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A plea deal for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and two accomplices was abruptly revoked on Friday, just two days after it was reached.. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced the ...
The US government plans to appeal a military judge’s ruling that plea deals with the alleged 9/11 conspirators at Guantanamo Bay — which were revoked by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin — are ...
On July 31, the Pentagon said plea deals had been entered into with the trio, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, but two days later, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin rescinded them. Austin ...
In a letter dated August 1, 2023, Pentagon officials informed families of 9/11 victims of the possibility of a plea agreement which would spare the lives of the accused. [48] On May 6, 2024, the U.S. Department of Defense released a media invitation for the pre-trial hearing scheduled from July 15 to August 9, 2024. [49]
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin tried to revoke the 9/11 plea deals in July. The plea deals in the long-running case against the terrorists were struck over the summer and approved by the top ...
Mohammed's trial restarted on 7 September 2021 [12] but was postponed again for years of plea deal negotiations. [13] On 31 July 2024, Mohammed agreed to plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence rather than a death-penalty trial. [14] His plea deal was revoked by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin two days later.
Reporting in late 2022 indicated that the Biden administration was weighing a possible plea deal with Bin 'Attash and the four other suspected terrorists' Military Commission Trial. [42] On 31 July 2024, Attash agreed to plead guilty to avoid the death penalty, [14] [15] however it was revoked by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin two days later ...
On Friday, Austin revoked the plea deals for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and two others, and relieved Susan Escallier, who oversees the Pentagon's Guantanamo war court, of her authority to enter into ...