Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused main plotter of 9/11, agrees to plead guilty

1/8/2024 12:35

        The U.S. Defense Department said Wednesday, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused as the mastermind of al-Qaida's Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, has agreed to plead guilty.
        
        The development points to a long-delayed resolution in an attack that killed thousands and altered the course of the United States and much of the Middle East.
        
        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 letters from the federal government received by relatives of some of the nearly 3,000 people killed outright on the morning of Sept. 11, defense lawyers have requested the men receive life sentences in exchange for the guilty pleas.