A divided federal appeal court thrown out on Friday agreement It would have allowed accused sept 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Al Qaeda’s 2001 attacks to be guilty in a deal, taking the risk of execution.
decision The federal appeal in Washington attempts to wrap the military prosecution over two decades by a panel of the court, DC, legal and logical problems. This indicates that there will be no quick end of long struggle by American military and gradual administration to just justice the accused to plan one of the most deadly attacks in the United States.
The deal talked for more than two years and approved military prosecutors and a senior Pentagon official for Gwantanamo Bay, Cuban a year ago, sentenced to life without parole for Mohammed and two co-collectors a year ago.
Mohammad is accused of developing and directing the conspiracy to crashed at the World Trade Center and Pentagon. One of the kidnapped aircraft flew into a ground in Pennsylvania.
September 11 relatives of the victims were divided on the petition. Some objected to this, a test was the best way to justice and to get more information about attacks, while others saw it as the best hope to conclude a painful case and get some answers from the defendants.
The plea deal would have forced men to answer any kind of questions that are about the attacks of the families of the victims.
But the then Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Repeat the dealA decision on death sentence in an attack, as September 11 as a tomb. Only the Defense Secretary should be done. In January, US justice department filed motion The petition is trying to stop the deal.
“Allegations against respondents set their broad roles as counselors, commanders, and conspirators in the murder of 2,976 people, injuries to many citizens and military personnel, and tens of billions of dollars of property destruction,” later arguing that the court continued the court and the court. Preventing the respondents from hearing and hearing the military commission, in which the respondents will enter the arguments guilty for invalid shows agreements. ,
The lawyers argued for the defendants that the agreement was already legally effective and the Austin, who served under the President who served under the biden, was too late to try to throw it out. A military judge and a military appeal panel agreed with the defense lawyers at Gwantanamo.
However, by 2–1 votes, the US Court of Appeals for the district of Columbia Circuit found that Austin worked within his authority and blamed the military judge’s decision.
The panel first caught the agreement, while it considered the appeal, first was filed by the Biden administration and then continued under President Trump.
“After receiving the appointment authority properly, the Secretary determined that ‘the family and the American public are worth the opportunity to see the testing of the military commission’. The Secretary worked within the limits of his legal rights, and we reject his decision to another estimate, “Judge Patricia Milllet and Neomi Rao wrote.
Millet was the appointment of President Barack Obama, while Rao was appointed by Mr. Trump.
In an dissatisfaction, Judge Robert Wilkins, the appointment of an Obama, wrote, “The government has not come within a country to prove clearly and undeniably that the military judge erased.”
Brett Eagleson, who was one of the family members, who objected to the deal, called Friday’s appellate “a good win, now”.
“A petition deal allows it to be taken to a good, beautiful package, wrapped in a bow and put on a shelf and forgot it,” Egleson said, who was 15 years old, when his father, John Bruce Eagleson, executive of the shopping center, was killed in attacks. “
Brett Eagles was unnecessarily to answer questions from the September 11 families from the provisions of the deal for defendants; He thinks how true men will be. In his view, “the only valid way of getting answers and looking for the truth is through a test” and pretial facts.
Elizabeth Miller, who was 6 years old, killed her father, fire fighter Douglas Miller, among those who supported the deal.
“Of course, growing up, a test would be great initially,” he said. But “We are in 2025, and we are still on Pratiel stage.”
“I really do not think that a test is possible,” Miller said, who normally took the side of the deal due to opposition to the death penalty.
