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Confessed administrator Kahlid Sheikh Mohammed and the four added accused autonomous to appeal neither innocent nor guilty, but rather to adjourn their appeal to a afterwards date.
The appropriate aggressive attorneys answerable Mohammed, 47, and the four others with "conspiracy,
advancing civilians, annihilation and abuse of the law of war, destruction, hijacking, terrorism" for their role in the strikes in which Al-Qaeda militants flew hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon, and a acreage in Pennsylvania.
If begin guilty, the bristles face the afterlife amends for their role in the attacks that dead 2,976 people.
Mohammed was answerable forth with his nephew Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, additionally accepted as Ammar al-Baluchi; Mustapha al-Hawsawi of Saudi Arabia; and Yemenis Ramzi Binalshibh and Walid bin Attash.
After a audition abiding added than nine hours, Mohammed and the co-defendants -- in a much-anticipated aboriginal accessible actualization in three years -- autonomous to adjourn their plea.
"Maybe you're not activity to see us any more," Binalshibh shouted out in a affecting moment at the allegation audition in the US abject in southeastern Cuba, cogent Judge James Pohl, "You are activity to annihilate us."
Dressed in white jumpsuits, with some cutting white turbans, the men mostly watched the affairs in silence, abnegation to appoint with the officials.
Binalshibh disconnected about by aback continuing to pray, and afresh alternately admiration and standing.
He additionally shouted out: "The era of Kadhafi is over but you accept Kadhafi in the affected ... you are activity to annihilate us and say that we are committing suicide."
Only one, bin Attash, was abandoned back the accumulation was brought into court, but Pohl ordered the manacles removed afterwards actuality assured he would "behave appropriately."
The arraignment, one of the aftermost accomplish afore a alleged "trial of the century" takes place, marks the additional time the United States has approved to arraign the 9/11 suspects.
During the procedures the bristles men mostly kept their eyes anchored on the ground. Two of them were account a book which appeared to be the Holy Quran, while they were additionally casual a archetype of The Economist annual amid themselves.
"Accused banned to answer," Pohl afresh over and over again, anniversary time an accused defiantly banned to acknowledge to questions.
Mohammed, dubbed KSM for his initials, remained calm, his long, abounding bristles actualization to accept been absolute with red henna.
Mohammed's advocate David Nevin said his client, who three years ago accepted to the 9/11 attacks "from A to Z," apparently would not allege at the audition because he is "deeply anxious by the candor of the process."
The accused men additionally banned to abrasion headphones to apprehend the accompanying adaptation of the proceedings, which were actuality captivated in English. Their attorneys said it reminded them of their acrid interrogations.
Bin Attash's noncombatant advocate Cheryl Borman, the alone woman on the aegis team, was dressed in atramentous and wore a hijab. "Because of what happened to them ... during the aftermost eight years, these men accept been mistreated," she argued.
The audition comes about one year afterwards President Barack Obama ordered the US Navy SEALs arrest that dead Al-Qaeda arch Osama bin Laden.
The bristles men accept been captivated for years at the US argosy abject in southeastern Cuba while a acknowledged and political action has played out over how and area to arraign them. Debates accept additionally raged over their treatment.
Mohammed was arrested in 2003 and spent three years in abstruse CIA jails area he was subjected to acrid interrogations, including waterboarding, and accepted to a alternation of attacks and plots.
The Pentagon opened four aggressive bases in the United States to acquiesce families of the 9/11 victims to watch the case disentangle on a behemothic screen.
The balloon could still be years away, unless Mohammed pleads accusable to be put to afterlife eventually and become a "martyr" for Al-Qaeda.
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