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Wednesday, September 18, 2024

9/11 Families, Lawmakers Praise Reversal of Terrorist Plea Deals as ‘Just and Honorable Decision’

The families of 9/11 victims and congressional lawmakers praised Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for doing “the right thing” on Friday by revoking plea deals that would’ve spared three accused plotters of the terrorist attacks the death penalty.

They now want justice and for a trial date to be set “immediately.”

“Thank God!” Kathy Vigiano, the widow of NYPD Detective Joseph Vigiano, who was among the nearly 3,000 people killed on Sept. 11, 2001, told The Post when she learned of the scrapped plea deals for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — the accused mastermind of the al Qaeda attacks — and his two alleged helpers, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi.

Read the rest of the story at New York Post.

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