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Appeals Court Tosses Plea Deal for Alleged 9/11 Mastermind
The New Indian Express Dharmapuri
|July 12, 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-Qaida's 2001 attacks.
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The decision by a panel of the federal appeals court in Washington, DC, 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 S
This story is from the July 12, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Dharmapuri.
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