The first came in 1993, three weeks after the first attack on the World Trade Center. This indictment was ran a page and charged two defendants. More indictments would follow: 13 in all, each a replacement, addition of new conspiracies of terror suspects and charges by the Federal Government.
The latest came last week, with the seals of an indictment that charged Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in the terrorist attacks of September 11 a federal grand jury in Manhattan had secretly given up to the indictment on December 14, 2009. The document was not sealed and dismissed last Monday after Attorney General Eric h. Holder Jr. said that the detainees would receive the trials of military, to reverse an earlier decision.
But, despite its short lifespan, the 9/11 document is the culmination of a long line of Federal indictments, offering a rich history of terrorist plots that began with the first Trade Center attack. In another sense, the 2009 indictment is an update, several times over this deposit of 1993.
"Normally, an indictment is a snapshot at a time," said Lev l. Dassin, a former Attorney of the United States who was a junior attorney in the 1993 Trade Center trial, in which the four accused were found guilty. "Eventually telling a story."
It is not uncommon in the investigations of fast-breaking for the upcoming indictments in rapid succession. Four indictments follow quickly the first in the months after the bombing of 1993. As in past years, new defendants, charges and plots have been introduced.
"Very few people, if any, really understood what this indictment was, and how he would change the daily lives of the people, to the United States" said John j. Byrnes, a lawyer of the defence at trial, 1993.
Ramzi Ahmed Youssef, who led the attack of 1993, was originally named in the second version. In another version published in 1995, the Government stated that Mr. Yousef had a plan aborted, which became Bojinka, to blow up a dozen American airliners over the Pacific Ocean.
Mr. Mohammed, the professed of the attacks of September 11 brain, made his first appearance in the 13th indictment, which was published in 1998, the same day, Mr. Yousef was sentenced to life more than 240 years in prison by Judge Kevin Thomas Duffy of Court's Federal District for his roles in the 1993 attack, and the Bojinka plot. Mr. Mohammed, then a fugitive, has been charged with assisting in the Bojinka plot.
Thirteen years would pass before the sealing of the following indictment, the case of 9/11. It runs 80 pages, of which almost half devoted to a list of 2,976 victims.
Federal prosecutors have not developed on how they decided to present the 9/11 case.
He could apparently have good in another line of indictment that included a plot to blow up the monuments of the city of New York.
Or he could still be another series that began in 1998, charged with Osama bin Laden leading a worldwide conspiracy to kill Americans, which included the bombings of two US embassies in Africa. Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, the Guantánamo inmate tried in the civil last year system, part of this case.
But it seems there have been legal reasons, practices and even symbolic to charge Mr. Mohammed in the lineage that began with the 1993 Trade Center attack.
Karen j. Greenberg, Executive Director of the Centre for law and security at the University of New York, in the particular appearance of Mr. Mohammed in 1990s Bojinka indictment before September 11 cited.
"A large point of these trials is present to the public the history that we are otherwise", she said.
"Symbolically, it has everything to do with understanding the threat, we are below, and how it is changed to the role of the time K.S.M. and how significant was".
The case of 9/11 had been assigned to judge Duffy, who had already treated three trials in the attack of 1993 and the Bojinka plot. In some respects, the indictments have evolved into a kind of genealogy of terrorism that allows plots to people, and families to be traced. Mr. Yousef is related to the attack of 1993 and the Bojinka plot. Mr. Mohammed is accused of Bojinka and conspiracy to 2001. He is also uncle of Mr. Yousef.
Ronald l. Kuby, a lawyer who has long been accused of terrorism, said it was sceptical of the broad indictments which aims to link the conspiracies and acts that took place around the world and the years apart.
But the CR 180 93 series gave sentences of all eight defendants who have tried (Mr. Yousef twice), with their convictions, affirmed on appeal.
After the announcement of the owner Mr. last week that the 9/11 detainees might be tried at Guantanamo, a former Attorney sounds almost nostalgic about dismissal of the indictment.
"It's almost like an obituary," he said. "You don't get what it will come back at any time soon".
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