Hours before dawn on March 1, 2003, the United States scored its most thrilling victory yet against the plotters of the September 11 attacks – the capture of a dishevelled Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, hauled away by intelligence agents from a hideout in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.The global manhunt for al-Qaeda’s number three leader had taken 18 months. But the US’s attempt to bring him to justice, in a legal sense, has taken much, much longer. Critics say it has become one of the “war on terror’s” greatest failures.As Sunday’s 21st anniversary of the attacks approaches, Mohammed and four other men accused of 9/11-related crimes still sit in a US detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, their planned trials before a military tribunal endlessly postponed.
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