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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks on the US in 2001, is set to face a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay on nearly 3,000 counts of murder.
Mohammed and four other detainees will be arraigned for the first time on Thursday inside a high-security courthouse at the US naval base.
The United States claims Mohammed confessed to masterminding the September 11 attacks but his lawyers say the confession was extracted by torture.
Mohammed, who was arrested in Pakistan in March 2003, will be given the chance to address the tribunal, officials said.
Death penalty
All five suspects could face the death penalty if convicted.
They were transferred to Guantanamo in Cuba in September 2006 after spending about three years in secret CIA prisons.
Thursday's arraignment poses the highest-profile test yet of a US military tribunal system that faces an uncertain future.
The US supreme court struck down an earlier system as unconstitutional in 2006, and is to rule this month on the rights of Guantanamo prisoners, potentially delaying or halting the proceedings.
With less than eight months remaining in office for George Bush, the US president, presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain both say they want to close the military's offshore detention centre.
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Al-Jazeera
