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...
According to sources,a five member screening committee set up by the All Progressive Congress has disqualified a former member of the House of Representatives,Uche Ekwunife,from contesting election into the vacant seat of the Anambra Central Senatorial District.The part selected Sharan Ikeazor,a former interim woman leader of the party,as its candidate in the election.The Court of Appeal,sitting in Enugu,had in December declared the seat vacant and ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct a fresh election within 90 days.The court quashed the earlier ruling of the National Assembly Election Tribunal that Mrs Ekwunife had won the seat in the March 28,2015 senatorial election,which she conrsted as a member of the Peoples Democratic Party.The appeal was filed by the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance,Victor Umeh.Following her loss at the appeal court,Mrs Ekwunife defected to the APC to contest the rerun since the Party's candidate in the March election,Chris Ngige,had been appointed the minister of labour.The committee observed that Mrs Ekwunife was barely two weeks old in the APC and they said ''Most importantly,our deep concern is her record which showed that she dumps political parties at will,leaving the parties in its wake factionalized from the Peoples Democratic Party {PDP} to All Progress Grand Alliance {APGA},to Progressive Peoples Alliance {PPA},back to PDP or vice versa and now to APC.She is more or less a fair weather hen therefore her antecedent contavenes Section 4{3} of the 2014 Guideline for Nomination of Candidate for Public Office,Caution is valour.The score sheet in respect of the aspirants is also attached herewith for further necessary action.The committee found that Aspirant Senator Uche Lilian Ekwunife,is ineligible to see the APC nomination for the Senatorial election''.One more photo below. 
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