- Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made a surprise decision to throw out a plea deal with accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two of his co-defendants.
- The plea deal would have eliminated the possibility death penalty sentences in exchange for guilty pleas.
- The disruption caused by the unexpected override of the plea deal was just the latest to hit the special U.S. military-run commissions and their more than decadelong effort to bring the men accused of killing nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001, to trial. Read More
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