Man accused of plotting Sep11 attack to plead guilty
(VOVWORLD) - The Pentagon said Wednesday that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused of masterminding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the US, has agreed to plead guilty.
 The second plane crashes into the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001. (Photo: AFP/VNA) |
This comes 16 years after the prosecution began and 23 years after the terrorist attacks.
Mohammed and two accomplices, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi, are expected to enter the pleas at the military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as soon as next week.
According to the letters sent to the federal government by the relatives of nearly 3,000 people killed on the morning of September 11, 2001, defense attorneys offered the men life sentences in exchange for pleading guilty to the murders of 2,980 people listed in the indictment.