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...news broke at 6 a.m. in New York, just as President Barack Obama was preparing for an evening press conference in Japan. In an age when electrons travel the world in an instant, it took no time at all before everyone knew: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks who was subjected to waterboarding 183 times, will face trial in a New York City federal court with four other Guantánamo Bay detainees. (See pictures of Gitmo detainees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 9/11 Trial Another Distraction for Traveling Obama | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...explaining the decision. "I don't want to preempt his news conference," the President said. But he realized he had to say more. "This is a prosecutorial decision, as well as a national-security decision," Obama continued, again distancing himself from the plan. "I am absolutely convinced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be subject to the most exacting demands of justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 9/11 Trial Another Distraction for Traveling Obama | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

There are hard legal cases, and there are high-profile legal cases, but the prosecution of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed may turn out to be one of the hardest high-profile cases ever. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Friday that Mohammed, the confessed architect of the Sept. 11 attacks who was waterboarded 183 times in U.S. custody in March 2003, will be put on trial in the Southern District of New York along with four other Sept. 11 plotters. Between the imperative of bringing an alleged mass murderer to justice and the challenge of overcoming evidence tainted by torture, the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prosecuting KSM: Harder Than You Think | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...have [gotten] our revenge for our brother Nabhan," Shabab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage said afterward, according to Reuters. "We knew the infidel government and A.U. troops planned to attack us after the holy month. This is a message to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After a U.S. Air Strike, Somali Peacekeepers Pay | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...program's defenders, led by former Vice President Dick Cheney, claim that so-called high-value detainees like 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed were initially resistant to interrogation but broke down under more coercive techniques--providing information that helped foil imminent terrorist plots and save thousands of lives. The proof, Cheney claimed, lay in two classified CIA memos that showed "the success of the effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

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