9/11 families still waiting for justice 25 years later as trial delays for terror plotters drag on: Unconscionable

Twenty-five years after Sept.11, 2001, families and friends of the nearly 3,000 people killed that day remain dismayed that still no one has been convicted — or even stood trial — for the terror attacks.Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed architect of the deadliest acts of terror on American soil, and four of his alleged al-Qaida cronies remain behind bars at the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.“So many family members have passed in the past 25 years.How sad that these people didn’t live long enough to see justice served,” Maggie McDonnell-Tiberio, whose emergency service NYPD officer husband Brian McDonnell died in the attacks, told The Post.“Twenty-five years is too long to wait.”The case has suffered a massive array of setbacks, including years of recent legal squabbles over a scrapped 2024 plea deal in which Mohammed and two others had agreed to admit their guilt in exchange for dodging the death penalty.The fifth military judge to hear the case, Lt.

Col.Michael Schrama, set a June 2028 trial date last month — then days later threw a potential wrench in the case by ruling that the head plotter’s 2007 confession cannot be used in court because it was tainted by torture.Relatives of the people killed on that fateful day — including more than 400 heroic first responders — are feeling both anguish and outrage as they continue their absurdly long wait for justice.“It is unconscionable that 25 years later, there still has not been a trial, and we have to wait another two years,” Carol D’Allara, whose husband, NYPD officer John D’Allara, died on 9/11, told The Post.“Who knows if it’ll even happen then, since they’ve already changed the date numerous times.”McDonnell-Tiberio said that 25 years “seems like a lifetime ago.”“With the anniversary, there are so many videos popping up again.

Every time I see a video of the towers collapsing, I imagine Brian falling to his death,” she said.The marathon of delays s...