The settlement introduced Wednesday with Mohammed and two alleged co-conspirators appeared to maneuver their long-pending circumstances towards decision, however sparked anger amongst some relations of the victims of Sept. 11, 2001.
“I’ve decided that given the significance of the choice to enter right into a pretrial settlement with the defendant… this resolution was made,” Austin mentioned in a memo to Susan Escallier. The accountability for the choice rests with me.
“I hereby revoke the three pretrial agreements you signed on July 31, 2024 within the above case,” the memorandum mentioned.
The circumstances in opposition to the 9/11 defendants, who stay detained on the Guantanamo Bay army base in Cuba, have been mired in pretrial proceedings for years.
The New York Occasions reported this week that Mohammed, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi had agreed to plead responsible to conspiracy in change for all times sentences reasonably than face trial with the potential of execution. The boys’s circumstances concentrate on whether or not they might obtain a good trial after being methodically tortured. CIA The years after 9/11.
