A military judge has set June 2028 as the date for the trial against the alleged 'mastermind' of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, detained at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo, on the island of Cuba, since 2006.
"The trial on the merits of the case will begin on Monday, June 5, 2028," decided Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Michael Schrama, judge of the military commissions.
The resolution comes after Schrama rejected the start date suggested by the prosecution, January 2027, and chose to set the opening of the process approximately 17 months later.
Mohammed acknowledged in 2007, during an interrogation, that he was the 'mastermind' of the attacks that left 2,976 dead, although both he and his associates --Walid bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, and Mustafa al Hawsawi-- reported at that time having suffered torture. Before their transfer to Guantanamo, all of them spent several years confined in secret prisons of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).