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This photo obtained in 2003 shows alleged plotter of the September 11, 2001 attack Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The United States issued charges against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, along with four other alleged plotters, setting the stage for a much-awaited military trial.
WASHINGTON -- Charges against five alleged co-conspirators in the 9/11 attacks were referred to trial by the Pentagon on Wednesday, and the men could face the death penalty.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi are (once again) charged with planning and executing the attacks on Sept 11, 2001, leading to the deaths of 2,976 people.
The convening authority of the Office of Military Commissions referred the case to a capital military commission, so these men are eligible for the death penalty.
The five men have been charged before, but charges were dropped against them in 2009 when President Barack Obama ordered a review of the Military Commissions process, hoping to move the process to a civilian court.
In May 2011, military prosecutors filed charges against all five again. Wednesday's announcement means that the convening authority has agreed they should stand trial.
The next step is for the chief judge of the Military Commissions Trial Judiciary to assign a military judge to the case and for a date to be set for their arraignment. According to the rules, they are supposed to be arraigned within 30 days of being served the charges.
They will be tried at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Jim Miklaszewski is the chief Pentagon correspondent for NBC News and Courtney Kube is the Pentagon producer.
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Guy looks like he is closer to ape than human. Yuck.
You mean that they're not dead yet?? That was over 10 years ago! Is Justice slow or what?!?
It is very difficult if not impossible to interrogate a corpse!
Finally we get military tribunals, not criminal court prosecution, which is a foolish notion.
Hang these dirtbags and be done with it.
death is what they want , i agree with the other posters , let them rot in a state prison getting jumped on and raped everyday !!!
So they will all die for the cause and become martyrs. Not so fast my friends! Death by firing squad but first
the bullets will be dipped in pig fat. Next they will have a nice ham and cheese sandwich on JEWISH rye shoved
in their mouth and duct tape their mouths shut so they can't spit it out. I guarantee NO 72 VIRGINS. Shamed for
all eternity. Not bad!
Shoot them! First, dip bullets in pig fat. Next shove a ham and swiss on Jewish rye in their mouth and duct
tape it shut. I guarantee no 72 virgins. Not bad!
Make throwing the switch a PowerBall prize. I'd buy tickets for a chance of being the executioner. The money that would be raised could go a long way toward defraying the cost of the room and board bill for these camel turds.
Just had a BAD thought! I am not sure how this all lays out but...Obama is not real kean on DOJ(Zimmerman is still at large) and The Supreme Court(you know that pesky Medical thing). He just put Petraeus in there and these guys are going to Petraeus's court now. Just sayin, and like I said not sure on how all this works but...
If Obama and Holder have their way, these murderers will walk. Holder tried to get their trial in New York so they could have the same rights as American citizens. Holder represented his Gitmo friends before Obama appointed him to the unJustice Department.
5 suspects?! You mean George Bush Jr. and Sr.?? Dick Cheney?? Condoleeza Rice?? Collin Powell??
How can some of you idiots still not see this was committed by our own government?
Do you understand the twin towers fell in 11 seconds? Thats free fall speed. Thats as fast as an apple dropped off the top of the building. That means there was no resistance from below, which means bombs were in the building. Do your research!
SOOO MANNNYY firefighters, police officers and workers of the building reported multiple explosions 10 minutes before the building fell on mulitiple floors.. the basement, floor 21, floor 48... Do your research!!!
Cmon Sheep.. Open your eyes--- #biggestprankofalltime
Missed a couple doses of medication? Time to get back in the ole straight jacket.
The one thing I have noticed about the men over there...they are butt ass ugly,,,No wonder the woman hid their faces,,,they don't want to be seen with there husband
Atlas they use a different grade of steel the higher they went when they built the Twins....Dumb ass what they heard was the bodies of people who rather jump than burn up....do your research dumb ass
bunch if you could see under the veils you would understand why the men blow themselves up. And no one needs to defend the fact that US citizens were NOT resposible for the towers comming down. I mean wow, I am parinoid but that is just nuts.
