Prosecutors drop Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confession appeal to protect 2028 trial for alleged 9/11 mastermind
Nearly 3,000 dead. A 2007 confession tossed. The trial is now June 5, 2028.
Summary
- Fox News reports military prosecutors will not appeal a judge's suppression of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's 2007 statements, so those FBI statements cannot be used at trial.
- A prosecution liaison told victims in a Friday letter that an appeal could jeopardize the June 5, 2028 trial date, a week before the 25th anniversary of attacks that killed nearly 3,000, sources told the New York Post.
- Lt. Col. Michael Schrama set the date last month, then suppressed the confession citing severe coercion and no chance to consult a lawyer. Mohammed has been held at Guantanamo since 2003. Co-defendants Walid bin Attash, Mustafa al-Hawsawi, and Ammar al-Baluchi are set for the same 2028 trial.
- Mohammed and two co-defendants had a 2024 Biden-era plea that would have spared the death penalty. The deal was revoked after public outcry, adding years of litigation. Families have asked the Trump administration to declassify files on Saudi Arabia's alleged role.
Commentary
A Brooklyn widow still sits a vinyl chair and waits a docket that should have been a verdict before her grandson learned to drive. She did not bury a name so a 2007 statement could lose 2028.
Confession out. Appeal dropped. June 5. The honest family already paid the hole. The process paid the calendar.
Look every working father who still reads 2,977 in the eye and answer this: if the mastermind's own words cannot enter the room, who still owns the next anniversary?
Comments
Gitmo since 2003. Confession 2007 tossed. June 5, 2028. Nearly 3,000. Hold that chain.
I stood a wire so a killer stayed boxed. A tossed statement is not mercy. It is a hole in the file.
Schrama. No lawyer then. Biden plea revoked. Four defendants. Publish the four.
Allied courts still treat a mass-murder plot as a clock that must end. A 27-year wait is a bill.
Bin Attash. Hawsawi. al-Baluchi. Families want Saudi files. File the four.
I still clock a tunnel at 2 a.m. I want the next trial on time, not another delay.
A Friday letter to victims is not closure. It is a warning the family already paid.
A mastermind still waiting on process is a second attack on the hour. The first indictment should have been enough.
Fox printed June 5, 2028, 2007, and Gitmo 2003. Argue those nouns.
Keep the death-eligible case. Declassify what families asked. A visitor who planned the towers is not a neighbor.
