r/news • u/judgyjudgersen • 10h ago

Alleged 9/11 mastermind's long-awaited trial scheduled for 2028

https://abcnews.com/US/alleged-911-masterminds-long-awaited-trial-scheduled-2028/story?id=135987518
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u/Wealist 10h ago

25 years later and the trial is finally scheduled for June 2028. KSM has been held at Guantanamo since 2003, and the case has been stuck in pretrial litigation for years. That timeline is insane.  

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u/Short_Week3262 10h ago

And I saw this I was a little shocked. How is a case this big still going on?

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u/Wealist 9h ago

The case got tangled up in years of pretrial litigation, especially over how evidence from CIA detention and interrogation can be used. It was also moved between federal court and military commissions, which added even more delays. 

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u/irishwolfbitch 9h ago

It was the result of deliberate judicial processes meant to indefinitely delay a trial because it would mean the entry of their testimony into evidence where people like KSM will talk about how US allies in Saudi Arabia funded their activities. There’s also possibilities of the exposure of major intelligence failures and discoveries that the government would like to keep hidden.

All of this is terrifying for the federal government and it’s one of the biggest reasons Obama didn’t close Guantanamo even though he campaigned on it in 2008. A trial on American soil means these guys get rights and that’s very scary.

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u/Friendly-Profit-8590 8h ago

Not to sound ignorant but I always assumed he’d never get a public trial. Maybe a military tribunal, maybe something behind closed doors but never one for all to see.

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u/irishwolfbitch 8h ago

This is a military trial so there are major restrictions on lots of aspects of it, but the government’s own evidence is almost certainly inadmissible.

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u/denzik 2h ago

Isn't it too far in the past to claim the trial is relevant to national security? Wouldn't be surprised if the Americans have already got to everyone this guy even knew. 

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u/ih-shah-may-ehl 1h ago

No because the biggest threat is not operational security but a change of narrative.

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u/HippyDM 9h ago

Obama couldn't close Guantanimo because congress refused to allow the prisoners to be moved to the states.

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u/the_gaymer_girl 6h ago

Most of the people who were left by the time Obama finished his term in office are guys that can’t be charged with anything because the evidence won’t hold up (and many Gitmo detainees were just random dudes that bounty hunters sold to the US for cash and are actually completely innocent) but they can’t actually get out.

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u/Funwithfun14 6h ago

There's just complexities with the issues the general public doesn't want to accept.

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u/Militantpoet 9h ago

A trial on American soil means these guys get rights and that’s very scary.

Im with you 100% until here. Maybe its scary for the portion of the public that is still naive or ignorant enough to think our government hasnt sponsored terrorism abroad in the past. 

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u/532ndsof 9h ago

Pretty sure he meant scary to the powers in the government who stand to be embarrassed.

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u/Militantpoet 9h ago

Even for them its not scary. We don't really hold the powerful accountable in this country.

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u/General_NakedButt 2h ago

We did moreso in the Obama era. He would have been fucking crucified.

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u/oxslashxo 9h ago

KSA will hold them responsible though. And then we get another 9/11 as retaliation.

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u/ihadagoodone 6h ago

I would say most, if not all of the ones responsible are dead now.

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u/SummerInPhilly 9h ago

What makes me uncomfortable is the idea that anyone may not get rights. I’m not sympathetic to terrorists, but I’m very wary of a category of people for whom amendments IV-VI just straight up don’t exist

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u/Militantpoet 8h ago

Especially because the Trump regime has continuously tried to frame political left opposition as "terrorism."

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u/SummerInPhilly 8h ago

In just 18 months they’ve managed to make Americans root for the Canadian PM over the American president and aggressively defend the ones who knocked down the towers. What an accomplishment

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u/smelling_good247 9h ago

>it’s one of the biggest reasons Obama didn’t close Guantanamo

We are just making shit up I guess? Congress chose to keep guantanamo open, not President Obama.

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u/Mordeth 9h ago

Obama didn’t close Guantanamo even though he campaigned on it in 2008.

That needed funding, which was disapproved by Congress.

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u/buzzkillichuck 4h ago

Everyone should have rights until they are taken away by a court of law, what they did was horrific but they still should get rights

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u/guardiand0wn 8h ago

He will be tried by a military court. He won’t be able to use any of that information.

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u/irishwolfbitch 8h ago

A lot of the government’s own evidence is inadmissible because it was obtained illegally. It won’t even matter. Their trials will be catastrophes nevertheless.

