The five accused of the attacks of September 11 will be judged only in 2021

The trial of the five men accused of planning the Sept. 11 attacks, including the self-proclaimed brain of Khaled Sheikh Mohammed's attack, is scheduled for January 2021 on the US military base at Guantanamo.

The judge in charge of the case, Colonel Shane Cohen, established January 11, 2021 as the start date for the selection of the military jury to judge the five men facing the death penalty.

The five men, who were detained for about 15 years at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay, in the far southeast of Cuba, they were charged ten years agobut the process was blocked by the complexity of the case.

One of the difficulties is that the prisoners went through the secret CIA prisons, where some people were subjected to "Extensive interrogation procedures" – a euphemism for torture – Used to build loads.

This is the case of Khaled Sheikh Mohammed (called KSM, by his initials), arrested in Pakistan in 2003, who was subjected to many drowning sessions ("waterboarding") before being transferred to Guantanamo in 2006.

According to the Pentagon, the 54-year-old said that he was the main brain the September 11, 2001 attack, which killed nearly 3,000 people after the death of diversion of four planes. Two of them caused the collapse of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one hit a wing of the Pentagon in Washington and the last was crushed in a field in Pennsylvania.

Yemenis are among the other defendants. Ramzi ben al-Chaibahwho, according to the prosecution, was involved in the operation without obtaining a visa for the United States, and Walid Ben Attach, suspected of having operated before the attacks.

Saudi Moustapha al-Houssaoui is accused of funding the attacks, and the nephew of KSM, Ammar al-Baluchi – also known as Ali Abdul Aziz-Ali-, of Pakistani origin, is accused of having participated in the logistics of the attack with his uncle.