Military prosecutors are willing to go without a key confession by the self-described mastermind of the 9/11 attacks — in order to avoid further delaying the long-awaited trial now set for summer 2028. The US government decided not to appeal the recent bombshell ruling by a military judge that barred Khalid Shaikh Mohammed’s 2007 statements to the FBI from being used at trial. “An appeal could jeopardize the hard-earned June 5, 2028, trial date,” the feds wrote to victims’ families in a letter Friday — exactly a week before the 25th anniversary of the world-altering attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, sources familiar with the matter told The Post.
Appeals of similar rulings have taken years to work their way through various courts, part of the series of delays that have left relatives of victims dismayed as year after year goes by without a conviction. The cases of Mohammed and alleged partners-in-crime Walid bin Attash, Mustafa al-Hawsawi and Ammar al-Baluchi have notoriously dragged on for decades amid a series of legal squabbles, including over whether confessions obtained via torture are admissible in court.
