The Biden administration offered plea deals last year to alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and co-conspirators Walid Bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi. All three men have been held at Guantanamo Bay since 2003.
The Biden administration is asking for a federal appeals court to temporarily block a plea deal agreement with three detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
President Joe Biden’s administration is pushing to resolve as many of the cases as possible, on its terms, before Donald Trump takes office Jan. 20.
The ruling reinstates plea agreements under which the three men would admit guilt in connection with the September 11, 2001, Al-Qaeda attacks.
The U.S. has transferred 11 Guantanamo detainee to Oman, leaving 15 at Cuba facility in the largest detainee transfer to take place during the Biden administration.
The U.S. government earlier this year entered into the plea agreements with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other 9/11 suspects, sparing them the death penalty.
Eleven Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay have been transferred to Oman, marking yet another detainee transfer from the military prison in the final days of the Biden administration.
The Biden administration has asked a federal appeals court to block a plea agreement for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co-defendants in the Sept. attacks. It comes days before the accused 9/11 mastermind's scheduled guilty plea in an agreement that would spare him the death penalty.
The Pentagon has asked a federal court to stay a plea deal for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is slated to plead guilty on Friday.
Thanks to Biden admin bungling, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed may get off with no death penalty. Joe can’t help hurting his country even as he leaves.
In the Biden administration’s latest filing, Brian Fletcher, the Justice Department’s principal deputy solicitor general, argued that the case involving the three 9/11 plotters is of “ unique