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by Antonio Di Bella
10 September 2021
T
erry Strada is a stubborn woman.
Her husband, Tom, died in the 9/11 bombing in New York.
Since then Terry has been one of the most insistent voices of family members, who call for more transparency on the investigation to shed full light on the massacre.
A massacre whose responsibilities are still shrouded in mystery. In these days in the special prison of Guantanamo, in the part of Cuba controlled by the United States, the umpteenth of the endless preliminary hearings to 5 defendants of the massacre begins. Accused number one Khalid Sheik Mohamed. Born in Pakistan, raised in Kuwait and arrested in Rawalpindi, he confessed that he suggested to Osama bin Laden the idea of crashing two planes into the Twin Towers. But his confession is the result of 15 years of torture (waterboarding) and his reliability is contested by the defense.
In the courtroom, for the first time there are some of the victims' families. Theirs is not only the waiting for the sentence, but the hope that some new facts will emerge about the possible international complicity of the attackers. Khalid Shiek Mohamed, to avoid the death sentence, could confess that the government of Saudi Arabia was complicit in the whole operation. Thesis always disavowed by the official investigation, but always supported on the contrary by Terry Strada and by many relatives of the victims. What is certain is that twenty years later we still don't know everything about that massacre.