For more than twenty years, the families of nearly 3,000 people killed on September 11, 2001 have waited for a reckoning that justice systems are designed to deliver but rarely do swiftly. Now, with a trial date finally set for June 2028, military prosecutors have accepted a significant legal wound — the suppression of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's 2007 confession — rather than risk losing the date itself to years of appellate delay. It is a choice that reveals something enduring about the tension between the pursuit of perfect justice and the human need for closure, and how, after long enough, the
Prosecutors abandon appeal to preserve 2028 trial date for 9/11 mastermind
Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the September 11 attacks; victims' families have waited decades for trial proceedings against the alleged mastermind.