MILITARY JUDGE SUPPRESSES KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMMED’S FBI CONFESSION IN 9/11 CASE. (PHOTO).
Military judge suppresses Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s FBI confession in 9/11 case A military judge has excluded a confession that alleged Sept. 11 attacks mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed gave to FBI agents nearly 20 years ago, ruling that the statements were not made voluntarily. The decision is a setback for the U.S. government's long-running effort to prosecute Mohammed, who is accused of helping develop the plot to hijack planes and crash them into the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Mohammed remains detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, alongside other defendants awaiting trial. Lt. Col. Michael Schrama, the judge overseeing the case, scheduled a June 2028 trial for Mohammed and three other defendants earlier this week. In an order issued Friday that has not been made public, Schrama barred prosecutors from using statements Mohammed made during four days of FBI questioning at Guantanamo in January 2007. Mohammed had previously been captured and held by the CIA, where he was subjec...
It was reported today that a boat packed with mainly African migrants bound for Italy sank off the Libyan coast yesterday thursday and officials said up to 200 people might have died.A security official in the western town of Zuwara,from where the over crowded boat had set off,said there had been around 400 people on board.Many appeared to have been trapped in the hold when it capsized.By late in the evening,the Libyan coast guard rescued around 201 of which 147 were brought to a detention facility for illegal migrants in Sabratha,west of Tripoli.The migrants on board had been from sub-Saharan Africa,Pakistan,Syria,Morocco and Bangladesh.One more photo below. 
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