It’s an open question what the terrorists will eventually plead to. Will they be allowed to leave Guantánamo at some point? Given the way that Joe Biden handled
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the 9/11 mastermind, and four others held at Guantánamo Bay detention center who were intimately involved in planning and executing the attacks, may never face the death penalty for their crimes, according to the FBI and Pentagon officials.
The news came in a letter to the families of victims of the terrorist attack, who were informed by the FBI that there were pre-trial negotiations underway that might lead to taking the death penalty off the table.
“The Office of the Chief Prosecutor has been negotiating and is considering entering into pre-trial agreements,” or PTAs, the letter said. It told the families that while no plea agreement “has been finalized, and may never be finalized, it is possible that a PTA in this case would remove the possibility of the death penalty.”
It was Mohammed who dreamed up “The Planes Operation” and got the personal blessing of Osama Bin Laden to carry it out. He also planned and executed “the Richard Reid shoe bombing attempt to blow up an airliner; the Bali nightclub bombing in Indonesia; the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; the murder of Daniel Pearl; and various foiled attacks as well as numerous other crimes,” according to Wikipedia.
