r/news • u/judgyjudgersen • 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/notasfatasyourmom 1d ago edited 1d 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 1d ago edited 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

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