The Times reports that the prosecution has proposed a bargain in which the five defendants, including the al Qaeda member Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, would avoid the death penalty in return for an admission of guilt and a sentence of life imprisonment. The magazine claims that the defendants have responded with a list of demands, one of which is the desire that they not be placed in solitary confinement for the whole of their life sentences.
It was revealed by the White House that Vice President Biden agreed with the idea made by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to reject the unified policy principles as a framework for discussions. 9/11 was, by a significant margin, the most devastating act ever carried out on American territory.
A senior official at the White House said in an email that President Trump “does not believe that accepting the joint policy principles as the basis for a pre-trial agreement would be appropriate in these circumstances.”
According to what he said next, the federal government is “committed to ensuring that the military commissions process is fair and delivers justice to the victims, survivors, families, and those accused of crimes.” Terrorists from Al Qaeda carried out their attacks with the assistance of four commercial airplanes, two of which they flew into the twin buildings of the World Trade Center in New York City, causing the deaths of more than 3,000 people.
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The Pentagon in Washington, DC, has already been attacked by militants with the downing of three aircraft. The fourth plane went down in the middle of nowhere in Pennsylvania after passengers put up a fight against the hijackers.
