A U.S. military court is scheduled to try the man accused of being the “mastermind” behind the September 11, 2001, attacks in the U.S. in June 2028, U.S. media reported yesterday, Wednesday, citing a military judge’s order.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was once considered one of the most important leaders of the jihadist organization al-Qaeda, until his arrest in March 2003 in Pakistan.
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He was transferred to a U.S. military prison in Guantanamo in September 2006, where he remains detained twenty years later. Prior to that, he was held in secret CIA prisons in Poland, where he was repeatedly subjected to interrogation and torture.
In July 2025, a U.S. appeals court overturned a plea agreement that called for a guilty plea from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two of his fellow detainees, in exchange for avoiding the death penalty.
The trial date for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed may be postponed, as various procedural issues remain unresolved — primarily what kind of evidence will be allowed to be presented at trial.
The prison where he is being held, located at a U.S. Navy base on Cuban territory leased by the U.S., was opened after the 2001 attacks on the orders of then-President George W. Bush. At its peak, some 800 people accused of “terrorism” were held there. Human rights organizations, which describe the detention center as a “black hole” in terms of international law, have been calling for its closure for years. Nevertheless, it remains in operation, although there are now only a handful of detainees left.
Source: APE-MPE