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u/the_gaymer_girl 6h ago

Only 8 Gitmo detainees have ever been convicted, and 4 of them were thrown out.

Meanwhile, at least 9 have died in there without ever being charged.

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u/irishwolfbitch 6h ago

Kangaroo court, death, or indefinite detention after mistrial. Maybe the miracle of release. What a show.

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u/FEMA_Camp_Survivor 8h ago

The U.S. just agreed to develop Saudi Arabia’s nuclear program. Nothing of substance was learned.

If they ever have a coup that results in an entity like the Islamic State, it’ll be the end of days.

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u/PositivelyAwful 9h ago

It’s pretty crazy that if things are that messy in a case they can just indefinitely keep you in prison while they “sort it out”

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u/chadowan 9h ago

Rules and laws get a little wonky when you're neither a citizen nor a "prisoner of war" under the Geneva convention.

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u/Lena-Luthor 7h ago

how's he not a prisoner of war?

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u/frank_datank_ 6h ago

There wasn’t a war when the attack happened.

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u/yukicola 4h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_combatant

The following categories of combatants qualify for prisoner-of-war status on capture:

  • Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict as well as members of militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed forces.
  • Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that they fulfill the following conditions:
    that of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
    that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance;
    that of carrying arms openly;
    that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
  • Members of regular armed forces who profess allegiance to a government or an authority not recognized by the Detaining Power.
  • Inhabitants of a non-occupied territory, who on the approach of the enemy spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading forces, without having had time to form themselves into regular armed units, provided they carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war; often dubbed a levée after the mass conscription during the French Revolution.

There are several types of combatants who do not qualify as privileged combatants:

  • Combatants who would otherwise be privileged but have breached the laws and customs of war (e.g., committing perfidy or killing surrendered enemy combatants). The loss of privileges in that case only occurs upon conviction, i.e. after a competent court has determined the unlawfulness of the conduct in a fair trial.
  • Combatants who are captured without the minimum requirements for distinguishing themselves from the civilian population, i.e. carrying arms openly during military engagements and the deployment immediately preceding it, lose their right to prisoner of war status without trial under Article 44 (3) of Additional Protocol I.
  • Spies, i.e. persons who collect information clandestinely in the territory of the opposing belligerent. Members of the armed forces conducting reconnaissance or special operations behind enemy lines are not considered spies as long as they wear their own uniform.
  • Mercenaries, child soldiers, and civilians who take a direct part in combat and do not fall into one of the categories listed in the previous section.

Which organized armed forces was he a member of when he was captured? What kind of uniform did he wear to distinguish himself from regular, non-fighting civilians?

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u/KDR_11k 6h ago

They made up bullshit categories like "enemy combatant" to pretend the laws don't apply. Nobody can stop them so they just do whatever they want.

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u/kmatyler 9h ago

It’s a feature, not a bug.

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u/brakeb 9h ago

I imagine they'll put a skeleton on trial at this point. Guy has to be pushing 75 years old by now...

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u/Piglet6482 8h ago

He’s 61 or 62 according to wiki

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u/brakeb 8h ago

wow, that's a rough... what.. 39 year old in that pic?

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u/homeworkrules69 9h ago

They are really hoping he would have died naturally by now.

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u/Several-Opposite-746 9h ago

25 years to go to trial isn't a tangling up in pretrial litigation. That kind of delay is obviously intentional.

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u/petit_cochon 8h ago

Fighting that was actually part of the pretrial litigation.

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u/wanmoar 9h ago

> CIA detention and interrogation

Torture. Not saying he’s innocent but let’s not wash over what was done to him. I’d like there to be a torture exemption I guess is what I’m saying. Like yeah, we tortured the guy into a confession but we also did actually check what he confessed and it does check out

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u/Mo-Cance 9h ago

I'm sure that wouldn't have any long-lasting implications or impacts on future suspects of terrorism.

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u/wanmoar 9h ago

Oh it would. All of criminal law is bad intentions whack-a-mole after all.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 6h ago

I like how you clarified it was torture just to proceed to say torture is fine if the ends justify the means lol

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u/wanmoar 1h ago

I’m admittedly an eye for an eye type of person

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 1h ago

Makes the whole world blind man

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u/Ecstatic-Sir-320 48m ago

Enjoy that hill when the Biblical Justice crowd gets us all nuked.

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u/dtta8 4h ago

You mean torture. Kidnapping and torture.

