17 years of procrastination for 9/11 attack Trials
17 years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks while the
accused terrorists are still awaiting trial, are still being held in detention,
and the trials still aren’t expected soon.
The Terrorists accused of murdering nearly 3,000
people with twin attacks on New York and Washington on 2001 have not been
brought to trial in the courtroom. The defendants sit in a high-security prison
nearby, waiting for a court date that is perpetually delayed.
Don’t expect justice anytime soon. The defendants
are being prosecuted via a military commission, with judge, prosecutor, jury
and some portion of the defense team drawn from the U.S. armed services. The
prosecutor, Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, proposed a start date of Jan. 7,
2019, but defense counsels objected to the calendar and the judge, Army Col.
James L. Pohl, seemed to agree.
Army Judge Col. James L. Pohl is retiring on Sept.
30 and has handed the tribunal over to Marine Col. Keith A. Parrella. He picks
up the death-penalty case against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other alleged
accomplices.
All face military execution if found guilty of
conspiring with the hijackers. The five men on trial were arrested in Pakistan
in 2002 and 2003, and for some periods were held in undisclosed CIA detention
facilities. Among them is Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the
attacks.
Such delays have been typical for the case. It has
jumped from court to court, from military to civilian to military, since the
first charges were brought in military court in June 2008.
In 4 April 2011, Defense attorneys have
signaled that if the defendants are convicted, they will argue the U.S. lacks
the moral authority to execute them because the years-long road between their
arrests and their arrival at Guantanamo included beatings, sleep deprivation,
confinement in coffin-sized boxes, and more.
In a special takes to the reference, Said Sadiq, the
political science professor in the AUC, said that the long road of the trials
is an injustice thing and so strange which lead us to believe in the theory of conspiracy.
Sadiq also believe that this trail is full of secrets,
as if the court finally accused the terrorist, the public opinion will demand
clear evidences for this accusation, which lead the US government to procrastinate
for decades.
Sadiq in another opinion suggest that the American military
authority had planned for these attacks to find a reason for its wars in the ME.
Sadiq mentioned how was the pentagon is secured during the attack.
The Procrastination
The American newspapers reported that J.W. Bush in
2006 said that the CIA detained 14 terrorists included Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,
who helped the US by providing secret information reveal another terrorist attack
planed by Qaeda.
These statements by J.W.Bush lead many adopted another
theory of conspiracy, which says those terrorists held deal with the US
government to reveal the other terrorist attacks in contrast not sent to death
penalty.
Other trails
The trials of September 11, 2001 attacks, were not
limited to this case. There were two famous cases that were quickly
adjudicated. In One of these trials the Moroccan, Zacarias Moussaoui was
accused of involvement in the attacks. Despite he was arrested before the attack
but he admitted to involvement in planning the hijacking of aircraft to attack
US targets, and since 2006, Moussaoui faces a life sentence.
The second is linked to Munir al-Motassadeq, a
Moroccan residing in Germany, who has been sentenced to prison since 2003 for
helping and helping to carry out the September 11 attacks. He was staying at
the apartment of Mohammed Atta, the bomber, in Hamburg with another group of
the organization's leaders.
The newspapers reported in early August 2018 news
that the German authorities released Munir al-Motassadeq from his prison, which
he spent years.
