 [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
| mastermind of the 9/11 attacks for Al Qaeda, he is also indicted an outstanding terror indictment for the unsuccessful Bojinka plot to simultaneously take down multiple airliners over the Pacific Ocean in the 1990s... |
and four other accomplices charged with plotting attacks that killed 2,976 people will be held at Guantanamo Bay in January 2021.
- Colonel W. Shane Cohen of the Air Force announced on Friday that the trial is set for January 11, 2021
- The case will take place at Camp Justice at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba
- Date announcement was included in a 10-page trial scheduling order that also said that prosecutors had until October 1 to get material to defense teams
- Cohen's announcement marks the first time that a trial judge in the case actually established a date
- Prosecutors had tried to get the ball rolling with two previous judges after the 2012 arraignment of the five men
- The other men also charged include: Walid bin Attash,
| ...also Waleed bin Attash, a Yemeni who allegedly ran an al-Qaeda training camp in Logar, Afghanistan, where two of the 19 hijackers were trained. Bin Attash is believed to have been bin Laden's bodyguard. Authorities say bin Laden selected him as a hijacker, but he was prevented from participating when he was briefly detained in Yemen in early 2001... |
 Ramzi bin al-Shibh,
| ...also Ramzi Binalshibh, the unhandsome Yemeni who allegedly helped find flight schools for the hijackers, helped them enter the United States, and assisted with financing the operation. He allegedly was selected to be a hijacker and made a "martyr video" in preparation for the operation, but was unable to get a U.S. visa. He also is believed to be a lead operative for a foiled plot to crash aircraft into London's Heathrow Airport. |
Ammar al-Baluchi
| ...born in Pakistan and reared in Kuwait, KSM’s nephew is also known as Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali. He allegedly helped nine of the hijackers travel to the United States and sent them $120,000 for expenses and flight training. He is believed to have served as a key lieutenant to Mohammed in Pakistan... |
and Mustafa al-Hawsawi
| ...also Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, a Saudi who allegedly helped the hijackers with money, western clothing, traveler's checks and credit cards. Al-Hawsawi testified in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, saying he had seen Moussaoui at an al-Qaeda guesthouse in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in early 2001, but somehow was never introduced to him or conducted operations with him... |
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