Guantanamo Hearing Details 9/11 Defendants' Phone Calls Prior to Attacks - Lawdragon

Khalid Shaikh Mohammad and three of his co-defendants in the months before the attacks. The government believes the calls involved coded conversations “in furtherance” of the 9/11 conspiracy, and were made between April and October 2001.

The revelations came not from the prosecution team but from James Connell, the lead attorney for Ammar al Baluchi, who is Mohammad’s nephew and accused of assisting the hijackers with financing and travel. Five detainees in total face the death penalty for their alleged roles in the attacks that killed 2,976 people.