Next Friday will be the 25th anniversary of 9/11. It’s a day that the Rev. Doodle Harris, the new pastor at First Presbyterian Church, will never forget.
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A US military judge has set a trial date for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks in the US. US Air Force judge Lt. Col. Michael A. Schrama ordered Mohammed and three others accused of the attacks to go on trial before a military tribunal in June 2028. The ruling follows a US appeals court decision to refuse to allow Mohammed and two of his co-accused to plead guilty in exchange for avoiding a death-penalty trial. Arrested in 2003, Mohammed has been held at Guantanamo Bay since 2006 for what the US government has called “the most egregious criminal act on American soil in modern history.” Mohammed’s alleged accomplices Walid bin Attash, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, and Mustafa al-Hawsawi will also stand trial in June 2028, according to court documents. The military trial proceedings will begin with the selection of a panel consisting entirely of service members, who will act as the jury to hear the case. Mohammed is accused of presenting plans to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden that conceived the idea of training pilots to fly commercial planes into buildings. In a 26-page transcript released by the Pentagon in 2007, Mohammed is quoted as saying he was “responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z.”