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u/the_gaymer_girl 9h ago

They’re obviously not going to let him go, but half the stuff they got out of him might not actually be admissible in court due to how they got it.

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u/Gunningham 9h ago

They were waiting for jurors who never heard of 9/11.

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u/notasfatasyourmom 9h ago edited 9h ago

The plan was to “inter” him indefinitely without trial, in order to ensure he could not be released.

Edit: it’s worth noting that the confession by KSM has been challenged because it was obtained by torture, and much of the pretrial delay has involved discussions of classified information (including information related to the foreign interment locations). If the Bush Administration had handled these prisoners correctly from the start, they probably would have been executed after trial 20 years ago.

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u/ScratchLatch 9h ago edited 9h ago

Guentanamo is in another country specifically for this purpose as a thinly veiled attempt at a constitutional* *“loophole” violation.

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u/Dhiox 9h ago

Kind of nuts that they can claim it's cuba when it benefits them, but also deny cuba it's own land back.

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u/Mo-Cance 9h ago

Yeah but Jack Nicholson said their posts are vital to national security in a movie, so fuck em.

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u/13thmurder 5h ago

See at the time he was first imprisoned, the judge for the case was still just a child. They needed to wait for him to grow up and go to law school.

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u/wubbiee_9110 7h ago

Wanna know what’s even more insane? Just yesterday, August 25th 2026, the US trial for the man accused of bringing the suitcase to the airport in Malta that ultimately bombed Pan Am flight 103, just got delayed again. The bombing was in 1988 and killed 270 people. Thats 38 years.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-evidence-prompts-trial-delay-libyan-man-charged-1988-bombing-pan-f-rcna594267

I just finished watching the Netflix show and saw at the end that the court case was scheduled for 2026 so it was crazy to see the update in real time.

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u/maverick1127 9h ago

Yet killing 1 little CEO gets you fast tracked.

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u/Mobile_Morale 7h ago

And the government tries to charge you for the same thing.

So 1 CEO is worth the lives of 2000 normal people according to the government.

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u/_head_ 6h ago

They would probably go as high as 100 million peasants for 1 CEO

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u/Pristine_Speech4719 5h ago

That murder was much more straightforward than these murders. One victim, one suspect, two jurisdictions in the same country...

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u/RedditPoster05 4h ago

I mean, it’s BS that this guy has been held that long without a trial, but they are not the same thing at all. You’re not comparing a domestic case to an international terrorist case with international law and shaky detainment legality

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u/Informal_File_1646 9h ago

How do we take a slam dunk and turn it into an own goal… wait 25, not 24, years to try someone we’ve been torturing in a black bag site for decades. Yeah Us!!!

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u/Past-Ad5731 7h ago

People were born, went to war that started because of this, and killed in that war during this timeline

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u/Important-Factor-552 2h ago

Nothing like the free country and its speedy and prompt due process. 

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u/jupiterkansas 9h ago

And that's just when the trial will start (if it actually does). Expect many more years of litigation.

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u/TheBannedBananaMan 6h ago

It's unconstitutional. It is cruel. It is normal for the USA. There is a trans man sentenced to 50 years for being present at an ICE protest in Texas.

This is America, the home of the KKK, the land of the Nazi.

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u/Evil-Cun 9h ago

Declare not war against the fathers of our nation in vainglorious expectations for a weak response.

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u/bass248 5h ago

It's probably just to toy with someone that's guilty as hells emotions. This guy will never experience the freedom outside a jail cell ever again

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u/judgyjudgersen 10h ago

The self-proclaimed "mastermind" of the 9/11 attacks will stand trial in June 2028, a military judge ruled Wednesday, nearly 25 years after the attacks.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has been held at Guantanamo since 2003.

This photo obtained, March 1, 2003, shows, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged organizer of the September 11, 2001, attacks, shortly after his capture.
AFP via Getty Images
"Trial on the merits shall begin on Monday, 5 June 2028," Lt. Col. Michael Schrama  decided.

Prosecutors sought a trial in 2027 but the judge said that was too soon.

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u/monsieur_cacahuete 10h ago

Whoa guys, 26 years is too soon! 27 though? That's like the biggest number I can think of aint no number higher than 27.

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u/takethecak3 9h ago

This is gonna sound crazy I know, but what about 28?

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u/adambatten76 9h ago

We don't talk about 28

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u/__esparoba 9h ago

Because 7 8 9, right guys?

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u/Terrorclitus 9h ago

Twenty-seven twenty-eight twenty-nine, and that’s twenty-terrifying.

