President Obama's efforts to hold Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's trial in New York foundered in the face of political and public opposition and it will now be held at a military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay, as previously planned.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other defendants were being arraigned on charges that include terrorism and murder, the first time in more than three years that they appeared in public. They could get the death penalty if convicted in the attacks that
SAMANTHA GROSS, AP, VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press At left a March 1, 2003 photo obtained by the Associated Press shows Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan.
The military trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 defendants could become the most important US war crimes tribunal since Nuremberg. But at their arraignment Saturday, the five men staged a protest. By Warren Richey, Staff writer / May 5
The hearing was particularly long because Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-defendants being tried on murder and terrorism charges protested the hearing by refusing to listen to simultaneous Arabic translations of the proceedings through headphones.
