Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is accused of being one of the major architects of 9/11, has seemingly floated the possibility of becoming part of a suit against Saudi Arabia in an effort to avoid the death penalty. Mohammed, who has previously expressed his desire to die as a martyr, has changed his tone to avoid a death sentence at the hands of a military commission in Guantanamo Bay, where he is currently being housed.

The suit, filed Friday in a New York federal court by victims of the 9/11 attacks, implicates Saudi Arabia as being complicit in the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people nearly 18 years ago.

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