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New charges against the perpetrators of the terrorist attacks of September 11

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American military justice exception would ask Tuesday that eight joint counts to be made against the five defendants in the case of the September 11 attacks, opening the way for resuming the process at Guantanamo, informs an official letter.

This letter, dated Monday and obtained from the prosecutor office attached to the exceptional military tribunals at Guantanamo, was broadcast Tuesday on its website the association of victims' families on 11 September for a strong America and Security " .

Asked by AFP to comment on this information, the Pentagon said.

The five men have been sent before a military tribunal of exception in 2008, before their case is transferred to a federal court in New York, at the request of Barack Obama administration. But they were never officially brought to court, because Congress has prohibited their arrival on American soil.

In early April, the administration abandoned a poces ordinary track and sent him back on the five defendants in military courts of exception, very controversial, although they were reformed in the autumn of 2009 the Democratic administration.

"The announcement of these new charges is a step down the wrong path in addition to regulation of the most important process in our age," said a press organization in defense of American civil liberties the ACLU, adding that the military court verdict will not be "considered credible .

Human Rights First has also expressed "regret" in a statement that the process will not take place before the courts of common law.

"We want to inform you that more charges will be presented (Tuesday) against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi bin al-Shaiba, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali and Mustapha Attach Wallid bin al-Hussawi, for their involvement in September 11 attacks, "wrote prosecutor office attached to the courts of exception, in his letter.

"The eight common charges are: conspiracy, murder in violation of law on war, attack on civilians, attacks against civilian, voluntary serious injury, destruction of property in violation of law on war, terrorism and diversion of flights," says Office of the Prosecutor .

The letter then lists each of the facts alleged. In the foreground, Khaled Sheikh Mohammed is accused of being "the organizer of the attacks, Osama bin Laden's idea proposed in 1996, obtaining approval and funding from al-Qaida leader and supervising all operations," according to the letter.

The other four are accused of preparing attacks helped in varying degrees.

The Prosecutor's Office, these charges will be subject to military tribunals except the president, who will decide to send the Courts. He will also decide whether the five Babati may be punishable by death.

If they are sent before a military tribunal, "a military judge will be appointed and a jury of military officers," said the source cited.

"The defendants will be questioned as to whether guilty or pleads guilty, at a hearing at Guantanamo, held within 30 days from the date it is officially prosecuted, the prosecutor's office said in the letter to victims' families.

In the course of their preliminary hearings in 2008, the defendants said they would plead guilty to all counts. Military court rules provide that a defendant who pleads guilty may be sentenced to death. The reform of 2009 did not alter this rule.

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