9/11 Suspects' Records Will Be Turn In By U.S Prosecutors

Fort Meade - U.S prosecutors stated that on Thursday they would turn in thousand of documents to lawyers for the five men charged with plotting the 9/11 attacked, as reported. This was in connection to the attacks that happened last September 11, 2001 which devastated New York and Washington.

The men were held at a U.S military base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba and said that they were tortured endlessly by officials. Their lawyers have been fighting for years to obtain the papers which states the records of their clients on how they were badly treated by the Central Intelligence Agency. They were basically tortured in different prisons of the CIA before arriving in the country last 2006. Reuters wrote that a U.S. Senate in 2014 reported of how harshly the CIA have carried out the interrogation program as it believe that suspects were tortured in their facilities ever since they were held captive.

Chief Prosecutor Brigadier General Mark Marin stated during a pre-trial at the U.S Naval Base in Cuba, "we are working seven days a week," pertaining to his promise in delivering more than 1,000 pages of documents for judicial review by March 22. The hearing was closely monitored over a closed-circuit video connecting to a media center at Fort Meade in Maryland. The files are arranged in a chronological order of the sites where the men stayed, pictures of living arrangements of their prison and statements obtained from the interrogation, he added as cited in Yahoo.

However, defense attorneys were too dismayed resulting them to criticize the prosecution. They said that the government is given too much power to pick through the evidence which is relevant. "The government can't be in a decision-making position without knowing what the theories of defense are," says Cheryl Bormann who is Wali bin Attash attorney, an accused in operating an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan. Cheryl also stated that this on-going legal procedure is, "by far the most restrictive discovery regimen I have ever seen in my career."

A lot of people were killed during the incident of 9/11, almost 3,000 individuals were found dead under series of debris from explosions coming from the building. The hijackers slammed airlines into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field on that date. September 11, 2001 shocked the whole world yet the trial is still on-going for those persons who were accused of such an attack. 

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