentagon repatriates Guantánamo detainee held without charge for over two decades

Raw Story  

The Biden administration announced late Monday that it transferred a Tunisian man who was never charged with a crime out of the notorious Guantánamo Bay military prison in Cuba, a move that came more than a decade after the detainee was approved for release. Al-Yazidi was the fourth Guantánamo detainee in two weeks to be transferred from the prison by …

Pentagon chief loses bid to reject Sept. 11, 2001, plea deals
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1 week, 2 days ago

Pentagon chief loses bid to reject Sept. 11, 2001, plea deals

LA Times  

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III had contended that given the gravity of the Sept. 11 attacks, he should decide on any plea agreements that would spare the defendants the possibility of execution. A military appeals court has ruled against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s effort to throw out the plea deals reached for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and two other defendants …

US military court clears way for possible plea deals for 9/11 suspects
1 week, 2 days ago

US military court clears way for possible plea deals for 9/11 suspects

Al Jazeera  

Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin has sought to throw out a possible deal in a case complicated by accusations of CIA torture. A United States military appeals court has denied an effort by Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin to throw out possible plea deals for the alleged mastermind of the attacks on September 11, 2001, and his two co-conspirators. The deals could …

Defense Secretary strips Guantánamo official of power to reach settlements, after 9/11 plotter controversy
1 month, 1 week ago

Defense Secretary strips Guantánamo official of power to reach settlements, after 9/11 plotter controversy

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin revoked the authority of the official …

Judge sets date for 9/11 defendants to enter pleas in exchange for life sentences
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Judge sets date for 9/11 defendants to enter pleas in exchange for life sentences

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A U.S. military judge at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has scheduled hearings in early January for alleged …

US will appeal judge’s ruling that 9/11 defendants can plead guilty and avoid the death penalty
2 months ago

US will appeal judge’s ruling that 9/11 defendants can plead guilty and avoid the death penalty

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Defense Department will appeal a military judge’s ruling that plea agreements struck by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and two of his co-defendants are valid, a defense official said Saturday. The ruling this past week voided Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s order to throw out the deals and concluded that the …

U.S. to appeal judge’s ruling that 9/11 defendants can plead guilty and avoid the death penalty
2 months ago

U.S. to appeal judge’s ruling that 9/11 defendants can plead guilty and avoid the death penalty

LA Times  

A military judge had voided Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III’s order to throw out plea deals by three defendants in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S. The recent ruling voided Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III’s order to throw out the deals, and it concluded that the plea agreements were valid. The department will The ruling …

US judge reinstates plea deals for 9/11 masterminds– that means death penalty is off the table, again
2 months ago

US judge reinstates plea deals for 9/11 masterminds– that means death penalty is off the table, again

Firstpost  

The agreements are understood to remove the option of death penalty for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants. The judge’s decision comes three months after US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin scrapped the plea deals Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged September 11 mastermind, is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan, March 1, 2003 in …

Plea deals for 9/11 mastermind and two other terrorists reinstated by military judge in shock ruling
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2 months ago

Plea deals for 9/11 mastermind and two other terrorists reinstated by military judge in shock ruling

Daily Mail  

A military judge has said that plea deals sparing the Sept. 11 architect and two other terrorists should be reinstated in a shock ruling. Close to 3,000 people were killed during the attacks on New York City, Washington DC and the downing of a United Airlines plane in a Pennsylvania field A police scooter sits in the rubble in lower …

Plea deals revived for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others
2 months ago

Plea deals revived for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A military judge has ruled that plea agreements struck by alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co-defendants are valid, voiding an order by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to throw out the deals, a government official said. Unless government prosecutors or others attempt to challenge the plea deals again, McCall’s ruling means that the three 9/11 …

Plea deals revived for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 2 others
2 months ago

Plea deals revived for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 2 others

Politico  

The plea deals in the Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaida attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people spurred immediate political blowback by Republican lawmakers and others when announced in late July. The agreements, and Austin’s attempt to reverse them, have been one of the most fraught episodes in a U.S. prosecution marked by delays and legal difficulties, including years of ongoing pretrial …

Lawyer for news organizations presses Guantanamo judge to make public a plea deal for 9/11 accused
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Lawyer for news organizations presses Guantanamo judge to make public a plea deal for 9/11 accused

The Independent  

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News organizations seek unsealing of plea deal with 9/11 defendants
4 months ago

News organizations seek unsealing of plea deal with 9/11 defendants

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Seven news organizations filed a legal motion Friday asking the U.S. military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to make public the plea agreement that prosecutors struck with alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two fellow defendants. The controversy grew when Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced days later he was revoking the deal, the product of two years …

US Defense Secretary LLoyd Austin Restores Death Penalty for 9/11 Attackers, Voids Plea Deals
5 months ago

US Defense Secretary LLoyd Austin Restores Death Penalty for 9/11 Attackers, Voids Plea Deals

News 18  

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday overrode a plea agreement reached earlier this week for the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two other defendants, reinstating them as death-penalty cases. Gen. Susan Escallier, had approved plea deals with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two accused accomplices, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi, in the attacks. Republican Sen. Tom …

