Plea deal for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed thrown out by appeals court

[Doc7505]

Plea deal for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed thrown out by appeals court​

Plea deal for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed thrown out by appeals court

The decision undoes an attempt to wrap up more than two decades of military prosecution beset by legal and logistical troubles.

www.cbsnews.com

11 Jul 2025

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 Qaeda'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.
Relatives of the Sept. 11 victims were split on the plea deal. Some objected to it, saying a trial was the best path to justice and to gaining more information about the attacks, while others saw it as the best hope for bringing the painful case to a conclusion and getting some answers from the defendants.
~Snip~
The legal advocacy group Center for Constitutional Rights criticized the decision, saying that without the plea agreements, the case will never be resolved.
"This decision will ensure nothing but a continued lack of justice and accountability for everyone involved in the 9/11 military trial at Guantánamo," attorney Wells Dixon said in a statement.


Commentary:
Should he get a medal for committing the worse act of terrorism on U.S. soil, and still hasn’t bean able to be convicted 24 years later? Yes, he’s been in jail for 22 years, but is that it?
If there is anyone more deserving of being hung be piano wire, i don't think so.
The execution of khalid sheikh mohammed is long over due. Any discussion of a plea deal is out of the question.
This guy is proud of what he did and the more time that he lives only makes him stronger in his belief.
You shoot mad dogs..

 

[candycorn]

Plea deal for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed thrown out by appeals court​

Plea deal for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed thrown out by appeals court

The decision undoes an attempt to wrap up more than two decades of military prosecution beset by legal and logistical troubles.

www.cbsnews.com

11 Jul 2025

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 Qaeda'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.
Relatives of the Sept. 11 victims were split on the plea deal. Some objected to it, saying a trial was the best path to justice and to gaining more information about the attacks, while others saw it as the best hope for bringing the painful case to a conclusion and getting some answers from the defendants.
~Snip~
The legal advocacy group Center for Constitutional Rights criticized the decision, saying that without the plea agreements, the case will never be resolved.
"This decision will ensure nothing but a continued lack of justice and accountability for everyone involved in the 9/11 military trial at Guantánamo," attorney Wells Dixon said in a statement.


Commentary:
Should he get a medal for committing the worse act of terrorism on U.S. soil, and still hasn’t bean able to be convicted 24 years later? Yes, he’s been in jail for 22 years, but is that it?
If there is anyone more deserving of being hung be piano wire, i don't think so.
The execution of khalid sheikh mohammed is long over due. Any discussion of a plea deal is out of the question.
This guy is proud of what he did and the more time that he lives only makes him stronger in his belief.
You shoot mad dogs..

Do you think the Trump DOJ will ever put him on trial?

 

[shockedcanadian]

Plea deal for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed thrown out by appeals court​

Plea deal for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed thrown out by appeals court

The decision undoes an attempt to wrap up more than two decades of military prosecution beset by legal and logistical troubles.

www.cbsnews.com

11 Jul 2025

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 Qaeda'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.
Relatives of the Sept. 11 victims were split on the plea deal. Some objected to it, saying a trial was the best path to justice and to gaining more information about the attacks, while others saw it as the best hope for bringing the painful case to a conclusion and getting some answers from the defendants.
~Snip~
The legal advocacy group Center for Constitutional Rights criticized the decision, saying that without the plea agreements, the case will never be resolved.
"This decision will ensure nothing but a continued lack of justice and accountability for everyone involved in the 9/11 military trial at Guantánamo," attorney Wells Dixon said in a statement.


Commentary:
Should he get a medal for committing the worse act of terrorism on U.S. soil, and still hasn’t bean able to be convicted 24 years later? Yes, he’s been in jail for 22 years, but is that it?
If there is anyone more deserving of being hung be piano wire, i don't think so.
The execution of khalid sheikh mohammed is long over due. Any discussion of a plea deal is out of the question.
This guy is proud of what he did and the more time that he lives only makes him stronger in his belief.
You shoot mad dogs..

I have to wonder though, can a planner who didn't actually commit the crime himself be charged with murder? I am a stickler for.the law and if he didnt commit the murder directly can he only rreceive life in prison but NOT capital punishment? if he was behind it he shouldnt see the light of day, but he himself didnt commit murder/terrorism, or how is the law defined?

 

[AZrailwhale]

I have to wonder though, can a planner who didn't actually commit the crime himself be charged with murder? I am a stickler for.the law and if he didnt commit the murder directly can he only rreceive life in prison but NOT capital punishment? if he was behind it he shouldnt see the light of day, but he hhimself didnt commit murder/terrorism, or how id the law defined?

