Washington DC —A judge of the American military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has declared Ramzi Bin Al-Sheib, an accused in the 9/11 case, mentally and psychologically incompetent, saying that he cannot be prosecuted for the death penalty.
51-year-old Ramzi Bin Al-Sheib from Yemen is one of the five suspects imprisoned in the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, who are being tried in connection with the attacks of Al-Qaeda on American cities on September 11, 2001. In all these attacks, around 3,000 people were killed and more than 6,000 people were injured.
In addition to Ramzi bin Al-Sheib, the 9/11 case includes Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Mustafa Ahmad Al-Husawi, and Waleed bin Atash. The pre-trial hearing against the accused in the 9/11 case is starting on Friday. The plea agreement between the US government and the accused is being negotiated. And a special mental health hearing ruled that he had been tortured by the CIA, so the detainee would not be able to defend himself at trial or enter a plea.
In August 2023, a military medical board found him mentally unfit to stand trial and said he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, secondary psychosis and delusional disorder.
A New York Times report said that Ramzi bin al-Sheib had been complaining for years that he was being tormented by invisible forces, causing his bed and prison cell to shake and that he felt that body parts are being stabbed, causing him to lose sleep. The Guantanamo detainee's defense attorney has claimed that his client was tortured by the CIA and that he was subjected to lengthy interrogations. They have become mentally abnormal due to the procedure. The CIA's interrogation methods were called Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, which included sleep deprivation, waterboarding and beatings.
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Defense lawyers Kamzeid say that Ramzi bin Al-Sheib needs psychiatric treatment and is no longer subject to solitary confinement.
What are the charges against Ramzi bin Al-Sheib?
Ramzi bin al-Sheib is accused of organizing the 9/11 hijackers' cell in Hamburg, Germany, researching flight schools from Germany, providing training to hijack passenger planes, and providing money to Mohammad Atta and other hijackers.
In addition, he was acting as a liaison between the German cell and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Afghanistan, conveying to al-Qaeda leaders that Atta had chosen the September 11 date for the attack.Ramzi Bin al-Sheib tried repeatedly to obtain a visa to the United States to participate in the hijacking, but failed.
Who is Ramzi bin Al-Sheib?
Ramzi bin Al-Sheib belongs to Yemen. On September 11, 2002, Ramzi was detained along with others in a series of security services raids on suspected al-Qaeda hideouts in Karachi, Pakistan. After which he was handed over to the American authorities. For four years he remained in secret CIA custody in several countries around the world, and was transferred to Guantanamo Bay in September 2006. Ramzi bin Al-Sheib was declared a high-value prisoner at Guantanamo Bay. And they are still imprisoned there.
The 9/11 case
Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, a Pakistani who is believed to be the mastermind of 9/11, and four other suspected terrorists were detained at various times and locations in 2002 and 2003 and brought to the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 2006 to face trial. coins
All five are charged with conspiracy, terrorism, murder and aiding and abetting terrorism. Lawyers are demanding that all five be provided with better health and treatment facilities and be spared solitary confinement.
It has been 22 years since the 9/11 attacks, but the case against the five men held at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, accused of planning the attacks, is still pending. There is consideration. On September 6, the White House said in a statement that President Joe Biden had refused to accept or reject demands made by lawyers to resolve the 9/11 case.
Since 2008, the series of pre-trials against the suspects of 9/11 has been going on intermittently in the military court of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Most of the hearings are bogged down by legal arguments and claims of torture and abuse by prisoners. Lawyers and judges have changed several times. But the formal trial has not yet started, nor has a date been set.
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The terrorist attack of September 11, 2001
On September 11, 2001, Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four passenger planes in the United States. Two of them hit the World Trade Center in New York, and one hit the Pentagon building near Washington DC. The fourth plane was on its way to Washington DC but crashed in Pennsylvania after the crew and passengers tried to storm the cockpit.
The content of this news is taken from Pentagon Military Commission, AFP, AP and New York Times.
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