Military trial date set for alleged mastermind of Sept. 11 attacks - NBC News

A military judge, Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Schrama, ruled on Wednesday that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused of masterminding the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, will stand trial beginning in June 2028.
Schrama rejected prosecutors' proposed January 2027 start date, pushing the trial back roughly 18 months.
Mohammed will be prosecuted alongside three alleged co-conspirators: Walid bin Attash, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, in connection with the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and in a Pennsylvania field.
The trial date follows a split federal appeals court decision last summer that threw out a potential plea agreement, which would have allowed Mohammed to plead guilty in exchange for avoiding the death penalty.
Captured in Pakistan in 2003 and held at Guantánamo Bay since 2006, Mohammed was charged and arraigned in 2008 with war crimes and murder, but proceedings have stretched on for years as the Obama-era military commissions system faced repeated challenges to its rules.
Defense lawyers have attributed delays to government efforts to conceal torture used against detainees at secret CIA prisons; a 2014 Senate report found the CIA waterboarded Mohammed 183 times in what it described as a series of near-drownings.