Guantanamo 9/11 Suspect Hearings Face Rough Start
January 30, 2013
More than 12 years after the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States, there is still no trial date set for the alleged mastermind and four other defendants. The pretrial motions hearing under way at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is showing how difficult and complex the case is.
The case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other alleged 9/11 co-conspirators remains tangled in legal motions that are taking months to resolve - before conditions can be set for a trial to take place.
This week's sessions have focused on torture and the conditions in which the accused have been held since their arrests.
“In the American system, a trial is intended as a search for truth," explains James Connell, an attorney defending one of the suspects. "This motions hearing will begin to take a first step toward finding the truth about what happened in the torture of these men."
Lawyer requests
At issue in this set of hearings were requests by defense attorneys to spend 48 hours at the detention facility where the prisoners are held. Questions about who has the power to censor the proceedings arose Monday when someone cut the audio feed for three minutes without the judge's approval.
On Tuesday, the five suspects chose not to attend. That followed an outburst Monday when one of the suspects said he did not trust his attorneys and saw no point in coming to court.
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