TORTURE LEGACY:
A lawyer said that the push to put the alleged mastermind on trial is ‘all contaminated by politics and the lack of accountability on torture’
Two decades after US authorities locked Khalid Sheikh Mohammed away at a military detention center in Cuba, the purported mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks sometimes seems barely any closer to being put on trial than the day he arrived.A judge recently set a 2028 date for Mohammed to finally be tried before a military tribunal, but some lawyers predict it will never happen — not that year or any other year.They say the maze of legal issues that arose because Mohammed was tortured following his 2003 capture in Pakistan is too twisted to ever be straightened out.
In New York on Tuesday, the Tribute in Light installation shines over the lower Manhattan skyline ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the World Trade Center.
A fleeting bid to put him on trial in a civilian court in New York City was shouted down years ago over security concerns.A plea agreement that would have kept Mohammed imprisoned for life, but spared him from a possible execution, began to collapse shortly after it was announced in 2024 and finally died for good last year.
