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Articles by Ellen Knickmeyer

Legal

Newly unsealed documents reveal more details of prosecutors’ evidence in 9/11 attacks

February 6, 2025 Ellen Knickmeyer  

(AP) Newly unsealed documents give one of the most detailed views yet of the evidence gathered on the accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, including how prosecutors allege he and others interacted with the hijackers who carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, […]

Government & Politics

Guantanamo’s prisoners have reached a pivotal moment. So has the 9/11 case. Here’s what to know

January 8, 2025 Ellen Knickmeyer  

(AP) After 23 years, the fate of the last remaining Guantanamo detainees swept up worldwide after al-Qaida’s shattering Sept. 11, 2001, attacks is reaching a pivotal moment this month. Court battles and dealmaking are deciding the future of many of those last […]

Government & Politics

Biden administration asks court to block plea deal for alleged mastermind of 9/11 attacks

January 7, 2025 Eric Tucker and Ellen Knickmeyer  

(AP) The Biden administration asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to block a plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that would spare him the risk of the death penalty in one of the deadliest attacks ever on the […]

Government & Politics

Judge sets date for 9/11 defendants to enter pleas, deepening battle over court’s independence

November 13, 2024 Ellen Knickmeyer  

(AP) A U.S. military judge at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has scheduled hearings in early January for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co-defendants to enter guilty pleas in exchange for life sentences despite Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s effort to scuttle […]

Government & Politics

Defense secretary overrides plea agreement for accused 9/11 mastermind and two other defendants

August 2, 2024 Ellen Knickmeyer  

(AP) Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday overrode a plea agreement reached earlier this week for the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two other defendants, reinstating them as death-penalty cases. The move comes two days after the military […]

Health & Medicine

A panel finds torture made a 9/11 defendant psychotic. A judge will rule whether he can stand trial

September 20, 2023 Ellen Knickmeyer  

(AP) A military medical panel has concluded that one of the five 9/11 defendants held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base has been rendered delusional and psychotic by the torture he underwent years ago while in CIA custody. The findings heighten uncertainty […]

Legal

Plea negotiations could mean no 9/11 defendants face the death penalty, the US tells families

August 16, 2023 Ellen Knickmeyer and Jennifer Peltz  

(AP) The suspected architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and his fellow defendants may never face the death penalty under plea agreements now under consideration to bring an end to their more than decadelong prosecution, the Pentagon and FBI have advised […]

Immigration

Most people in US favor Afghan ally refugees: AP-NORC poll

October 4, 2021 Ellen Knickmeyer, Hannah Fingerhut and Nathan Ellgren  

(AP) Most people in the U.S. want to see Afghans who worked with Americans offered resettlement in the United States, a new poll shows, confirming support across political divides for former military translators and others struggling to escape Taliban rule. The survey […]

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