A ruled Wednesday that the behind the 9/11 attacks will stand trial starting in June 2028.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be prosecuted alongside others suspected of conspiring in the attacks: Walid bin Attash, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi.
Mohammed is accused of orchestrating the plot to crash hijacked planes into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. A fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania during the attacks.
He has been held at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, since 2006.
Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Schrama, a military commissions judge, on Wednesday rejected the January 2027 start date proposed by prosecutors and instead for about 18 months later.
The trial date was announced after a split federal appeals court last summer that would have allowed Mohammed to plead guilty in exchange for sparing him the risk of execution.
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