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Death Penalty for 911 Attackers!!

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Kyonne Gibson

At Guantanamo Bay, the Pentagon has charged six detainees with murder and war crimes in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks. Officials said Monday they'll seek the death penalty. This would be the first capital trials under the terrorism-era military tribunal system. "These charges allege a long term, highly sophisticated, organized plan by al-Qaida to attack the United States of America," Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Hartmann, the legal adviser to the tribunal system, told reporters. He said a total of 169 charges were sworn against suspects "alleged to be responsible for the planning and execution of the attacks" in 2001 that killed nearly 3,000 people. Hartmann said the six include Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the attacks in which hijackers flew planes into buildings in New York and Washington. Another hijacked plane crashed in the fields of western Pennsylvania.

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