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CCTV reporterIt is learned that on July 31, local time, the US prosecutor said that the three suspects accused of planning the 9/11 terrorist attackshas agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy in exchange for life in prison rather than awaiting a death penalty trial at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

A senior Pentagon official approved the plea agreements for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid bin Atash and Mustafa Khossawi, according to a Pentagon official familiar with the matter.

The three have been in U.S. custody since 2003. The contents of the plea agreement were revealed in a letter from the prosecutor of the war tribunal to the families of the victims of 9/11: "In exchange, the three defendants agreed to plead guilty to all the crimes charged, including the murder of 976 people listed in the indictment." It is reported that the three suspects can file a plea in open court as early as next week.

On September 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four civilian airliners in the United States. Two of them crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one crashed into a corner of the Pentagon, and another crashed. A total of 2,977 innocent people were killed in the incident.

The US military established a prison in Guantanamo in 2002 to detain suspects captured by the US military in global anti-terrorism operations after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The US government believes that these suspects are "illegal combatants" captured by the US military in anti-terrorism operations, and therefore do not enjoy the rights of prisoners of war stipulated in the Geneva Convention. Guantanamo prison has been widely condemned for its repeated prisoner abuse scandals. Guantanamo prison once held about 780 people. (CCTV reporter Xu Tao)

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