Death penalty back on table for accused mastermind of Sept. 11 attacks: Defense Secretary
5 months ago

Death penalty back on table for accused mastermind of Sept. 11 attacks: Defense Secretary

Raw Story  

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday "effectively put the death penalty back on the table” in the war court case against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the New York Times reports. The Times’ Carol Rosenberg, reporting from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, says the Pentagon "announced the decision with the release of a memorandum relieving …

Defense secretary overrides plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind and two other defendants
5 months ago

Defense secretary overrides plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind and two other defendants

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday overrode a plea agreement reached earlier this week for the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two other defendants, reinstating them as death-penalty cases. Letters sent to families of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the al-Qaida attacks said the plea agreement stipulated the three would serve life sentences …

Pentagon head Lloyd Austin revokes plea deals with 9/11 attack suspects
5 months ago

Pentagon head Lloyd Austin revokes plea deals with 9/11 attack suspects

Al Jazeera  

US defence secretary has revoked plea deals with alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two alleged accomplices. United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has revoked plea deals reached with the man accused of masterminding the September 11, 2001, attacks and two accomplices, just two days after the announcement of an agreement that reportedly would have taken the death penalty off …

U.S. says plea deal reached with 9/11 mastermind
5 months, 1 week ago

U.S. says plea deal reached with 9/11 mastermind

Raw Story  

U.S. prosecutors have reached a deal with 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Pentagon said Wednesday, reportedly involving a guilty plea in exchange for avoiding a death penalty trial. A Pentagon statement said no details of the deal would be immediately made public at this time, but the New York Times reported that Mohammed, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi …

US reaches plea deals with 9/11 accused, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
5 months, 1 week ago

US reaches plea deals with 9/11 accused, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Al Jazeera  

Mohammed and two other defendants likely to enter formal plea next week over attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. The United States has announced plea agreements with three men held in Guantanamo and accused of plotting the September 11, 2001, attacks, including alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The Pentagon did not release full details of the deals involving Mohammed, Walid …

Guantanamo inmate accused of being main plotter of 9/11 attacks to plead guilty
5 months, 1 week ago

Guantanamo inmate accused of being main plotter of 9/11 attacks to plead guilty

The Independent  

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9/11 attack: US reaches plea deal with alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
5 months, 1 week ago

9/11 attack: US reaches plea deal with alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

CNN  

CNN — The US has reached a plea deal with alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants accused of plotting the 2001 terror attacks, according to the Defense Department. “The decision to enter into a pre-trial agreement after 12 years of pre-trial litigation was not reached lightly; however, it is our collective, reasoned, and good-faith judgment that …

A panel finds torture made a 9/11 defendant psychotic. A judge will rule whether he can stand trial
1 year, 3 months ago

A panel finds torture made a 9/11 defendant psychotic. A judge will rule whether he can stand trial

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A military medical panel has concluded that one of the five 9/11 defendants held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base has been rendered delusional and psychotic by the torture he underwent years ago while in CIA custody. Al-Shibh’s newly disclosed diagnosis — post-traumatic stress disorder with secondary psychotic features — is the latest development to show how the …

Biden refuses to grant some of the conditions that 9/11 defendants were seeking in plea negotiations
1 year, 4 months ago

Biden refuses to grant some of the conditions that 9/11 defendants were seeking in plea negotiations

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has refused to approve some of the conditions that lawyers for the defendants in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks had sought in a possible plea bargain, ruling out a presidential guarantee that the five men would be spared solitary confinement and provided care for the trauma of their torture in CIA custody, a White House …

9/11 terrorists - including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed- may avoid death penalty as a result of plea deals
1 year, 4 months ago

9/11 terrorists - including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed- may avoid death penalty as a result of plea deals

Daily Mail  

The suspected architects behind the 9/11 terror attacks may never face the death penalty under new plea agreements being considered. The decision could impact numerous cases including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is being held as the suspected architect of the 9/11 attacks in New York City, the Pentagon and Pennsylvania. The prosecution of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others held …

Plea negotiations could mean no 9/11 defendants face the death penalty, the US tells families
1 year, 4 months ago

Plea negotiations could mean no 9/11 defendants face the death penalty, the US tells families

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The suspected architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and his fellow defendants may never face the death penalty under plea agreements now under consideration to bring an end to their more than decadelong prosecution, the Pentagon has advised families of some of the thousands killed. It told the families that while no plea agreement “has been finalized, …

Plea negotiations could mean no 9/11 defendants face the death penalty, U.S. tells families
1 year, 4 months ago

Plea negotiations could mean no 9/11 defendants face the death penalty, U.S. tells families

LA Times  

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who is suspected of planning the Sept. 11 attacks, may never face the death penalty under plea agreements under consideration, the Pentagon and FBI have advised families of some of the thousands killed. The suspected architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and his fellow defendants may never face the death penalty under plea agreements now under …

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