OUTRAGE: 9/11 Mastermind KSM and Two Other Terrorists Awaiting Trial On Guantanamo Bay Strike Plea Deals

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Under a recent agreement with prosecutors, the orchestrator of the September 11 attacks and two other detainees at Guantánamo Bay will avoid the death penalty, it was revealed on Wednesday.

This revelation has been a severe disappointment for the families of the victims, who have been seeking closure for nearly 24 years. Many believed that the only suitable punishment for the attackers would be execution.

The Office of Military Commissions (OMC) confirmed it had reached pre-trial agreements with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged to be the main architect of the al-Qaeda attacks, along with co-defendants Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin ‘Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi. All three have been held at the US military prison in Cuba since 2003.

“In exchange for removal of the death penalty as a possible punishment, these three Accused have agreed to plead guilty to all of the charged offenses, including the murder of the 2,976 people listed in the charge sheet,” stated a letter from Rear Adm. Aaron C. Rugh, chief prosecutor for the OMC, addressed to the victims’ families.

The news that the death penalty would no longer be an option for the suspects—responsible for the deadliest terror attack on US soil that claimed nearly 3,000 lives—was a crushing blow to the victims’ families.

“I am very disappointed. We waited patiently for a long time. I wanted the death penalty — the government has failed us,” said Daniel D’Allara, whose twin brother, John D’Allara, was one of the 23 NYPD officers killed on that tragic day, in an interview with The NY Post.

Jim Smith, a retired police officer and widower of Moira Smith, the only female police officer to die on September 11, expressed his frustration: “The prosecution and families have waited 23 years to have our day in court to put on the record what these animals did to our loved ones. They took that opportunity away from us.”

“These individuals committed the worst crime in our country’s history, and they should receive the highest penalty,” Smith added.

{Matzav.com}

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  1. Curious why the victims/victim’s family members are not part of a plea deal offered to criminals for it is they who were affected, not the government. (Although in the 9/11 disaster, the government is also a factor – but that doesn’t take away that the families are too!)

  2. The fact that it took this long to get to a trial is a travesty.
    It is akin to as though the Nuremberg trials had been pushed off to 1968!
    Obligatory not comparing 9/11 with the Holocaust, just comparing one gross war criminal trial with a crimes against humanity trial.

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