(Washington) An American court of appeal again canceled the Khalid Cheikh Mohammed’s guilty advocacy agreement on Friday, considered the “brain” of the attacks of September 11, 2001, further delaying the holding of this capital trial before a military court.
By a majority of two votes against one, the Washington Court of Appeal, the capital, restored the decision of the previous defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, who revoked the agreements in August 2024 allowing Khalid Cheikh Mohammed and his two co -cities to plead guilty.
These agreements, which would undoubtedly have avoided them to incur capital punishment, were then restored by a decision of a military judge in November.
“The secretary acted within the limits of his legal powers and we do not wish to call into question his judgment,” explains the Court of Appeal, concluding that an “indisputable errors” series on the part of the military.
Khalid Cheikh Mohammed, Walid Bin Attash and Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, all three detainees in the American military base of Guantanamo, on the island of Cuba, are accused of “terrorism” and the murder of nearly 3000 people in the attacks on American soil, one of the most traumatic episodes in the history of the United States.
The terms of the agreement had not been made public but according to the American media, they had agreed to plead guilty of the association of criminals in exchange for a perpetuity prison sentence, instead of a trial which could have led to their execution.
Khalid Cheikh Mohammed is best known because of the photo taken of him on the evening of his capture in 2003, with ruffled hair and the bushy mustache, dressed in white pajamas.
This Pakistanis raised in Kuwait, known as “KSM” (S for Sheikh in English), was transferred to Guantanamo in September 2006.
