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...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC yesterday wednesday,November 23,2016 arraigned the quartet of Colonel Nicholas Ashinze,a former special assistant to the embattled former National Security Adviser,Col. Sambo Dasuki; an Austrian,Wolfgang Reini; Edidiong Idiong and Sagir D. Mohammed before Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court,Abuja on a 13-count charge of corruption and money laundering to the tune of N36.8billion.Ashinze and his co-accused were arraigned alongside five companies accused of allegedly diverting huge sums from the office of the former NSA.The companies are: Geonel Integrated Services Limited,Unity Continental Nigeria Limited,Helpline Organization,Vibrant Resource Limited and Sologic Integrated Services Limited.The defendants pleaded not guilty to all the charges preferred against them.In view of their plea,counsel to EFCC I.O Uket expressed readiness for trial to commence immediately saying he had the witnesses present in court.Uket arhued that the defendants had lost their administrative bail the moment their matter was charged to court and their counsels filed applications for their bail.Ruling on the applications,Justice Kolawole held that the charges are all bailable adding that, ''since each of the other,my sixth judicial sense informs me that I adopt the terms and conditions of the bail granted to the defendants by the EFCC and my learned brothers in the FCT High Courts.The judge added that the case would be granted accelerated hearing and urged the prosecution to pick five days in the new year for trial.Consequently,the case was adjourned to January 23,February 1 and 14; and March 7 and 21,2017.
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