What the absolute heck is this?
How do we have three terror "masterminds" still AWAITING trial for 9/11?
It's been 23 years, we held them at Gitmo, didn't have any clue what to do with them, and then two decades later strike a plea deal?
Again, how is this even possible?
The alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks and two other terrorists being held in Guantánamo Bay will be spared the death penalty under a deal with prosecutors, it was revealed Wednesday.
The announcement was a bitter pill to swallow for victims' families who have anxiously awaited the conclusion of the case for nearly 24 years — many of whom felt death was the only appropriate punishment for the perpetrators of the heinous attacks.
A spokesperson for the Office of Military Commissions (OMC), which is prosecuting the case, confirmed it had entered into pre-trial agreements with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — the accused principal architect of the al Qaeda attacks — and two alleged co-conspirators, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi, all of whom have been held at the US military prison on the coast of Cuba since 2003.
21 years in prison. Masterminds behind the most deadly terror plot in US history. Then we let them languish in jail before setting them free?
In a proper justice system they would have been subject to a swift trial and the death penalty within a reasonable time frame. Not just holed up for 20 years.
And if they were held for torture questioning, what could they possibly know now, 20 years later, that would make it worth hanging onto them?
And this time, there's not even a prisoner swap or anything. We got nothing out of it.
'In exchange for removal of the death penalty as a possible punishment, these three Accused have agreed to plead guilty to all of the charged offenses, including the murder of the 2,976 people listed in the charge sheet,' said a letter signed by Rear Adm. Aaron C. Rugh, chief prosecutor for the OMC, and sent to victims' families Wednesday.
They pled guilty to nearly 3,000 murders and for that they are allowed to live indefinitely on US taxpayer dollars?
Evil.
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