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U.S. Navy lawyer to defend
alleged 9/11 mastermind
Jane Sutton
Reuters
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
The self-described mastermind of the September 11 attacks on
New York City and the Pentagon has been assigned a U.S. military
lawyer to defend him in the Guantanamo war court, where he could
face execution if convicted, The Miami Herald reported.
Navy Capt. Prescott Prince was given orders on Tuesday to defend
Pakistani prisoner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the newspaper said
on its Web site.
Military officials at Guantanamo and at the Pentagon could not
immediately confirm the report. However, they previously had said
Prince had joined the team of military lawyers who defend foreign
captives facing war crimes charges in the U.S. military tribunals
at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba.
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Prince, 53, is an attorney and naval reservist from Richmond,
Virginia. He recently served in Iraq, where he was a lawyer in
the unit that oversaw detainee operations.
Mohammed, better known by his initials KSM, has said he planned
every aspect of the September 11 attacks using hijacked airliners
in 2001.
In February, U.S. military prosecutors charged him and five other
Guantanamo captives with counts that include murder, conspiring
with al Qaeda and terrorism. The charges list the names of 2,973
people killed when four hijacked passenger planes slammed into
New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.
Before Mohammed and the others can be tried, the charges and
the potential death penalty still must be approved by a Pentagon
official overseeing the Guantanamo war court, the first U.S. military
tribunals since World War Two.
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