Judge Bars Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's 2007 FBI Confessions in 9/11 Case as Torture Taints Evidence
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Updated · The New York Times · Aug 28
Judge Bars Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's 2007 FBI Confessions in 9/11 Case as Torture Taints Evidence
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Aug 28
Summary
A military judge ruled Friday that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed’s 2007 confessions to FBI agents at Guantánamo were involuntary and cannot be used at his Sept. 11 trial.
The judge found the statements were tainted by Mohammed’s earlier torture in secret CIA prisons, where he was subjected to 183 rounds of waterboarding after his 2003 capture.
Prosecutors had called the FBI interrogations their most crucial evidence in the death-penalty case, making the ruling a major setback that could trigger an appeal and further delay proceedings.
June 5, 2028 is the newly set trial date, but the exclusion comes just before the attacks’ 25th anniversary and deepens fears among aging survivors and victims’ families that the case may never reach final resolution.