US to Seek Death Penalty Against Six 9/11 Detainees
Posted on February 11, 2008 - Filed Under conflict, terrorism |
Military prosecutors announced today that they will seek the death penalty against those suspected of conspiring in the plot that led to the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11, 2001.
The charges, to be filed in the military commission system at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, involve six prisoners, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the former senior aide to Osama bin Laden who has said he was the principal planner of the plot.
According to the International Herald Tribune, “The case could begin to fulfill a longtime goal of the Bush administration: establishing culpability for the terrorist attacks of 2001. It could also help the administration make its case that some detainees at Guantánamo, where 275 men remain, would pose a threat if they are not held at Guantánamo or elsewhere.
Officials have long said that a half-dozen people held at Guantánamo played essential roles in the plot directed by Mohammed, from would-be hijackers to financiers.”
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