Accused Mastermind Behind 9/11 To Plead Guilty

Defense lawyers have requested the men receive life sentences in exchange for the guilty pleas.

A man accused as the mastermind of al-Qaida’s 9/11 attack on the United States has agreed to plead guilty.

Khalid Mohammed and two accomplices are expected to enter the pleas at the Military Commission in Cuba as soon as next week.

Defense lawyers have requested the men receive life sentences in exchange for the guilty pleas.

The U.S. agreement with the men comes over 16-years after their prosecution began. It also comes over 20 years after militants took over four commercial airplanes to use as fuel-filled missiles. Three of them were crashed into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon.

Al-Qaida’s attack killed nearly 3,000 people in 2001.