Judge rejects 9/11 suspect Khalid
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Judge rejects 9/11 suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s FBI confessions in trial

A US military judge has ruled that confessions made to FBI officials by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused of masterminding the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, cannot be used against him at trial, The New York Times reports.

This is because it has not been proven that the confessions were given voluntarily, according to documents seen by the newspaper and confirmed by lawyers.

He will stand trial in the United States from June 2028. The drawn-out trial has been marked by the question of whether the torture he was subjected to in CIA custody has affected the evidence. Some statements have previously been excluded by prosecutors, according to the newspaper.

During the 2001 attacks, terrorists hijacked commercial airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon near Washington, D.C. Nearly 3,000 people were killed.

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