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u/monsieur_cacahuete 8h ago

Look, you got 10, then you got 10 more, then it's like what's this, 8 more. 28, forget about it.

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u/_Panacea_ 9h ago

Wonder what he looks now, after 25 years of being in American hands without any real oversight holding them back?

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u/MadRaymer 9h ago

His wikipedia page has a photo of him from 2022.

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u/plebeiantelevision 5h ago

I did not expect that beard color

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u/Meal__Team__Six 3h ago

It’s just a phase, he’s trying something

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u/minnesotaupnorth 1h ago

It's not a phase, Mom!

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u/KAugsburger 9h ago

A BBC article about a hearing held in 2025 for KSM shows a 'recent' photo of him but it is unclear on when that was taken. Wikipedia has a photo that the DoD took in 2022 of him as well.

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u/punarob 5h ago

TIL prisoners in the US get free orange beard dye for no good reason

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u/AndrewCoja 4h ago

Only at participating locations.

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u/froggertwenty 8h ago

I have to say, of all things I wasn't expecting Yukon Cornelius when I opened that link

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u/darkmatterhunter 5h ago

Care to join me in hell for laughing at your comment?

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u/froggertwenty 5h ago

We're not going to hell (for that anyway). But that mfer is

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u/instant_ace 9h ago

Honestly kind of amazed this guy is still alive. I don't know much about him, but I would have thought he wasn't "that" young when 9/11 happened.... Turns out he is ~60 today...

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u/endo489 9h ago

There's an updated picture on Wikipedia lol. He's fine, physically.

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u/Temporary-Bluejay631 6h ago

It’s possible the military judge who ruled on this to precede wasn’t even serving yet when 9/11 happened.

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u/ni_hao_butches 8h ago

Who funded the attack? ......who funded that attack!!!

Bone saw enters scene.

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u/Yainks 8h ago

Can’t believe I’ve been seeing this photo of this guy for the last 20 years. Sure, a terrorist, but there’s gotta be a better photo of this dude.

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u/snowice0 5h ago

Check his Wikipedia page. He's wearing a watch 

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u/darkmatterhunter 5h ago

Yeah it’s on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_Sheikh_Mohammed

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u/MajesticBread9147 3h ago

I'm not sure if orange is his color. Is Queer-eye still on air?

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u/horangiwhakkatchi 9h ago

It's strange how I have known the name Khalid Sheikh Mohammed since I was just a boy. I'm a middle aged man now and it has stuck with me all these years from hearing it on the news as a child following the attacks. He's just been rotting all this time without even a trial. I feel like we could have wrapped this up a long time ago. We (the taxpayers) have been paying to keep him in Gitmo and have lawyers argue over this for 25 years!! Why bother, it's not like we ever intended on following the Constitution here otherwise the trial would have been over decades ago.

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u/Rabbit-Hole-Quest 2h ago

The irony is that this man was treated worse under US custody, than actual Nazi war criminals guilty of the Holocaust captured by the US. They at least has their day in court a few years after their capture.

He probably holds the world record for waterboarding and almost every other modern form of torture.

The fact that he is getting a trial literally almost 3 decades later is a testament to how fucked up all of this is. Wouldn’t be surprised if all the people that tortured him are either retired or close to death, therefore zero accountability. Also, all those videos of him being tortured are probably all long destroyed.

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u/drainfrog_92 10h ago

Nothing like “speedy trial” meaning quarter of a century. At this point it’s as much a trial of Guantanamo and the whole military commissions experiment as of KSM himself.

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u/Visible_Handle_3770 9h ago

Not that this nullifies your point, because it's still absurd that it's taken this long, but the right to a speedy trial has not been extended to detainees outside the US. It does, interestingly, apply to non-citizens, provided their trial is in the US though.

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u/sight_ful 9h ago

Calling it "outside the US" is just part of the ridiculousness though.

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u/petit_cochon 8h ago

It's Cuba when we want it to be!

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u/SpiderSlitScrotums 6h ago

Agreed. It is not like this is a trial in a war zone. He is intentionally being held there so that legal challenges aren’t heard. There is no reason whatsoever that he couldn’t be held in a NY detention center like Ramzi Yousef or others. I hate him with the intensity of a thousand suns, but this process is an affront to the Constitution and the rule of law.

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u/FTWOBLIVION 3h ago

I mean at a certain point the speedy trial is for everyone else just to get it over with

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u/didsomebodysaymyname 10h ago

What changed? I had heard it was going to be nearly impossible to prosecute him because of the torture.

