Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

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Person.png Khalid Sheikh Mohammed   SourcewatchRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
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Born1964-03-01
Balochistan, Pakistan, Kuwait City, Kuwait
CitizenshipBosnian,  Pakistani,  Kuwaiti
Victim of • torture
• indefinite detention
Supposed perpetrator of9-11
Officially, due to be tried in 2021

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the alleged architect of the 9/11 attacks on the US, is due for trial along with four other men (Walid bin Attash, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Ammar al-Baluchi and Mustafa al-Hawsawi) at a military court in Guantánamo Bay.[1] The trial was scheduled to start on 11 January 2021, but procedural delays – compounded by the Covid-19 pandemic closing the base – have made it a long-drawn out process. More hearings were scheduled for September 2021.[2]

KSM's lawyer, David Nevin, believes the latest hearings are timed to show the mainstream media that something is happening on the 20th anniversary of 9/11.[3]

On 31 July 2024, KSM agreed to plead guilty to avoid the death penalty.[4] His plea deal was revoked by US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin two days later.[5]


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