A military judge is reconsidering a controversial plea deal involving 9/11 terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co-defendants.
An anonymous official informed The Associated Press on Wednesday that the decision to reinstate the deals was made by Air Force Col. and Judge Matthew McCall. The U.S. military has not announced the ruling yet.
The defendants are currently incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the deals were approved by the top official of the Guantanamo military commission.
Fox News reported that if the plea bargains succeed, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who is suspected of being the principal architect of the 9/11 terror attacks and two co-defendants would avoid the death penalty in exchange for guilty pleas.
The plea deals which were revoked by the Pentagon at the direction of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in July have been widely condemned by 9/11 victims and U.S. politicians.
“Effective immediately, in the exercise of my authority, I hereby withdraw from the three pretrial agreements that you signed on July 31, 2024,” a letter from Austin stated.
“Joe Biden, Kamala Harris have weaponized the Department of Justice to go after their political opponents, but they’re cutting a sweetheart deal with 9/11 terrorists,” Sen. J.D. Vance said.
Terry Strada, the national chair of 9/11 Families United, condemned the plea bargains to Fox News Digital earlier this year.
“[The terrorists] committed this heinous crime against the United States,” Strada said. “They should have faced the charges, faced the trial and faced the punishment. Since when do the people responsible for murder get to call the shots?”
Why—under the Biden administration—has the death penalty been taken off the table for the architect of 9/11?
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) August 1, 2024
Biden and Harris won’t arrest pro-Hamas terrorists, and now they’re cutting plea deals with terrorists pic.twitter.com/dcUyYGjUJu
This is shameful. 9/11 masterminds don’t deserve a plea deal, they deserve the death penalty. https://t.co/aWa21Th5r0
— Rep. Mark Green (@RepMarkGreen) November 8, 2024
Plea deals revived for alleged 9/11 mastermind and others#pentagon #lloydaustin #military pic.twitter.com/aLdqVsXeE4
— Military Times (@MilitaryTimes) November 8, 2024
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I thought those zealots were proud and happy to die for their glorious cause. Or is that just for useful idiots?
These men murdered and maimed thousands of Americans without mercy, and destroyed private and government property, and the democrat judge is denying their just punishment “He who sheds man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed”
What more could you ask for from the Biden / Harris Administration Team than to kick all Americans in the face over this 911 plea deal; having served in my local Fire Rescue Department during that time frame I find it appalling that anyone would even consider a plea deal like this, they deserve the death penalty, plain and simple!
So we have become so weak that we give these ass holes a pass. Did everyone forget Siran Siran. That ass got to rot and justifiably so in a solitary cell. These asses need to be torched and slowly put to death to pay back for some of the pain they inflicted.