Account
For the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, a fellow Guantanamo inmate now facing trial was too "primitive" and uneducated to consider involving him in Al Qaeda's terrorist plots.Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, once the terror network's No. 3 leader, ridiculed Salim Hamdan's credentials in testimony Friday supporting the defendant's claim that he was merely a member of Usama bin Laden's motor pool."He was not a soldier, he was a driver," Mohammed said in a four-page transcript of his written testimony.Attorneys for Hamdan presented Mohammed's account as their final evidence at the first U.S. war crimes trial since World War II. A jury of six American military officers is scheduled to hear the judge's instructions and begin deliberations on Monday.Hamdan, a Yemeni with a fourth-grade education, faces a maximum life sentence if convicted of conspiracy and supporting terrorism.During the two-week presentation of trial evidence, Hamdan's interrogators testified that he carried a pistol to protect ...
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed turned Usama bin Laden's wish to kill Americans into a reality like no one else in Al Qaeda, U.S. counterterrorism officials say. His capture ...
Inside the hunt, capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
The Pentagon has given a partial explanation to a Guantanamo mystery: How the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks managed to dye his beard.Khalid Shei...
The U.S. has identified the mastermind of the Benghazi attack, sources tell Fox News, though the individual apparently is walking free in Libya. The confirmation fro...
Obama administration will likely delay Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's trial until after midterm elections
They knelt in prayer, ignored the judge and wouldn't listen to Arabic translations as they confronted nearly 3,000 counts of murder. The self-proclaimed mastermind o...
Military prosecutors have refiled terrorism and murder charges against the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and four other men under a revamped tria...
Military preps for first Gitmo tribunal under Obama administration, but what about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ?
Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden threatened in a new audio recording released Thursday to kill any captured Americans if the U.S. executes the accused mastermind of t...
One of the consequences of abandoning a standard by which right and wrong can be judged is our increasing inability to mete out punishment that fits the crime. In fa...
They knelt in prayer, ignored the judge and wouldn't listen to Arabic translations as they confronted nearly 3,000 counts of murder. The self-proclaimed mastermind o...
Alleged Al Qaeda mouthpiece charged with conspiracy to kill Americans
Josh Meyer on the pursuit and takedown of the 9/11 mastermind
Yielding to political opposition, the Obama administration gave up Monday on trying avowed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged henchmen in civili...
Yielding to political opposition, the Obama administration gave up Monday on trying avowed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged henchmen in civili...
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE -- With Usama bin Laden and his top deputies in hiding, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is the public face of the 9/11 conspiracy. But the U.S. gove...
null
The Obama administration doesn't know yet where it's going to try Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-conspirators, Attorney General Eric Holder sa...
Report: U.S. attorney general close to decision on trial location for terror mastermind