A US air force judge has ordered a trial for June 2028 for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three co-defendants. Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks, will appear before a US military court in what is the latest development in a long-running legal saga.
As a high-ranking member of al-Qaeda and one of Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants, Mohammed is accused of developing, directing, and orchestrating the plot to crash hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. He is also widely believed to have planned several other attacks.
Mohammed, who was captured in March 2003 and has been held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba since 2006, is among the last detainees at the facility. The US used the isolated base to hold militants captured during the War on Terror in a bid to keep the defendants from claiming rights under US law.