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U.S. military prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for at least six detainees now being held at Guantanamo Bay. They are about to be officially charged  with murder and war crimes in connection with the Sept. 11 terror attacks on America, and the Pentagon wants to execute them, according to press reports.
Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Hartmann told the Associated Press and other reporters the charges against the six lay out a long-term sophisticated plan by the al-Qaida organization to attack the United States. The attack occurred over six years ago and killed nearly 3,000 Americans.

Hartmann is the legal adviser to the military tribunal system. He says the six include Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the attacks, in which hijacked planes were flown into buildings in New York and Washington. Another hijacked plane crashed in the fields of western Pennsylvania.

Military prosecutors will ask for the death penalty for the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans, according to a second official who asked to remain anonymous because the charges have not been announced.

Among those held at Guantanamo is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the attack six years ago in which hijacked planes were flown into buildings in New York and Washington. Five others are expected to be named in sworn charges.

“The department has been working diligently to prepare cases and bring charges against a number of individuals who have been involved in some of the most grievous acts of violence and terror against the United States and our allies,” the Pentagon acknowledged.