9 11 attacks who is responsible

The United States "organised and implemented a clearly defined programme to torture these men," says Nevin. Those methods provide plenty of scope for potential appeals against any convictions dragging on for years.

Nevin won't disclose details of what it's like to represent one of the world's most notorious defendants. He says initially his client was "deeply sceptical" of being represented by an American lawyer so there was a long process of getting to know each other. When Mohammed was held in a top-secret part of the naval base the lawyers were put in a van with the windows blacked out and driven around for 45 minutes to disorient them, he says.

But now his client is held in the less secret Camp 5. At meetings some family members will challenge lawyers like Nevin about representing defendants, but others will ask questions about how the process works. Another reason he believes the tribunal has dragged on is because it's a death penalty case and that raises the stakes. Pellegrino delayed his retirement from the FBI by three years in the hope that Mohammed's military tribunal at Guantanamo, which he expects to testify at, would be completed.

But the veteran special agent hit retirement age and has just left the bureau. But it is what it is. Image source, Reuters. Image source, Getty Images. President Bush joins firefighters clearing rubble days after the attack. Who was Osama Bin Laden? Image source, Frank Pellegrino. The World Trade Center bombing killed six and wounded over 1, Information from Mohammed led to an intensified search for Bin Laden on the Pakistani border.

The men sat across the table from each other. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A wanted poster released by President Bush in And it is the most controversial.

Camp Justice in Guantanamo where some early hearings took place. Image source, Pool. At a. Only six people in the World Trade Center towers at the time of their collapse survived. Almost 10, others were treated for injuries, many severe. Because the plane had been delayed in taking off, passengers on board learned of events in New York and Washington via cell phone and Airfone calls to the ground.

Knowing that the aircraft was not returning to an airport as the hijackers claimed, a group of passengers and flight attendants planned an insurrection. One of the passengers, Thomas Burnett, Jr. I love you, honey. Sandy Bradshaw, a flight attendant, called her husband and explained that she had slipped into a galley and was filling pitchers with boiling water.

The passengers fought the four hijackers and are suspected to have attacked the cockpit with a fire extinguisher. The plane then flipped over and sped toward the ground at upwards of miles per hour, crashing in a rural field near Shanksville in western Pennsylvania at a.

All 44 people aboard were killed. Its intended target is not known, but theories include the White House , the U. Capitol, the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland or one of several nuclear power plants along the eastern seaboard.

Citizens of 78 countries died in New York, Washington, D. At the World Trade Center, 2, died after the two planes slammed into the twin towers. That figure includes firefighters and paramedics, 23 New York City police officers and 37 Port Authority police officers who were struggling to complete an evacuation of the buildings and save the office workers trapped on higher floors. At the Pentagon, people were killed, including 64 on American Airlines Flight 77, the airliner that struck the building.

On Flight 93 , 44 people died when the plane crash-landed in Pennsylvania. Bush , who was in Florida at the time of the attacks and had spent the day being shuttled around the country because of security concerns, returned to the White House.

These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. In a reference to the eventual U. Within two months, U.

Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11th attacks, remained at large until May 2, , when he was finally tracked down and killed by U. In June , then-President Barack Obama announced the beginning of large-scale troop withdrawals from Afghanistan; it took until August for all U. It was signed into law by President George W. Bush on November 25, Today, the Department of Homeland Security is a cabinet responsible for preventing terror attacks, border security, immigrations and customs and disaster relief and prevention.

Mohammed led propaganda operations for al Qaeda from Procedural battles over complex and arcane points of law are seemingly not the stuff of headline news.

But as a scholar of law and torture , they are fascinating to me. They insist it is necessary to provide effective legal counsel. Instead of original CIA materials, prosecutors have provided about 21, pages of summaries and substitutions that obscure specific dates and locations and mask the identities of agents and contractors. The CIA, which controls information about its operations and dictates what prosecutors can provide to the defense in discovery, has no institutional interest in due process or fair trials , only in maintaining its secrets.

Since September , many of the hearings have been devoted to defense efforts to persuade the judge to exclude evidence the government wants to use at trial, namely statements the defendants gave to FBI agents who interrogated them in , five months after they were transferred from the black sites. The prosecution maintains that because the FBI interrogators used lawful methods rather than coercion when questioning the defendants, these statements should be admissible in court.

The defense has called witnesses, including the two architects of the CIA torture program, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen , who testified in January Although this case garners sporadic media attention, it deserves greater public interest because the stakes are so high.