Colonel W. Shane Cohen of the Air Force announced on Friday that the trial for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other men is set for January 11, 2021
Daily Mail: Death penalty trial date for men accused of planning 9/11 is finally set: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other accomplices charged with plotting attacks that killed 2,976 people will be held at Guantanamo Bay in January 2021
* Colonel W. Shane Cohen of the Air Force announced on Friday that the trial is set for January 11, 2021
* The case will take place at Camp Justice at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba
* Date announcement was included in a 10-page trial scheduling order that also said that prosecutors had until October 1 to get material to defense teams
* Cohen's announcement marks the first time that a trial judge in the case actually established a date
* Prosecutors had tried to get the ball rolling with two previous judges after the 2012 arraignment of the five men
A 2021 date has been established for the death-penalty trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men charged as the masterminds behind the September 11 attack in New York City.
Colonel W. Shane Cohen of the Air Force announced on Friday that the trial is set for January 11, 2021. The case will take place at Camp Justice at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba.
Khalid Sheikh (also spelled as Shaikh) Mohammed is said to be the architect behind the plot that killed 2,976 in New York City, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania.
Cohen set the date so that a military jury could be selected, the New York Times reports. The selection process is said to take months, with various military personnel having to be flown in by groups to the base.
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WNU Editor: This is so long overdue.
