If Mohammed, the alleged plotter behind the 11 September terrorist attacks, had pleaded guilty on Friday, he could have avoided the death penalty. View on euronews

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed are urging a federal appeals panel to let his scheduled guilty plea Friday n Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, go forward in a plea agreement that would spare him and two co-defendants the risk of the death penalty in al-Qaida's notorious Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The Biden administration succeeded in halting a plea hearing for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

The Biden administration has asked a federal appeals court to block a plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that would spare him the risk of the death penalty.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ... of the 9/11 prosecutions, Mohammed’s lawyers argued in a filing to a District of Columbia federal appeals ...

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was set to plead guilty on Friday. The Biden administration succeeded in blocking a plea deal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on Thursday after a federal court issued an ...

Lawyers for the accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed are urging a federal appeals panel to let his scheduled guilty plea in the attacks go forward. That comes as the

The Biden administration succeeded in blocking a plea deal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on Thursday ... from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said.

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, faced scrutiny over his level of experience and personal conduct in a

During the confirmation hearing, Hegseth said if confirmed as defence secretary, he would follow the law. When King asked, “Are you OK with waterboarding”, Hegseth said, “Senator, the law of the land is that waterboarding is not legal.”

The Biden administration has succeeded in temporarily blocking alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed from entering a guilty plea that would spare him the risk of execution for Al Qaeda's Sept.

Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks on the US, had been due to plead guilty this week - more than 23 years after almost 3,000 people were killed in what the US government has described as "the most egregious criminal act on American soil in modern history".