Anonymous ID: abdffd Aug. 16, 2023, 6:42 p.m. No.19372704   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2716 >>2812

Plea negotiations could mean no 9/11 defendants face the death penalty, the US tells families

 

https://www.wral.com/story/plea-negotiations-could-mean-no-9-11-defendants-face-the-death-penalty-the-us-tells-families/21003167

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The suspected architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and his fellow defendants may never face the death penalty under plea agreements now under consideration to bring an end to their more than decadelong prosecution, the Pentagon and FBI have advised families of some of the thousands killed.

The notice, made in a letter that was sent to several of the families and obtained by The Associated Press, comes 1 1/2 years after military prosecutors and defense lawyers began exploring a negotiated resolution to the case.

 

The prosecution of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others held at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has been troubled by repeated delays and legal disputes, especially over the legal ramifications of the interrogation under torture that the men initially underwent while in CIA custody. No trial date has been set.

“The Office of the Chief Prosecutor has been negotiating and is considering entering into pre-trial agreements,” or PTAs, the letter said. It told the families that while no plea agreement “has been finalized, and may never be finalized, it is possible that a PTA in this case would remove the possibility of the death penalty."

Some relatives of the nearly 3,000 people killed outright in the terror attacks expressed outrage over the prospect of ending the case short of a verdict. The military prosecutors pledged to take their views into consideration and present them to the military authorities who would make the final decision on accepting any plea agreement.

The letter, dated Aug. 1, was received by at least some of the family members only this week. It asks them to respond by Monday to the FBI's victim services division with any comments or questions about the possibility of such a plea agreement. The FBI had no comment Wednesday on the letter.

On Sept. 11, 2001, conspirators from the al-Qaida militant group seized control of jets to use them as passenger-filled missiles, hitting New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon near Washington. A fourth plane was headed for Washington but crashed in Pennsylvania after crew members and passengers tried to storm the cockpit.

 

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Anonymous ID: abdffd Aug. 16, 2023, 6:49 p.m. No.19372725   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2896 >>2946 >>3169 >>3340 >>3371

Tinker Air Force Base deaths: 17 people dead in 2023, military refuses to reveal causes

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12415005/Tinker-Air-Force-Base-deaths-causes.html

 

▶️ An Air Force base in Oklahoma is tight-lipped after 17 people have died on the base since the beginning of 2023

▶️ Officials for the Air Force and the base have refused to reveal the nature of the deaths, saying only that there were 'various causes'

▶️ An investigation suggested 'deaths connected to base this year including potential suicides.'

 

An Air Force base in Oklahoma is tight-lipped after 17 people have died since the beginning of 2023, with an advocate for military families saying she'd made inquiries about a possible rash of suicides.

 

Officials for the Air Force and the base have refused to reveal the nature of the deaths, saying only that there were 'various causes.'

 

DailyMail.com has reached out to the base for an explanation or names of the personnel who have died - but officials did not respond in time for this report.

 

A number of the deaths are also still 'under investigation,' a spokesperson for the base said. A Military.com investigation suggested that 'they had been informed of deaths connected to base this year including potential suicides.'

 

It's not clear how many of the deaths were service members or did any particular job at the base, which has over 30,000 personnel on site.

 

In our own search, we could only find Senior Airperson Tyler Jo Law, who died on the base May 28, according to an obituary.

 

The obituary did not name a cause of death.

 

Government employees, contractors and civilian all make up the Oklahoma base's workforce.

 

A source told Military.com that there were potential COVID-19 deaths in addition to suicides.

 

'We are deeply saddened by the losses we have experienced at Tinker Air Force Base,' Col. Abby Ruscetta, the Tinker installation commander, said in a statement.

 

'Our focus moving forward is to let everyone know we value them, and we stand together as a team.'

 

Ann Stefanek, a spokesperson for the Air Force, said that the Department of Defense is responsible for any statistics highlighting suicides on bases but they are never released with specific numbers pertaining to each military branch.

 

There is also no law preventing an individual base releasing numbers of deaths.

 

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