Agreements with Mohammed and two alleged accomplices introduced Wednesday had appeared to have moved their long-running instances towards decision — however sparked anger amongst some family members of these killed on September 11, 2001.
“I’ve decided that, in mild of the importance of the choice to enter into pre-trial agreements with the accused… accountability for such a choice ought to relaxation with me,” Austin mentioned in a memorandum addressed to Susan Escallier, who oversaw the case.
“I hereby withdraw from the three pre-trial agreements that you just signed on July 31, 2024 within the above-referenced case,” the memo mentioned.
The instances in opposition to the 9/11 defendants have been slowed down in pre-trial maneuverings for years whereas the accused remained held on the Guantanamo Bay navy base in Cuba.
The New York Instances reported this week that Mohammed, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi had agreed to plead responsible to conspiracy in trade for a life sentence, as a substitute of going through a trial that would result in their executions.A lot of the authorized jousting surrounding the boys’s instances has centered on whether or not they might be tried pretty after having undergone methodical torture by the hands of the CIA within the years after 9/11.
