A Plea Deal for the 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:18.4 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:23.8 | The U.S. takes the death penalty off the table for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the man who planned |
| 0:28.8 | the September 11 attacks in exchange for his guilty plea. |
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| 0:40.4 | Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:43.7 | We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Bill McGurn, and Kim Strassal. |
| 0:49.2 | In a letter dated July 31st from the Department of Defense Office of the Chief Prosecutor for Military |
| 0:55.6 | Commissions and addressed to the families of September 11, 2001 victims. |
| 1:01.9 | The prosecution said this, in exchange for the removal of the death penalty is a possible punishment |
| 1:06.9 | These three accused have agreed to plead guilty to all of the charged offenses including the murder of the 2,976 people listed in the charge |
| 1:16.4 | sheet and to be later sentenced by a panel of military officers. |
| 1:20.8 | They added later on in the letter, we recognize that the status of the case in general and this news in particular will understandably elicit intense emotion and we also realize that the decision to enter into a pre-trial agreement will be met with mixed |
| 1:33.4 | reactions among the thousands of family members who lost loved ones. |
| 1:38.2 | But they add that this is their reasoned and good faith judgment, that this resolution is the best path to finality and |
| 1:45.2 | justice in this case. But what do you make of this and the details of this |
| 1:50.7 | agreement and the decision to enter into it by the US? |
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