The man accused of masterminding the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks will no longer plead guilty as planned on Jan. 10 after an appeals court agreed to temporarily pause proceedings at the request of the federal government.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was due to deliver his guilty plea before a military commission courtroom at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The guilty plea is part of an agreement reached last year following years of negotiations between the Department of Defense (DOD) and lawyers for Mohammed—who is believed to have masterminded the attacks—as well as two other Sept. 11 defendants: Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin’ Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi….