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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 ...
U.S: Florida attorney pleads guilty to trying to detonate explosives near Chinese embassy in Washington; World: US to boost military presence in Mideast, sending fighter jet squadron and keeping carrier in region; Politics: Defense Secretary overrides plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind and two other defendants
WASHINGTON (AP) — US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin overrides plea agreement with 9/11 defendants, reinstating them as death penalty cases.
(Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday revoked plea deals agreed to earlier this week with the man accused of masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and two ...
The move comes two days after the military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, announced it had reached plea deals with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two accused accomplices in the attacks. 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.
U.S: Florida attorney pleads guilty to trying to detonate explosives near Chinese embassy in Washington; World: US to boost military presence in Mideast, sending fighter jet squadron and keeping carrier in region; Politics: Defense Secretary overrides plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind and two other defendants
Defense attorneys for a group of alleged 9/11 plotters slammed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s decision last week to revoke an agreed-upon plea deal that would spare the men the death penalty.
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.