(AFP) The new military judge presiding over the September 11 attacks trial in Guantanamo Bay said Wednesday he would not force it toward an end — but that he wanted to see “action” after nine years of hearings.
Air Force Colonel Matthew McCall told the military commissions court at the US navy base in Cuba that he would not stop lawyers defending 9/11 “architect” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others from making their case that the men were denied due process because they were tortured by the CIA.
Speaking just three days before the 20th anniversary of the Al-Qaeda attacks, he said he wanted to move through the long-running pretrial phase of a death penalty case that has already gone through seven judges.