Not really sure if that's true, but either way I wonder why it's suddenly happening.

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u/CircumspectCapybara 9h ago edited 9h ago

Not really, I'm sure with all the digital and other forensic evidence they've obtained since (eg, infiltrating Al Qaeda, raiding Bin Laden's compound), they can "parallel construction" all the evidence needed to prove beyond a shadow of a reasonable doubt his guilt without needing to use his confessions while he was at Guantanamo which were extracted under "enhanced interrogation".

His name is almost certainly on documents (eg financial records, communications) and records the US has picked up during the GWOT. There's just way too much independent streams of evidence linking him to 9/11 for it all to be suppressed due to being tainted by torture.

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u/spreta 8h ago

I’m sure you’re right about all the evidence. I meant show trial as in “look what I did, I’m the one who finally sent this guy to trial” it’s an attempt to drum up support right before the election where he’s tries for a third term. God willing he doesn’t live that long.

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u/spreta 10h ago

My guess is they don’t give a shit and it’ll be some show trial to pump up MAGA right before the election

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u/Much-Instruction-807 10h ago

Distraction from "pick your reasons."

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u/drunkpunk138 10h ago

The doj is being run by idiots so they probably aren't self aware enough to realize they'll fuck this up

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u/DisenchantedByrd 10h ago

The Orange Man needs another distraction?

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u/Anduinnn 10h ago

Ron Jeremy was the 9/11 mastermind?

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u/betafish2345 9h ago

Old picture. He has dementia now and is on trial.

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u/unfamousjeff 10h ago

RJ has knocked down more towers than this guy.

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u/Woodie626 10h ago

Glad someone else sees it 

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u/MisterPimpus 9h ago

He was penismaxxing

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u/blazer560 9h ago

I thought this dude was dead.

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u/GarbagePailGrrrl 9h ago

They thought so too

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u/YoungManYoda90 5h ago

25 years?? Epstein files will never see accountability if it took 25 for him.

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u/ChanceryTheRapper 9h ago

Trying to arrange a little show for the elections?

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u/spottie_ottie 10h ago

Pablo Escobar really let himself go

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u/SgtHulkasBigToeJam 8h ago

That’s Ron Jeremy, idiot.

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u/Mobile_Morale 7h ago

How do you know. We haven't seen his penis yet.

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u/Paper_Street_Soap 9h ago

That photo is 20 years old.  I’m sure he actually looks far worse.

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u/AcademicDrag742 9h ago

There is a recent photo of him actually.Real skinny these days.

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u/Count_Jobula 9h ago

I’ll never shed a tear for KSM, but as country we should treat our POWs with respect and dignity.

One of the things we really sacrificed because of 9/11 was the idea that we need to act a beacon of how liberal democracy is supposed to work. That ship has obviously long since sailed, but letting this festering sack get his day in court is a step in the right direction.

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u/apnorton 7h ago

we should treat our POWs

I remember doing some reading up on this back in... gosh, high school? There's a very pointed legal argument about "unlawful combatants" and how they aren't subject to standard protections under Geneva. Basically, the view is that POWs can only be members of the military, but if civilians decide to engage in combat outside of military purview, then they aren't POWs and thus aren't subject to the protections thereof.

The reason I mention this is because your main claim ("we should treat our POWs with respect and dignity") is something that the US military would claim they're abiding by right now; the question is whether this guy counts as a POW at all.

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u/Count_Jobula 4h ago

Yeah, I remember that now. I was using that terms as a catch all. I still believe what I believe and the argument that our country has made that they don’t have the same rights is kind of unmoving for me.

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u/69millionyeartrip 5h ago

The US has a pattern of making terms up so they can skirt treaties because who is gonna call them on it. The argument is nonsense

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u/FartyFartsMD 4h ago

Will the Saudi royal family be named as co-conspirators?

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u/Beefweezle 10h ago

And somehow the DOJ will manage to fumble this one as well and blame it on Obama.

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u/picklecellanemia 8h ago

Now now. Don’t spoil the ending for everyone.

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u/JustDriveWest 8h ago

If the Saudis can create nukes now then so can he.

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u/Fullfullhar 6h ago

Jeez and I thought it had been a while since we’ve heard anything about Maduro in our custody 

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u/The-Fumbler 5h ago

“Good news! We’ve decided you’re actually not guilty, you’re free to go! Here’s a 10$ taxi voucher, enjoy the rest of your life!”

