The American press writes that as a result, the accused will avoid execution, and the US justice system will avoid a grueling trial.
The main defendant in the organization of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and two of his henchmen entered into an agreement with the military prosecutors. Thus, all three agreed to plead guilty in exchange for the removal of the death penalty from the list of possible punishments.
The New York Times reports this.
It is reported that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Mohammed Salih Mubarak bin Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al-Hawsawi agreed to plead guilty in the case of the September 11 terrorist attacks in exchange for life imprisonment instead of the death penalty.
The publication learned about the terms of the plea bargain from a letter sent to the victims' relatives by Rear Admiral Aaron Rug, the chief military prosecutor.
“In exchange for the death penalty being removed from the list of possible punishments, the three defendants agreed to plead guilty to all the crimes they are accused of, including the murder of 2,976 people,” the chief military prosecutor's letter says.
Rug admitted to the victims' relatives that this decision was not made lightly, but the prosecutor believes it is the best way to achieve justice.
The Pentagon also announced the plea bargain with the defendants, but did not disclose it details.
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The three accused of terrorist attacks spent all these years in a camp at the American base Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was arrested in 2003 in Pakistan, and in 2008, multiple charges were brought against him. The main thing is the murder of 2,796 people on September 11, 2001, when two passenger planes hijacked by suicide bombers crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York. One of the planes flew into the Pentagon building near Washington, and another crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.
American investigators claim that it was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who suggested to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden that the hijacked planes be flown into the skyscrapers, and then took part in selecting and training some of the suicide bombers. Mohammed is also believed to be involved in several other high-profile terrorist attacks.
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