Khalid Sheikh Mohammed faces Guantanamo trial for 9/11
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (centre) had a pre-trial hearing at Guantanamo in December 2008 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, will be tried in a military commission at Guantanamo Bay, reports say.
Attorney General Eric Holder is set to announce the decision later on Monday.The Obama administration had planned to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court, but abandoned that plan in the face of fierce opposition.
President Obama recently lifted a freeze on new military trials at Guantanamo Bay prison.
Mr Obama 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.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has been held by the US since being captured in Pakistan in 2003.
In a 2007 hearing, he alleged that he had been tortured at Guantanamo Bay. CIA documents confirmed that he had been waterboarded 183 times.
US prosecutors say that Mohammed has confessed to a host of terrorist activities in addition to 9/11.
These include the 2002 nightclub boming in Bali, Indonesia, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the murder of American journalist Daniel Peal and a failed 2001 attempt to blow up an airliner using a shoe bomb
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