Hearing for alleged 9/11 mastermind resumes after 18-month delay

Pre-trial process for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others defendants is in its ninth year with no clear end in sight

Nearly 20 years after the 9/11 attacks, the man accused of orchestrating the plot, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has appeared along four other defendants, for the first hearing in over 18 months at a Guantanamo Bay military tribunal.

The trial of the five accused for their role in the attacks has yet to begin. The session which began on Tuesday was the resumption of pre-trial hearings, now in their ninth year and with no clear end in sight. They have been bogged down in procedural problems and the central issue haunting the entire process, the admissibility of evidence obtained by the CIA under torture.