The five accused 9/11 co-conspirators observe pretrial hearings in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on Aug. 19, 2013. Janet Hamlin Illustration
VOA: 5 Suspects in US 9/11 Attacks Still Await Trial
In the United States, the wheels of justice sometimes grind slowly, but the case against five suspects who allegedly played pivotal roles in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S. has lingered at a snail's pace.
Fifteen years or more after their apprehension, the five accused terrorists remain jailed at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo, Cuba. For a variety of reasons, U.S. authorities do not anticipate their trials will start any sooner than some time in 2020, and then could take several years to conclude.
The legal proceedings have been extraordinarily complex, with defense lawyers — a mix of civilian and military attorneys — filing hundreds of motions questioning the conduct of U.S. authorities in their apprehension, then detention and treatment of the suspects, first at secret sites in Thailand and Poland, and subsequently at Guantanamo.
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Update: Why these 9/11 monsters still haven’t faced a trial (Max Jaeger, NYPost)
WNU Editor: I will be surprised if they do face a trial in the next decade.
2 comments:
One reason for things moving so slowly is because most of these might be charged with felonies liable for a death sentence.But privately the prosecutors know that the federal death penalty system is so slow that it could take 60 years for them to be executed.So they're trying to find ways to charge them in such a way that their eventual execution can be speeded up.The fact that after more than a decade they haven't means they realised there is no way to ensure a speedy execution.If the culprits fight any death sentence their executions might be delayed into infinity.
Maybe someone should fly a plane into their compound.
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