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9/11 plotters face capital penalty trial

By Jennifer Y Omiloli

Almost 20 years after the grusome execution of scores in the September 2011 attack on the World Trade Center, 5 of the Masterminds are to confront capital punishment preliminary.

Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four others held at the Guantanamo Bay jail camp will be tried in January 2020, a military judge at the US Navy’s Guantanamo ruled.

The January 11, 2021 date was incorporated into a booking request for pre-preliminary exercises by the military judge, Colonel Shane Cohen, the New York Times said.

The five will be the first to go on preliminary in the military commissions built up to deal with the “War on Terror” prisoners caught and sent to Guantanamo after September 11, 2001 assaults that left 2,976 individuals dead in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington.

Mohammed, Walid receptacle Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, and Mustafa al-Hawsawi were blamed for arranging and partaking in the plot brought forth by Al-Qaeda pioneer Osama Bin Laden to capture four carriers and crash them into New York’s World Trade Center and structures in Washington.

Two of the planes struck the World Trade Center, another hit the Pentagon and a fourth collided with a field in Pennsylvania after travelers, having scholarly of different flights, battled the thieves.

The five were officially accused in 2012 of scheme, assaulting regular citizens, murder infringing upon the law of war, flying machine seizing and fear mongering.

Mohammed, a Pakistan local idea to be around 54, is a key figure in the preliminary: he has been blamed for being the genius of the 9/11 plot.

He was caught in Pakistan in 2003. Gone over to the US Central Intelligence Agency, he experienced extreme torment, including continued waterboarding, as US authorities tried to get familiar with the plot and Al-Qaeda.

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