FORT MEADE, Md.– Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks, along with four co-defendants charged with planning and carrying out the attacks, acknowledged to the judge today that they understand and have no questions about their rights.
North Korea issued new threats against the South and its allies on Tuesday, saying it views a recent expansion of United Nations Security Council sanctions as an act of war.
The execution of 51-year-old Kimberly McCarthy is scheduled to take place on Tuesday evening, and if the sentence is carried out, will be the first female since September of 2010 to be put to death.
Although Russia has been the chief supplier for the Assad regime for years and years, and has vetoed U.N. Security resolutions condemning the Assad regime time and again, that country says now that they never supported the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.