The administration of US President Joe Biden wants to prevent the judiciary from reaching an agreement with the alleged master planner of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and other co-defendants. According to American media, they will be spared the death penalty as part of the agreement.
“The harm to the government and the public will be irreparable if the judge accepts the settlements,” a Defense Department statement told an appeals court.
Corresponding agreement already in the summer
The background is that US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin wanted to terminate the relevant agreement in the summer – but this step was declared invalid by a military court. This means that the suspect’s agreement with the judiciary is again in force.
3000 people killed
On September 11, 2001, approximately 3,000 people were killed in the worst terrorist attack to date in the United States. Islamist terrorists sent three hijacked passenger planes into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon near Washington. A fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania.
Defendants want ‘plea deal’
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has been in the infamous American prison camp Guantanamo in Cuba for years and is considered the main planner of the attacks. He is also said to have arranged the communication and financing of the project. He and two co-defendants want to plead guilty as part of a so-called plea deal. The exact details were not initially made public.
US Secretary of Defense Austin initially supported the agreement, but withdrew after heavy criticism.
Eleven other prisoners have already been released
The outgoing US government recently released another eleven prisoners from the Guantanamo prison camp and transferred them to Oman. The freedmen are men from Yemen. The prison camp is located in Cuba, at the US naval base Guantánamo Bay.
At one point, nearly 800 people were imprisoned there. The camp was established after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the US under President George W. Bush to detain suspected Islamist terrorists without trial. Human rights organizations have long called for closure.
Source: Krone
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