Washington (AP) – A divided federal appeal court on Friday signed an agreement that would have given permission Accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed convicted in a deal Risk the risk of execution For the 2001 attacks of al-Qaeda.
Washington, DC tries to wrap a panel of Federal Appeals Court in DC Over two decades of military prosecution Surrounded by legal and logical troubles. 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.
Mohammed’s allegation Plot Crash kidnapped airlines at the World Trade Center and Pentagon. One of the kidnapped aircraft flew into a ground in Pennsylvania.
Men must have been forced to respond to any gender Questions that are with the families of the victims About attacks.
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.
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 had earlier caught the agreement, while it considered the appeal, First Biden filed by administration And then President Donald continued under Trump.
“Recognizing the appointment authority properly, the Secretary determined that ‘the family and the American public are worth the opportunity to look into the trials 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 Trump.
In an dissatisfaction, Judge Robert Wilkins, the appointment of an Obama, wrote, “The government has not come within a mile to prove clearly and undeniably that the military judge erased.”
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Mark Sharman, Associated Press
