Two decades after the 9/11 attacks and nine years after war crimes charges were filed, accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed still awaits trial.
, joining hundreds of other prisoners already held in this U.S. enclave. The reasons the wheels of justice are moving so slowly are many. It's a logistical nightmare to travel here. The military commissions system set up for this trial was created from scratch in the Obama administration, so every rule can be a point of contention — and hours of litigation. There has been frequent turnover of judges and lawyers.
"Covering up torture is the reason that these men were brought to Guantanamo and the continuing cover-up of torture is the reason that indefinite detention at Guantanamo still exists," said James Connell, a lawyer for Ammar al Baluchi, who, his lawyers say, was a model for the detainee who was tortured in one of the opening scenes of the film "Zero Dark Thirty."
"The goal of the United States has been to afford fairness in reaching just outcomes to these cases," the statement said. "Beyond that, the Department of Defense cannot speculate on matters related to the Commissions' timeline." "What we've been doing is to have, in essence, no trial at all…it's not necessarily a foregone conclusion that there will be a trial."to operate the detention facility here, on a rocky coastline in a part of Cuba that the U.S. has occupied since the end of the Spanish-American war.And while the Biden administration has said it wants to close the facility, a $15 million expansion is underway, officials here said, including the construction of a new courtroom and workspaces.
President Bush opened the detention center in 2002 as he launched what he called a War on Terror, with the idea of keeping so-called "enemy combatants" there indefinitely. He filled it up, mixing low-level foot soldiers with terrorist masterminds, all held without charge. Charges against many of the remaining inmates may not be possible, experts say, either because the evidence is too sensitive or the torture they experienced has tainted the case beyond repair.
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