Trial date set for men charged with plotting 9/11 attacks

Published August 30, 2019 6:28pm ET



Five men charged with plotting the 9/11 terror attacks, including alleged mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, will go to trial almost two decades after 2,976 people were killed.

A military judge on Friday set Jan. 11, 2021, as the beginning of a joint death-penalty trial at Guantánamo Bay, according to the New York Times. Selection of a military jury at the Navy Base in Cuba will begin on that date.

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