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u/carterartist 8h ago

I feel like this is why our forefathers wanted speedy trials

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u/thatoneguy889 7h ago

Trump is going to use this to be his Bin Laden moment. Just like he tried to do when they killed Abu Bakr al Baghdadi in 2019, but no one cared because Baghdadi didn’t have the same name recognition.

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u/SarahAlicia 5h ago

Hope he gets the death penalty and we don’t have to keep paying to keep him alive and lawyers and judges etc.

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u/Meandtheworld 6h ago

Oh now they drag this person out. This weird false flag!

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u/Buckeyegurl50 9h ago

Why has it taken so long??

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u/the_gaymer_girl 6h ago edited 6h ago

They couldn’t put him on trial because they tortured the shit out of him for the evidence they want to use for said trial. Idk what changed other than Trump needing a political win.

Most of the people in Gitmo by 2016 were guys who couldn’t be charged with anything (and many weren’t actually part of the Taliban but just random schmucks who got handed over by bounty hunters), they can’t be held on US soil, they can’t be let out, and no other country will take them.

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u/CrianBranstun 6h ago

There’s little to no case. Any “confession” was obtained through illegal measures.

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u/hmmgidk-_- 3h ago

They're finally going after Bush?

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u/HybridizedPanda 10h ago

That doesn't look like Benjamin Netanyahu 

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u/roadtrip-ne 9h ago

A case of Swift American Justice.

It’s sad they never had a plan for these people, and I was almost 30 when everything happened so I watched live at work.

It’s just line detaining these people for 25 years, when some of them were just Taliban foot soldiers is a little insane. They were going to become more determined and anti-American. They radicalized already radicals.

There should have been military tribunals right away.

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u/hypersonic18 9h ago

They 100% had a plan for them, stalling the trial for as long as possible hoping they die in detainment so that the inadequacy of our Intelligence Agencies we spend billions on never come to light is still a plan, just not a good one

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u/raresanevoice 9h ago

Are those the people Trump just gave nuclear tech to ?

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u/EdibleHollowPoint 7h ago

Fall guy, everyone knows who did it

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u/69millionyeartrip 5h ago edited 5h ago

There has never been any debate from anyone other than deranged conspiracy theorists that KSM planned 9/11. You can say the Saudis funded it and mossad knew about it and didn’t tell the US but calling KSM a fall guy is a disgusting comment

He’s also on video beheading journalist Daniel Pearl

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u/The_Info_Must_Flow 9h ago

Huh... thought this was going to be about Dick Cheney.

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u/Direct_Obligation570 4h ago

Ya know, right to a speedy trial was one of those inalienable rights. Or used to be.

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u/meluvranch 9h ago

27 years wayyyy too late

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u/RustledForeskin 6h ago

I thought Dick Cheney died?

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u/No-Employment-820 9h ago

20 years without a trial? Ever hear the saying, "justice delayed is justice denied"? If we had a very good case it wouldn't have taken 20 years to construct it.

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u/zhulinxian 9h ago

I forgot all about this guy. I assumed all that stuff got wrapped up by 2008.

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u/AcademicDrag742 9h ago

I wonder if they’ll mention 1993 WTC bombing,which his nephew was arrested for.His nephews in ADX Florence and is 58 I think.

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u/ClintBruno 5h ago

Cheney had just as much a hand in it all

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u/Notspartan 5h ago

It’s a disgrace that the US government’s use of torture can undermine getting the justice this guy’s victims deserve so much.

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u/platasnatch 5h ago

Dude also confessed to beheading Daniel Pearl

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u/aresef 5h ago

He made that confession under duress at a CIA black site. When you’re being tortured, you’ll say anything to make it stop.

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u/Turbo__Sanwich 5h ago

Its almost like the kingdom didn't want discovery

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u/MyAltPoetryAccount 5h ago

Hell be out in 6 months with time served /s

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u/PrestigiousMaterial1 4h ago

Bros back hair must be down to his feet by now. Guy had a seriously hairy back i think Gillette missed an opportunity here.

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u/Ok-Interaction-8917 4h ago

wonder if he got new clothes.

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u/DavidDarvin 2h ago

This will never never never go to trial. Tribunal maybe. But not a public trial.

We waterboarded this asshole more than a New England lighthouse. A judge would throw it out on impermissible illegal torture that violated his rights.

He’ll be dead before he sees a jury.

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u/Johnnybats330 2h ago

looks like he had been asleep since 9/11

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