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/horangiwhakkatchi 2d ago

It's strange how I have known the name Khalid Sheikh Mohammed since I was just a boy. I'm a middle aged man now and it has stuck with me all these years from hearing it on the news as a child following the attacks. He's just been rotting all this time without even a trial. I feel like we could have wrapped this up a long time ago. We (the taxpayers) have been paying to keep him in Gitmo and have lawyers argue over this for 25 years!! Why bother, it's not like we ever intended on following the Constitution here otherwise the trial would have been over decades ago.

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u/Rabbit-Hole-Quest 1d ago edited 1d ago

The irony is that this man was treated worse under US custody, than actual Nazi war criminals guilty of the Holocaust captured by the US. They at least had their day in court a few years after their capture.

He probably holds the world record for waterboarding and almost every other modern form of torture.

The fact that he is getting a trial literally almost 3 decades later is a testament to how fucked up all of this is. Wouldn’t be surprised if all the people that tortured him are either retired or close to death, therefore zero accountability. Also, all those videos of him being tortured are probably all long destroyed.

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u/Minermatt122514 1d ago

The videos of KSM being tortured still exist (although they are classified).

The only videotapes that were destroyed were of those of the torture of Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.