9/11 Defendant Ruling: He Lost His Mental Health Due to Torture

The US court ruled that Ramzi Binalshibh, a Yemeni national allegedly linked to the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, was mentally unstable as a result of being tortured.

According to the New York Times, prosecutor Colonel Matthew McCall claimed that Binalshibh, who was tortured by the CIA, suffered great psychological damage and lost the ability to defend himself, and stated that he could not be tried with the death penalty.

The prosecutor removed Binalshibh from the case, tried in the framework of the “conspiracy case with 5 accused.”

McCall emphasized that Binalshibh was completely delusional and therefore unable to defend himself, and said the Yemeni national should not be included in the case until his mental health improved.

This decision was made as a result of the request of Binalshibh’s lawyer, David Bruck, and was based on the Mental Health Board’s report that the Yemeni national had lost his mental health due to the traumas he experienced.

Prosecutors in the case were offering life sentences to the defendants until this week in exchange for confessing to their role in the 9/11 attacks.

Binalshibh, who is on trial for allegedly being an accessory to the 9/11 attacks, also faces charges of aiding the Hamburg Cell group. (AA)