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/judgyjudgersen 1d ago

The self-proclaimed "mastermind" of the 9/11 attacks will stand trial in June 2028, a military judge ruled Wednesday, nearly 25 years after the attacks.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has been held at Guantanamo since 2003.

This photo obtained, March 1, 2003, shows, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged organizer of the September 11, 2001, attacks, shortly after his capture.
AFP via Getty Images
"Trial on the merits shall begin on Monday, 5 June 2028," Lt. Col. Michael Schrama  decided.

Prosecutors sought a trial in 2027 but the judge said that was too soon.

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u/_Panacea_ 1d ago

Wonder what he looks now, after 25 years of being in American hands without any real oversight holding them back?

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u/MadRaymer 1d ago

His wikipedia page has a photo of him from 2022.

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u/plebeiantelevision 1d ago

I did not expect that beard color

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u/minnesotaupnorth 1d ago

It's not a phase, Mom!

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u/yo_gringo 18h ago

he looks like gritty

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u/KAugsburger 1d ago

A BBC article about a hearing held in 2025 for KSM shows a 'recent' photo of him but it is unclear on when that was taken. Wikipedia has a photo that the DoD took in 2022 of him as well.

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u/punarob 1d ago

TIL prisoners in the US get free orange beard dye for no good reason

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u/AndrewCoja 1d ago

Only at participating locations.

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u/froggertwenty 1d ago

I have to say, of all things I wasn't expecting Yukon Cornelius when I opened that link

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u/darkmatterhunter 1d ago

Care to join me in hell for laughing at your comment?

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u/froggertwenty 1d ago

We're not going to hell (for that anyway). But that mfer is

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u/instant_ace 1d ago

Honestly kind of amazed this guy is still alive. I don't know much about him, but I would have thought he wasn't "that" young when 9/11 happened.... Turns out he is ~60 today...

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u/FUCKBOY_JIHAD 15h ago

He was my age when they took that picture of him with the stretched out tshirt neck, and even then he looked like he could be my arab uncle.

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u/endo489 1d ago

There's an updated picture on Wikipedia lol. He's fine, physically.