By Carol Rosenberg
Prosecutors portrayed the prisoners as unrepentant jihadists who bragged about their roles in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to federal agents during their first months in military detention at Guantánamo Bay.
Defense
lawyers cast the men as so broken by violence and solitary confinement in their
years in C.I.A. prisons overseas that they were groomed to involuntarily
confess to U.S. agents.
Over
eight days this month, the two sides offered these stark, clashing views to a
military judge who is now confronted with the overarching question in the long-running
capital case: Did Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who is accused of hatching
and organizing the Sept. 11 attacks, and two co-defendants voluntarily
incriminate themselves to F.B.I. agents years ago, and can their statements be
used against them?
The
case is in its 15th year of these pretrial proceedings, and no date has been
set for the trial to begin. But the judge’s decision could be a turning point
almost 25 years after the attacks killed nearly 3,000 people in New York,
Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon.
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