GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, will likely appear in court in the death penalty case’s pretrial proceedings for the first time since February 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic largely shut down the specialized island war court operations in Guantanamo Bay.
In the two decades since 19 al Qaeda terrorists crashed hijacked planes into the World Trade Center buildings, the Pentagon, and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing nearly 3,000 people, the five men believed to be responsible for the planning and execution of the plot have yet to stand trial. The key question of whether confessions obtained by the FBI after their CIA custody should be admissible remains unresolved.
