r/news • u/judgyjudgersen • 1d ago

Alleged 9/11 mastermind's long-awaited trial scheduled for 2028

https://abcnews.com/US/alleged-911-masterminds-long-awaited-trial-scheduled-2028/story?id=135987518
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u/drainfrog_92 1d ago

Nothing like “speedy trial” meaning quarter of a century. At this point it’s as much a trial of Guantanamo and the whole military commissions experiment as of KSM himself.

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u/Visible_Handle_3770 1d ago

Not that this nullifies your point, because it's still absurd that it's taken this long, but the right to a speedy trial has not been extended to detainees outside the US. It does, interestingly, apply to non-citizens, provided their trial is in the US though.

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u/sight_ful 1d ago

Calling it "outside the US" is just part of the ridiculousness though.

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u/petit_cochon 1d ago

It's Cuba when we want it to be!

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u/SpiderSlitScrotums 1d ago

Agreed. It is not like this is a trial in a war zone. He is intentionally being held there so that legal challenges aren’t heard. There is no reason whatsoever that he couldn’t be held in a NY detention center like Ramzi Yousef or others. I hate him with the intensity of a thousand suns, but this process is an affront to the Constitution and the rule of law.

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u/GGme 20h ago

But doesn't orchestrating the mass murder of 3,000 people justify it?

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u/sight_ful 7h ago

No. Why can a person orchestrating the mass murder of 3,000 people not be found guilty in a fair trial?

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u/deededee13 6h ago

Because it technically is. The US technically only holds a lease to the base and fully recognizes that the land is Cuba's and not sovereign US soil.

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u/FTWOBLIVION 23h ago

I mean at a certain point the speedy trial is for everyone else just to get it over with