US judge rules alleged 9/11 mastermind's confessions inadmissible
US judge rules alleged 9/11 mastermind's confessions inadmissible A US military judge ruled Friday that confessions made by alleged 9/11 attacks mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to FBI agents are inadmissible and cannot be used against him at trial, The New York Times reported. The ruling comes just before the 25th anniversary of September 11, 2001, attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New…
A US military judge has ruled that confessions made by alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to FBI agents are inadmissible in court, according to The New York Times. This decision comes just before the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania.
The ruling, made by Lieutenant Colonel Michael Schrama, follows the exclusion of statements that Mohammed made after his capture when he was held by the CIA in overseas prisons and subjected to brutal treatment, including waterboarding. Schrama cited the CIA's psychological conditioning and severe coercion, as well as the FBI's failure to inform Mohammed of his right to remain silent and consult a lawyer during subsequent interrogations at Guantanamo in 2007.
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