The man accused of masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and two of his accomplices, held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have agreed to plead guilty, the Pentagon said on Wednesday (July 31).
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00:00The accused mastermind of the September 11th attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and two of
00:06his accomplices, all held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, have agreed to plead
00:11guilty.
00:12The Pentagon announced the development on Wednesday without elaborating on the plea
00:16deals.
00:17However, a U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity said the deals almost certainly
00:22involved guilty pleas in exchange for taking the death penalty off the table.
00:26Mohammed is accused of masterminding the plot to fly hijacked commercial passenger
00:31aircraft into the World Trade Center in New York City and into the Pentagon on September
00:3611, 2001.
00:38The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people and plunged the United States into what would
00:42become a two-decade-long war in Afghanistan.
00:45Mohammed is the most well-known inmate at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay in
00:49Cuba.
00:50The prison was set up in 2002 by then-U.S. President George W. Bush to house foreign
00:55militant suspects following the September 11 attacks.
00:59Its population grew to a peak of about 800 inmates before it started to shrink.
01:04Only 30 inmates remain today.
01:06Mohammed's interrogations have long been the subject of scrutiny.
01:10A 2014 Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA's use of waterboarding and other
01:15quote, enhanced interrogation techniques said that Mohammed had been waterboarded at
01:20least 183 times.