00:00The accused mastermind of the September 11th attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and two of
00:06his accomplices, all held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, have agreed to plead
00:11guilty.
00:12The Pentagon announced the development on Wednesday without elaborating on the plea
00:16deals.
00:17However, a U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity said the deals almost certainly
00:22involved guilty pleas in exchange for taking the death penalty off the table.
00:26Mohammed is accused of masterminding the plot to fly hijacked commercial passenger
00:31aircraft into the World Trade Center in New York City and into the Pentagon on September
00:3611, 2001.
00:38The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people and plunged the United States into what would
00:42become a two-decade-long war in Afghanistan.
00:45Mohammed is the most well-known inmate at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay in
00:49Cuba.
00:50The prison was set up in 2002 by then-U.S. President George W. Bush to house foreign
00:55militant suspects following the September 11 attacks.
00:59Its population grew to a peak of about 800 inmates before it started to shrink.
01:04Only 30 inmates remain today.
01:06Mohammed's interrogations have long been the subject of scrutiny.
01:10A 2014 Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA's use of waterboarding and other
01:15quote, enhanced interrogation techniques said that Mohammed had been waterboarded at
01:20least 183 times.
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