Appeals court throws out plea deal for alleged 9/11 mastermind

[rangerrebew]

Appeals court throws out plea deal for alleged 9/11 mastermind
By Mark Sherman, The Associated Press
 Jul 11, 2025, 02:25 PM

 
A divided federal appeals court on Friday threw out an agreement that would have allowed accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to plead guilty in a deal sparing him the risk of execution for al-Qaida’s 2001 attacks.

The decision by a panel of the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., undoes an attempt to wrap up more than two decades of military prosecution beset by legal and logistical troubles. It signals there will be no quick end to the long struggle by the U.S. military and successive administrations to bring to justice the man charged with planning one of the deadliest attacks ever on the United States.


The deal, negotiated over two years and approved by military prosecutors and the Pentagon’s senior official for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a year ago, stipulated life sentences without parole for Mohammed and two co-defendants.

Mohammed is accused of developing and directing the plot to crash hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Another of the hijacked planes flew into a field in Pennsylvania.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/07/11/appeals-court-throws-out-plea-deal-for-alleged-911-mastermind/

[Canuck Conservative]

What does the US Gov't get in return?

Usually, a plea deal is done to get a guilty confession, but there's already a ton of evidence implicating this bastard.

So, the "plea deal" sounds like nothing more than a convenient way to spare him the death penalty ... let this monster fry

[Free Vulcan]

25 years after the fact, exactly what information would Mohammed have that would be of any leverage for a plea deal? Most of the main players are long dead and the landscape has completely changed simply from the technological aspect alone.

Put the guy against the wall and plug him already.