Washington: United States President Barack Obama administration has decided to trial Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, in a military commission at Guantanamo Bay, reports say.
Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to announce the decision later on Monday.
The Obama administration had planned to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court, but the case had been abandoned owing to fierce opposition.
President Obama recently lifted a freeze on new military trials at Guantanamo Bay prison.
He accused the US Congress of harming national security by opposing his plan to close the controversial Cuban prison and try some terror suspects in US civilian courts.
Mohammed has been held by the United States since being captured in Pakistan in 2003.
In a hearing of 2007, Mohammed alleged that he had been tortured at Guantanamo Bay. CIA documents confirmed that he had been water-boarded 183 times.
The accused has confessed to a host of terrorist activities in addition to 9/11, US prosecutors say.
These include the 2002 nightclub bombing in Bali, Indonesia, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the murder of American journalist Daniel Peal and a failed 2001 attempt to destroy an airliner using a shoe bomb.
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