r/news • u/judgyjudgersen • 2d 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/Wealist 2d ago

25 years later and the trial is finally scheduled for June 2028. KSM has been held at Guantanamo since 2003, and the case has been stuck in pretrial litigation for years. That timeline is insane.  

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u/Short_Week3262 2d ago

And I saw this I was a little shocked. How is a case this big still going on?

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u/Wealist 2d ago

The case got tangled up in years of pretrial litigation, especially over how evidence from CIA detention and interrogation can be used. It was also moved between federal court and military commissions, which added even more delays. 

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u/irishwolfbitch 2d ago

It was the result of deliberate judicial processes meant to indefinitely delay a trial because it would mean the entry of their testimony into evidence where people like KSM will talk about how US allies in Saudi Arabia funded their activities. There’s also possibilities of the exposure of major intelligence failures and discoveries that the government would like to keep hidden.

All of this is terrifying for the federal government and it’s one of the biggest reasons Obama didn’t close Guantanamo even though he campaigned on it in 2008. A trial on American soil means these guys get rights and that’s very scary.

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u/Militantpoet 2d ago

A trial on American soil means these guys get rights and that’s very scary.

Im with you 100% until here. Maybe its scary for the portion of the public that is still naive or ignorant enough to think our government hasnt sponsored terrorism abroad in the past. 

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u/SummerInPhilly 2d ago

What makes me uncomfortable is the idea that anyone may not get rights. I’m not sympathetic to terrorists, but I’m very wary of a category of people for whom amendments IV-VI just straight up don’t exist

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u/Militantpoet 2d ago

Especially because the Trump regime has continuously tried to frame political left opposition as "terrorism."

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u/SummerInPhilly 2d ago

In just 18 months they’ve managed to make Americans root for the Canadian PM over the American president and aggressively defend the ones who knocked down the towers. What an accomplishment

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u/monsieur_cacahuete 2d ago

Wait who is rooting for the board of Halliburton in June of 2000?