There is precedent. Charles Manson was convicted of both murder and conspiracy to commit murder for the “helter skelter” Tate-LaBianca murders back in 1969. Even though he took no part in any of the murders.

 

[Polishprince]

I have to wonder though, can a planner who didn't actually commit the crime himself be charged with murder? I am a stickler for.the law and if he didnt commit the murder directly can he only rreceive life in prison but NOT capital punishment? if he was behind it he shouldnt see the light of day, but he himself didnt commit murder/terrorism, or how is the law defined?

In the USA, absolutely.


If a couple of guys go to rob someone, and the would be victim pulls out his own rod and shoots one of them dead, the 2nd accomplice as well as the fellow sitting in the getaway car can both be charged and convicted of capital murder. Even if they were using a toy gun for the heist.

 

[Doc7505]

I have to wonder though, can a planner who didn't actually commit the crime himself be charged with murder? I am a stickler for.the law and if he didnt commit the murder directly can he only rreceive life in prison but NOT capital punishment? if he was behind it he shouldnt see the light of day, but he himself didnt commit murder/terrorism, or how is the law defined?

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It must indicate that those involved in the conspiracy knew of the plan and intended to break the law.
In many legal systems, a principal in a conspiracy can be held just as culpable as those who physically commit the crime, even if they were not directly involved in the act itself. This is because conspiracy laws often treat all participants in the planning and execution of a crime as equally responsible.

 

[theHawk]

Do you think the Trump DOJ will ever put him on trial?

In this day and age a Democrat jury would let him walk. They hate America and see these types as heroes. All he has to do is say “we did it for Palestine” and nearly every Dem would clap like seals.

 

[The Duke]

I have to wonder though, can a planner who didn't actually commit the crime himself be charged with murder? I am a stickler for.the law and if he didnt commit the murder directly can he only rreceive life in prison but NOT capital punishment? if he was behind it he shouldnt see the light of day, but he himself didnt commit murder/terrorism, or how is the law defined?

What did they do with Manson?

There is precedent. Charles Manson was convicted of both murder and conspiracy to commit murder for the “helter skelter” Tate-LaBianca murders back in 1969. Even though he took no part in any of the murders.

Yep. Exactly what came to mind.

 

[LuckyDuck01!]

Plea deal for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed thrown out by appeals court​

Plea deal for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed thrown out by appeals court

The decision undoes an attempt to wrap up more than two decades of military prosecution beset by legal and logistical troubles.

www.cbsnews.com

11 Jul 2025

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 Qaeda'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.
Relatives of the Sept. 11 victims were split on the plea deal. Some objected to it, saying a trial was the best path to justice and to gaining more information about the attacks, while others saw it as the best hope for bringing the painful case to a conclusion and getting some answers from the defendants.
~Snip~
The legal advocacy group Center for Constitutional Rights criticized the decision, saying that without the plea agreements, the case will never be resolved.
"This decision will ensure nothing but a continued lack of justice and accountability for everyone involved in the 9/11 military trial at Guantánamo," attorney Wells Dixon said in a statement.


Commentary:
Should he get a medal for committing the worse act of terrorism on U.S. soil, and still hasn’t bean able to be convicted 24 years later? Yes, he’s been in jail for 22 years, but is that it?
If there is anyone more deserving of being hung be piano wire, i don't think so.
The execution of khalid sheikh mohammed is long over due. Any discussion of a plea deal is out of the question.
This guy is proud of what he did and the more time that he lives only makes him stronger in his belief.
You shoot mad dogs..

when a person deliberately plans and orchestrates a series of violent attacks that kills 2,977 civilians, if that doesn't merit a death sentence, nothing does.
His partner in crime, Osama bin Laden's basic claim for killing people, "infidels had come to Saudi Arabia." He hated "non-believers" with a passion and when the Saudi government requested the US military presence to protect the oil production, Bin Laden flipped. The Clerics there continually preached hate toward all non-believers, so it was easy to recruit Saudis for the attack. When word got out of the attack, Muslims across the globe were singing, dancing and praising the "martyrs."
That religion has to go!!!

 

[The Duke]

He should have been executed years ago.

 

[Doc7505]

In this day and age a Democrat jury would let him walk. They hate America and see these types as heroes. All he has to do is say “we did it for Palestine” and nearly every Dem would clap like seals.

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If left up to Scotus Associate Justice KBJ, she'd probably let him cop a plea, release hime and award him a few million bucks.

 

[candycorn]

In this day and age a Democrat jury would let him walk. They hate America and see these types as heroes. All he has to do is say “we did it for Palestine” and nearly every Dem would clap like seals.

Meanwhile back in reality...the Trump DOJ is negotiating a plea bargain.

