An American Court of Appeals again canceled the agreement to declare himself guilty of Khalid Cheikh Mohammed, considered the “brain” of the attacks of September 11, 2001 on Friday, further delaying the celebration of this capital trial.
According to most of the two votes against one, the Washington Court of Appeals, the capital, restored the decision of the previous defense minister, Lloyd Austin, who revoked the agreements in August 2024 allowing Khalid Cheikh Mohammed and his two co -countrysid to declare guilty.
Avoid capital punishment
These agreements, which would undoubtedly have avoided them to incur capital punishment, were restored by a decision of a military judge in November.
“The minister acted within the limits of his legal powers and we do not want to question his sentence,” explains the Court of Appeals, concluding that a series of “indisputable errors” by the military judge.
Khalid Cheikh Mohammed, Walid Bin Attas and Mustafa al-Hawsawi, the three detainees in the American military base of Guantanamo, on the island of Cuba, are accused of “terrorism” and the murder of almost 3,000 people in attacks on the 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 US media, they had agreed to declare themselves guilty of the Association of Criminals in exchange for a perpetuity prison sentence, instead of a trial that could have led to its execution.
Khalid Cheikh Mohammed is better known due to the photo taken from him on the night of his capture in 2003, with hair with flyers and thick 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.
Source: BFM TV
