‘It will be a pyrrhic victory’: DOJ fights to get plea deal thrown out for ‘principal architect’ of 9/11 attacks

Left: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan Saturday March 1, 2003 in this photo obtained by the Associated Press (AP Photo). Right: The Twin Towers at The World Trade Center collapse to the ground after hijackers crashed planes into both buildings (AP Photo).

Left: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan Saturday March 1, 2003 in this photo obtained by the Associated Press (AP Photo). Right: The Twin Towers at The World Trade Center collapse to the ground after hijackers crashed planes into both buildings (AP Photo).

The Biden administration is fighting to throw out a plea deal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — alleged to be the “principal architect of the 9/11 attacks” — and two other alleged terrorists that would see them dodge the death penalty, causing “substantial” and “irreparable” harm to the government and the public, the Justice Department says.

“Respondents are charged with perpetrating the most egregious criminal act on American soil in modern history — the 9/11 terrorist attacks,” wrote DOJ prosecutors in an emergency motion Tuesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The motion asked for a stay of a Dec. 30 ruling by a Military Commissions judge that upheld a lower court’s decision to stop Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin from blocking deals for Mohammed and two other accused terrorists, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi, from going through after he tried revoking them last year.

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