 

[Meathead]

Plea deal for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed thrown out by appeals court​

Plea deal for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed thrown out by appeals court

The decision undoes an attempt to wrap up more than two decades of military prosecution beset by legal and logistical troubles.

www.cbsnews.com

11 Jul 2025

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 Qaeda'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.
Relatives of the Sept. 11 victims were split on the plea deal. Some objected to it, saying a trial was the best path to justice and to gaining more information about the attacks, while others saw it as the best hope for bringing the painful case to a conclusion and getting some answers from the defendants.
~Snip~
The legal advocacy group Center for Constitutional Rights criticized the decision, saying that without the plea agreements, the case will never be resolved.
"This decision will ensure nothing but a continued lack of justice and accountability for everyone involved in the 9/11 military trial at Guantánamo," attorney Wells Dixon said in a statement.


Commentary:
Should he get a medal for committing the worse act of terrorism on U.S. soil, and still hasn’t bean able to be convicted 24 years later? Yes, he’s been in jail for 22 years, but is that it?
If there is anyone more deserving of being hung be piano wire, i don't think so.
The execution of khalid sheikh mohammed is long over due. Any discussion of a plea deal is out of the question.
This guy is proud of what he did and the more time that he lives only makes him stronger in his belief.
You shoot mad dogs..

No Idea why he hasn't been drawn and quartered yet, that and being waterboarded on a daily basis.

 

[there4eyeM]

More than two decades? How is that possible?

 

[Meathead]

Meanwhile back in reality...the Trump DOJ is negotiating a plea bargain.

Yeah, we execute him, wash him up and dump into the Mexican side of the Gulf of America.

 

[toobfreak]

Should he get a medal for committing the worse act of terrorism on U.S. soil, and still hasn’t bean able to be convicted 24 years later?

Point well taken. Seriously, if we still cannot conclude the legal process and convict a guy involved in the most heinous crime against the USA in 250 years after trying for 24 years, then our legal system is truly broken.

Sadly, the victims of his crime may be dead before they see this guy brought to justice because all of the irons in the legal fire are more married to the /process/ of trying the guy than they are swift and sure justice for the families involved.

 

[toobfreak]

He should have been executed years ago.

They should execute him, dehydrate the corpse and grind it up into dust, put the dust in several thousand tiny bottles and sell each for a high price.

I mean, who wouldn't want a little bottle full of some of the dust of the body of the executed mastermind of 9/11?

There are millions to be made I tell you.

We could send a few bottles of the Sheikh to the Ayatollah just to piss him off and put the fear of Trump in him.

 

[1srelluc]

He should have been executed years ago.

And hung in public for everyone to see.

 

[Doc7505]

Do you think the Trump DOJ will ever put him on trial?

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Perhaps you forget that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed also claimed he beheaded WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl.
His confession to that heinous act wins him an execution. Then there's his confession of active conspiracy guilt in the 9-11 plot.
I would gladly pull the lever on the floor that drops him at the end of a rope.
Lethal injection is too good for him.
Read more:

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: I beheaded American reporter - CNN.com

Admitted 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told a U.S. military tribunal he personally beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002, the Pentagon revealed Thursday.

www.cnn.com

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9/11 Mastermind: I Killed Daniel Pearl

Al Qaeda No. 3 Says He Beheaded Wall Street Journal Reporter

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Independent thinker]

Plea deal for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed thrown out by appeals court​

Plea deal for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed thrown out by appeals court

The decision undoes an attempt to wrap up more than two decades of military prosecution beset by legal and logistical troubles.

www.cbsnews.com

11 Jul 2025

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 Qaeda'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.
Relatives of the Sept. 11 victims were split on the plea deal. Some objected to it, saying a trial was the best path to justice and to gaining more information about the attacks, while others saw it as the best hope for bringing the painful case to a conclusion and getting some answers from the defendants.
~Snip~
The legal advocacy group Center for Constitutional Rights criticized the decision, saying that without the plea agreements, the case will never be resolved.
"This decision will ensure nothing but a continued lack of justice and accountability for everyone involved in the 9/11 military trial at Guantánamo," attorney Wells Dixon said in a statement.


Commentary:
Should he get a medal for committing the worse act of terrorism on U.S. soil, and still hasn’t bean able to be convicted 24 years later? Yes, he’s been in jail for 22 years, but is that it?
If there is anyone more deserving of being hung be piano wire, i don't think so.
The execution of khalid sheikh mohammed is long over due. Any discussion of a plea deal is out of the question.
This guy is proud of what he did and the more time that he lives only makes him stronger in his belief.
You shoot mad dogs..

This is beyond ridiculous.