9/11 Case Suffers Major Blow As Judge Bars Khalid Shaikh Mohammed’s FBI Confessions
Washington, August 29, 2026: In a major setback for the US case against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a military judge has ruled that his confessions to FBI agents cannot be used at his trial because prosecutors failed to prove that the statements were voluntary. Mohammed is accused of masterminding the September 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon.…
A military judge has blocked key confessions by Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind behind the September 11 attacks, from being used in his upcoming 2028 trial. The judge ruled that Mohammed's statements to FBI agents in 2007 were inadmissible because they were obtained through torture and coercion. The case against Mohammed, who is accused of orchestrating the 9/11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, has been stalled since his 2012 arraignment.
This decision could delay the trial further, especially if prosecutors decide to appeal the ruling. The judge cited the "unbroken continuation of the C.I.A.’s psychological conditioning and severe coercion" during Mohammed's Guantánamo interrogations as the reason for the exclusion.
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