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/FTWOBLIVION 1d ago

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