To bunchof@!$%#--
Uuummm actually the steel was rated to handle 4,000 degrees for over 5 hrs and jetfuel only burns at 3500 and for only the first 5 mins.. After 5 mins of burning drops to 900 degrees... But the towers fell in barely an hour.. Retard......
Bodies?!?! No. FIREFIGHTERS know what explosions in the floor above them sound like. Google it. Firefighters speak about 911 explosions... Maybe your heavy eyes will open slightly when you see people who were THERE giving their professional opinion... If your uneducated, you shouldnt speak-
Do any of you know about NORAD?! And the war game that was going on on Sept. 11th?!? There are WAYY TOOO MAAANNYYY THINGS to discuss to educate you blind sheep.....If all the facts you have, you get from the media, you will not know the full story... Its the same as Pearl Harbor, 20yrs later, it was released the government knew and could have prevented Pear harbor attacks, but they let it happen so the American people would fully back the cause. Are you all this naive?
Go watch FOX you mindless drones--
Atlas, I know you are tired and all from holding up the world, but you got to get back on the meds. You have been sold a bucket of horse hockey. We have in Gitmo those responsible for 9/11.
This is one thing about this country that drives me crazy. There should be no doubt as to the outcome of this. Yes,they are entitled to a trial. After this trial,they have the right...to be executed! There should be no question.
What would the 2,976 murdered want for these 5 guys?
I think they would want for them to rot the rest of their natural lives in prison. Death penalty is too sweet. And after all we are not life takers by choice.
Along the same line-these guys did this partly to get to paradise-deprive them of it! Give them the rest of their natural lives in hell-or as close to it as we can make it for them. I know, make each on of them share a cell with one of the Catholic priests convicted of baby raping, for life. I do have my moments.
The FEDS have a few prison they don t like to talk about,sends these MOTHERS to one of the Feds favorite prisons. The death penalty is painless. Wouldn t you like to see these guys die several times a day,everyday,day after day..
out them on a pig farm for the rest of there life with only pig meat to eat
and lock them up at night, each in a cell with his own Catholic priest baby raper.
All I ever wanted to know about islam I LEARNED AFTER 911!!!!! alie ackbar can go phucq himself and all other aribic ignornorant imbeciles!!!!!!!!!!
And it's only taken 10 years. These guys will die of old age before they impose the death penalty. At least in the Middle East justice is swift.
It's been TEN YEARS---why are they still alive and being fed and cared for by every US TAX PAYING CITIZEN--including the realtives of those they killed!!!
Miserable assassins should died, that's for sure! these are the worse of them!
I cant believe the grease ball SOBs are still breathing the free stuff and I bet there is not a person out there that could answer that, other then Obama, he knows!!
you mean the monkey trial, these guys were waterboarded over 83 times that means they were wwaterboard that manytimes to say something they didn't do. If anyone was waterboarded 83 times if they told you would be george washington, after 40th time you would beleive you were george washington. How abou opening to public view so we can see the show of the century next the the bil laden was caught story, then through a navy carrier that no one saw. What we really need is a real 9/11 invesitgation not a Bush white wash because he story we were fed by the NWO elite media is so wrong. So now you can get beat 83 times to confess to a murder you didnt tdo , so unconstitutional. even in war this against any intentational law, and is crime against humanity. why is the court preceeding so private, they should be open.
im sure they want to put them to death because then they think 9//11 would die with them not so,because science does not beleive the story the gov is selling.
They "could face death penalty"... It makes me sick to see them still alive after 10 years and 7 months...I'm against the death penalty. In most "domestic" cases are a crime of passion. This was an act of TERRORIST WAR. The "leader" gave a "proud" full confession. What hurts the most is the @@SSHOLE who flew the plane into the first TOWER, was in a Israeli prison for life and let out by a United Nations prisoner exchange act...Wish General MacArthur or President Truman were in charge... They would "ALL" be dead inside of a year... God Bless America ... AGAIN !
Oh, for crying out loud, try these monsters and, with luck, they will all be executed. Do not place them in general pop - they will not hesitate to kill non-violent criminals or, worse, prison personnel. As far as no parole, there is then no incentive to behave decently. Not, mind you, that I believe they could. Just get on with it. For me, Obama just lost my vote.