The Dichotomy of Torture and Investigation
Five men accused of planning and executing the September 11 attacks are still awaiting trial 23 years later.
The investigations, interrogations, and conspiracies were spiraling out of the news in the aftermath of September 11 attacks. It’s shocking to realize that some of those accused of crimes related to the attacks are still being held in Guantanamo Bay. Among them are five men (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, nicknamed KSM by the FBI, Ramzi Binalshibh, Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, Walid bin Attash, and Ammar al-Baluchi) charged with helping the hijackers responsible for crashing the planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
KSM is known as the great planner and mastermind behind this case, urging Osama Bin Laden about this attack since 1996. All five men who are accused have supposedly had conspiratorial records from different countries, transferring money and strategizing their own movements.
It is not to misunderstand that the trials have not happened at all. There have been two trials, one in 2007 and one in 2012, in the George W. Bush and the Obama administration respectively. However, the obstacle barring the trial from coming to a definitive legal conclusion is the torture conducted by CIA officials to extract information from the…
