PENTAGON: The US Department of Defense says three of the alleged masterminds of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks have pleaded guilty to the death penalty.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Waleed Mohammed Saleh Mubarak bin Attash and Mustafa Ahmad Adam Al-Hussawi have been held without trial at the US Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for several years.
According to US news agencies, the three men will plead guilty in exchange for prosecutors agreeing not to seek the death penalty.
Terms of the plea agreement have not yet been released.
Recall that on September 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed in attacks by al-Qaeda in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, which led to attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq under the slogan of war on terror.
It was the deadliest attack on American soil since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in 1941, which killed 2,400 people.
According to the leading American newspaper, the agreement was first announced in a letter sent by prosecutors to the victims’ families.
In exchange for removing the death penalty as a possible penalty, the three accused agreed to plead guilty to all charges, including the murders of 2,976 people listed in the charge sheet, according to a letter written by Chief Prosecutor Rear Admiral Aaron Rogge. Who is
