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Prosecutors Won’t Try to Reinstate Key 9/11 Confession Taken After Torture

The military’s lawyers said they feared an appeal could delay the trial of the man accused of masterminding the attacks, which is scheduled to start in mid-2028.

© Marisa Schwartz Taylor/The New York Times

The U.S. government had spent years defending the statements to F.B.I. agents at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in 2007 as untainted by the brutal treatment and isolation of Mr. Mohammed in secret overseas C.I.A. prisons, including 183 rounds of waterboarding.
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Judge Throws Out Key 9/11 Confession as Tainted by Torture

Prosecutors argued the statements by the defendant, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, were crucial evidence for the eventual death-penalty trial.

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the man accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks, at Guantánamo Bay in January 2022 in a photo provided by his lawyers.
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Judge Handling 9/11 Case Sets June 2028 Trial Date

Prosecutors had asked for an earlier start. The judge has not yet ruled on several issues related to the defendants’ torture in C.I.A. prisons.

© Richard Perry/The New York Times

The entrance to Camp Delta, where terrorism suspects are held, at the Guantánamo Bay detention center in Cuba in 2010.
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