There was an uproar that echoed across the length and breadth of the land one year ago, in August.
Out of the blue, the Biden administration shocked the country by announcing they had reached a plea deal with Khalid Sheik Mohammed, one of the infamous 9/11 plotters who has been locked safely away in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, awaiting trial for what seems like forever.
The US has reached a plea deal with alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants accused of plotting the 2001 terror attacks, according to the Defense Department.
The pretrial agreement – reached after 27 months of negotiations – takes the death penalty off the table for Mohammed, Walid Bin ‘Attash, and Mustafa al Hawsawi, prosecutors said in a letter, obtained by CNN, sent to the families of 9/11 victims and survivors shortly before the Department of Defense announced the news in a press release Wednesday evening.
After beginning negotiations in March 2022, the three men agreed to plead guilty to all charges, including the murder of the 2,976 people listed in the charging sheet, the families were told.
Mohammed and his co-defendants will enter guilty pleas at a plea hearing that could come as early as next week, according to the letter.
“We recognize that the status of the case in general, and this news in particular, will understandably and appropriately elicit intense emotion, and we also realize that the decision to enter into a pre-trial agreement will be met with mixed reactions amongst the thousands of family members who lost loved ones,” prosecutors wrote in the letter. “The decision to enter into a pre-trial agreement after 12 years of pre-trial litigation was not reached lightly; however, it is our collective, reasoned, and good-faith judgment that this resolution is the best path to finality and justice in this case.”
Americans exploded in rage at the very temerity of the feckless, weak, and mewling Biden for once again caving to the worst of mankind. The worst of the worst, who had successfully plotted to brutally slaughter thousands of Americans on our own home soil, was never going to have to pay the ultimate price for his part in the unspeakable savagery of those attacks that day. Would never pay the price for the carnage, the heartbreak, the ruined lives, and lost futures.
Terrorists ‘writing a letter’ might suffice as a sufficiently contrite apology for mass murder in progressive fever dreams…
…As part of the agreement, the defendants agreed to answer written questions from the surviving victims and victims’ families about their roles and reasons for conducting the attacks.
…but not in a country forever scarred by the images of that day and the living memories of the horror.
Oh, no, America roared.
THIS ABOMINATION WILL NOT STAND
‘Oops,’ the Biden cabal said, the very next day.
BREAKING: @Secdef Lloyd Austin yanks plea deals for 9/11 terror attack mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, 2 others
@DeptofDefense memo released tonight also relieves the official in charge of the military commissions of her oversight in the case pic.twitter.com/bMVvCDn37I
— Jeff Seldin (@jseldin) August 3, 2024
It took almost a year to confirm it, but this past July, Mohammed is back where he belongs – with the death penalty on the table.
Remember when the Biden admin struck a plea deal with the 9/11 masterminds so they can avoid the death penalty?
Well an appeals court just TOSSED that deal, putting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his two co-conspirators BACK on track for the DEATH PENALTY. pic.twitter.com/yueYxIIV9M
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 11, 2025
I believe it will always be so with our collective fury against those who would harm us here. Biting flies like Omar and Tlaib were immediately drowned out by the American voices raised as one against a common enemy.
We know the evil when we see it.
Sadly, for the country that birthed us, they no longer have that collective survival instinct – that feeling of oneness that springs unbidden from the deepest part of one’s national soul when a national threat surfaces.
Britain has had their share of attacks by the Islamic terrorists who meant to kill as many of the people who had welcomed and nurtured them as possible.
The event known as 7/7 is one that is spoken of reverently. Sorrowfully. The carnage memorialized.
On 7 July 2005, Great Britain suffered its worst ever terror attack as four Muslim suicide bombers struck the London transport system, killing 52 and injuring hundreds of commuters.
‘Oooh, they are just local boys gone bad,’ was the initial assessment.
…The terrorists who carried out the July 7, 2005 London bombings were initially depicted as “ordinary” British Muslims who had been “brainwashed” by extremist Islamist preachers and radicalized by the war in Iraq 1. Since then, it has become clear that the 7/7 bombers, and particularly their leader Mohammed Siddique Khan, had been involved in jihadist movements prior to 9/11 and that he and the other bombers had deliberately cultivated relationships with a wide range of pro-jihadist groups and individuals in the United Kingdom and abroad.
Rooting through their connections developed an extraordinary, long-established, terrifying worldwide web of Al Qaeda affiliations.
One of the co-conspirators who was captured and later confessed to taking part in the planning for the bombings was Haroon Aswat. He was arrested in Zambia, brought to the United States for trial, and pleaded guilty in New York federal court in addition to being sentenced to life in prison for a Yemeni hostage taking.
…In late 1999, ASWAT, along with co-defendants Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, a/k/a “Abu Hamza” (“Abu Hamza”), Ouassama Kassir, and Earnest James Ujaama, attempted to create a terrorist training camp in the United States to support al Qaeda, which has been designated by the United States Secretary of State as a foreign terrorist organization. ASWAT conspired with Abu Hamza, Kassir, and Ujaama to establish the terrorist training camp on a rural parcel of property located in Bly, Oregon. The purpose of the Bly, Oregon camp was for Muslims to receive various types of training – including military-style jihad training – in preparation to fight jihad in Afghanistan. As used by the conspirators in this case, the term “jihad” meant defending Islam against purported enemies through violence and armed aggression, including, if necessary, by using murder to rid Muslim holy lands of non-believers in Islam.
