A military judge has ruled that plea agreements struck by alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co-defendants are valid, voiding an order by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to throw out the deals,

A judge at the military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has ruled that plea bargains struck by alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two others were valid, blocking an order by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to throw out the plea deals and continue to trial,

The agreements would spare Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two others the risk of the death penalty in exchange for the guilty pleas.

A United States military judge has ruled that plea agreements reached with the alleged plotters of the September 11, 2001, attacks are valid, reversing an order by the country’s defence minister. The order by the judge,

Judge has blocked Pentagon chief's voiding of plea deals for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, others in 9/11 case.

US Air Force colonel Matthew McCall, a military judge, ruled on Wednesday that the plea agreements made by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks, and two co-defendants,

The plea deals, which were struck in July 2024, had originally spared Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin 'Attash, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi from facing the death penalty in exchange for pleading guilty.