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In court with the '9/11 mastermind', two decades after his arrest

Alice Cuddy
BBC News, reporting from Guantanamo Bay
Photo courtesy of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s legal team Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has a bushy orange beard and wears a red and white headscarf Photo courtesy of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s legal team
A recent photo of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Sitting on the front row of a war court on the US's Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of the world's most notorious defendants, appeared to listen intently.

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