…A ledger recovered in September 2002 from an al Qaeda safe house in Karachi, Pakistan, listed a number of individuals associated with al Qaeda, including ASWAT. The al Qaeda safe house was used by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, al Qaeda’s chief operational planner and the alleged planner of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
ASWAT pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization (al Qaeda), and one count of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization (al Qaeda), each of which carries a maximum term of 10 years in prison. The maximum potential sentences are prescribed by Congress and are provided here for informational purposes only, as any sentencing of the defendant will be determined by the judge.
…On May 19, 2014, after a four-week jury trial in the Southern District of New York, Abu Hamza was found guilty of charges relating to his role in the conspiracy to establish the terrorist training camp in Bly, as well as his role in a hostage-taking in Yemen in 1998 that resulted in four deaths, and his support of violent jihad in Afghanistan in 2000 and 2001. On January 9, 2015, U.S. District Judge Katherine B. Forrest sentenced Abu Hamza to life in prison.
In 2022, Aswat was returned to the United Kingdom.
ICE agents returned a British-born member of al-Qaida, who pleaded guilty in 2015 to trying to start a terrorist training camp in Oregon, to England.
Haroon Rashid Aswat, 48, of Batley in West Yorkshire, England, had been at a federal prison medical facility in Devens before being transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody Wednesday to be removed to the United Kingdom. His extradition was handled by a Boston-based ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations team the same day.
“Mr. Aswat, who sought to train future al-Qaeda members and provided material support to terrorist organizations around the globe, has been successfully turned over to authorities in the UK,” said Todd M. Lyons, field director for ERO’s Boston office. “This operation reminds us all of the critical contributions to public safety that our dedicated and tireless team of professionals make on a daily basis.”
He is set to soon be released without any monitoring. He’s done. Free.
…He has served all his jail time and is due to be released to his family in Batley, West Yorks, at a date yet to be announced.
Aswat, 50, confessed to the 2005 London outrage, and a role in the 9/11 atrocity in 2001.
But he is set to be freed without ankle tag monitoring because of a loophole which forbids checks on psychiatric patients.
And Aswat, who was threatening to kill Christians, Jews and Muslim enemies as recently as 2022, will walk free with the warm wishes of Mr Justice Jay.
In what kind of screwed up society does a lifelong Muslim terrorist who’s responsible for the worst attack in the UK with 52 murders to his name & still considered by police as a major risk get to walk about in this country as a free man?
WTF are we doing? pic.twitter.com/uDb5KVKfE3— Steve Delaney 🇬🇧 (@Wokewaster) September 8, 2025
The British anti-terror types are unhappy because Mr. Aswat, despite having served his time, hasn’t changed his mind. This is problematic in their experienced eyes.
…His release comes despite papers showing Det Chief Supt Gareth Rees, a senior anti-terror detective, said he had “grave concerns” that Aswat remained a risk to national security.
In his witness statement, Mr Rees said of Aswat: “He has spoken positively of his time with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and expressed aspirations to reconnect with them.
“Based on my experience, this is conduct which gives me grave concerns about the risk which the defendant poses to the UK’s national security and to the public.”
20 years ago, Islamic terrorists blew up this bus in London and murdered 56 people. The man behind the attacks, Haroon Rashid Aswat, is now being released.
A mass murderer, walking free in London, while British moms sit in jail for social media posts. pic.twitter.com/BbH2hxcZ6y
— Joel Berry (@JoelWBerry) September 8, 2025
What really frosted everyone’s chaps were the judge’s words to the murderous Muslim, as the ‘warm wishes of Justice Jay‘ were exactly that.
I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST
…Mr Justice Jay: “When you are released, you are going to go back to your family, I think?”
Aswat: “In Yorkshire, yes.”
Mr Justice Jay: “OK. And you understand what these requirements are?” Aswat: “I have read through all the paperwork, yes.”
Mr Justice Jay: “OK. You probably want to put all of this behind you now?” Aswat: “Indeed, I do.”
Mr Justice Jay added: “It could not have been too pleasant being in American custody all that time.
“I have to wish you all the best and say to you that the way forward is to keep on your medication, listen to the advice you are going to get, and keep out of the sort of things you were doing.
UK judge wishes convicted al-Qaeda terrorist who killed 52 in London bus bombings “all the best” as he prepares to walk free in Britain Sir Robert Jay sympathised with al-Qaeda terrorist Haroon Aswat, who will be released from the hospital without ankle tag monitoring because of… pic.twitter.com/ajnwdko0Py
— Pete (@PeteJoh04991982) September 8, 2025
Cheerio, old boy. Do try to stay on the straight and narrow, won’t you?
What are the odds?
Blows my mind. Hopefully, he doesn’t blow up anything or anyone else.
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