US to try alleged 9/11 plotters
The five alleged plotters of September 11, 2001 attacks will be arraigned before a US military judge on June 5 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The alleged plotters are Pakistan-born Kuwaiti Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the purported key 9/11 planner, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin Attash, a Saudi Arabian; Ramzi Binalshibh of Yemen; Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, Mohammed's nephew also from Kuwait; and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi, of Saudi Arabia, AFP reports.
They were arrested between 2002 and 2003 and were detained and interrogated at the secret Central Intelligence Agency prisons outside the US for years.
They were transferred to Guantanamo in 2006, and in early May they were referred for trial by the convening authority of the military commissions set up to try US 'war on terror' detainees.
Meanwhile, the trial could face legal issues due to the CIA's admission that it subjected Mohammed to waterboarding, an interrogation technique considered torture in which water is poured over the face and into the breathing passages to stimulate drowning.
On June 5, all five will be charged with murder, terrorism and other war crimes, with Judge Ralph Kohlmann, a US marine's colonel, formally reading their charges against them allowing each of them to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty, or postpone the plea.
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