2026年8月27日 / 美国东部时间上午8:55 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
美国一名军事法官于周三确定，哈立德·谢赫·穆罕默德及另外三名被控策划2001年9月11日恐怖袭击的嫌疑人将于2028年夏季受审。
庭审定于2028年6月5日开始，比检方要求的2027年1月开庭时间晚了18个月。空军中校迈克尔·A·施拉马在裁决书中写道，需要额外的时间来解决审前争议，包括关于哪些证据可以在庭审中出示的分歧。
二十多年来，美国军方和多届政府一直在努力将这名被控策划美国史上最致命袭击之一的男子绳之以法。
2028年的庭审能否如期进行取决于本案能否按期完成各阶段工作和达到关键节点，该案仍有可能再次推迟。该案曾于2021年安排过庭审，但后来取消了。
穆罕默德被控策划并指挥了将被劫持客机撞向世贸中心和五角大楼的袭击计划，另有一架被劫持客机在宾夕法尼亚州一处田野坠毁。他将与另外三名同案被告一同受审：瓦利德·本·阿塔什、阿里·阿卜杜勒·阿齐兹·阿里和穆斯塔法·哈萨维。
他们是目前仍被关押在古巴关塔那摩湾美军基地的最后一批在押人员之一。庭审之路漫长且充满争议与波折。观察人士此前曾称穆罕默德是一个渴望获得关注的人。过去，他曾要求在法庭上身着军装，批评法庭绘制的自己的肖像，并成功向美国前总统巴拉克·奥巴马寄出了一封信。
美国联邦上诉法院去年废除了一项认罪协议，该协议本可让穆罕默德通过认罪协议免于因2001年基地组织袭击案被判处死刑。
根据该协议，穆罕默德和另外两名同案被告将被判处终身监禁且不得假释，他们还需回答受害者家属有关此次袭击的所有遗留问题。但该协议的公布随即引发了政治反弹。经过两年谈判，美国前总统乔·拜登政府在舆论反弹中迅速否决了这项协议。
Trial date set for alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
August 27, 2026 / 8:55 AM EDT / CBS/AP
A U.S. military judge on Wednesday set a summer 2028 trial date for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three others accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The trial is scheduled to begin June 5, 2028, 18 months later than the January 2027 start that prosecutors had requested. The additional time is needed to resolve pretrial disputes, including disagreements about what evidence can be presented at trial, Air Force Lt. Col. Michael A. Schrama wrote in his ruling.
The U.S. military and successive administrations have struggled for more than two decades to bring to justice the man charged with planning one of the deadliest attacks ever on the United States.
The 2028 trial depends on the case meeting deadlines and milestones along the way, and it could again be delayed. A trial was previously scheduled in 2021 but later canceled.
Mohammed is accused of developing and directing the plot to crash hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Another of the hijacked planes flew into a field in Pennsylvania. He faces trial alongside three alleged accomplices: Walid bin Attash, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Mustafa al-Hawsawi.
They are among the last of the detainees held at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The road to trial has been long, marked by demands and drama. Mohammed has been described previously by observers as a man obsessed with attention. In the past, he has asked to wear military gear in court, criticized a courtroom drawing of himself, and successfully fought to send a letter to former President Barack Obama.
A federal appeals court last year threw out an agreement that would have allowed Mohammed to plead guilty in a deal sparing him the risk of execution for al-Qaida’s 2001 attacks.
That deal stipulated life sentences without parole for Mohammed and two of his co-defendants. It also would have obligated the men to answer any lingering questions that families of the victims have about the attacks. But the announcement of the deal led to immediate political blowback. After negotiating the deal for two years, former President Joe Biden’s administration quickly repudiated it amid the backlash.
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