Sasha Pfeiffer
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Consider This from NPR · 25 years after the 9/11 attacks, where does the trial stand? · 11 Sep 2026
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No, it has not.
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After all this time, that case is still pending.
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Correct.
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All of them are being held in a prison camp within the U.S.
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naval base in Guantanamo.
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And the five include the alleged mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
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They're accused of funding the attacks, training some of the hijackers, helping with travel arrangements and so on.
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That is officially what is happening.
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For years and years and years, teams of lawyers and translators and investigators and many other types of court-related personnel have been going back and forth to Cuba for hearings.
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They fly on charter flights at great taxpayer expense.
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The court record at this point, Scott, is hundreds of thousands of pages long, and numerous judges have come and gone over the years.
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Two main reasons, basically.
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I am going to play you some tape from a lawyer who's done a lot of work for Guantanamo prisoners.
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His name is Michel Paradis, and he explains the lengthy delay this way.
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The military commissions he refers to, the military court, was basically invented from scratch after the 9-11 attacks.
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This case could have been tried in U.S.
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federal court, and many people think if it had, it would be long over by now.
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Our federal courts have successfully prosecuted countless terrorism suspects who are now in U.S.
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prisons, but our government put the military court in Cuba because they said they wanted it to be beyond the reach of U.S.
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law.
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