Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged planner of the September 11 attacks, and four other suspects have asked to plead guilty to the charges they face at a Guantanamo Bay tribunal.![Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is the alleged planner of the 9/11 attacks [EPA]](http://mwcnews.net/images/stories/Arabworld/al-quida/1/Khalid-B.jpg "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is the alleged planner of the 9/11 attacks [EPA]")
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is the alleged planner of the 9/11 attacks [EPA]
"We all five have reached an agreement to request from the commission an immediate hearing session in order to announce our confessions," said a note said to be from the five read out by the judge, Army Colonel Steven Henley, at a hearing on Monday.
The note said the confessions were being made "without being under any kind of pressure, threat, intimidations or promise from any party," Henley said.
Henley said he would question each of the five to ensure the guilty plea was their wish.
The note also said all five wished to plead guilty and withdraw any pending motions filed by their military-appointed lawyers, Henley said.
When asked by the judge if he was prepared to enter pleas Monday to all the charges should the commission allow the defendants to withdraw their motions, Mohammed said "Yes."
"We don't want to waste time," he told the judge, speaking in English.
The five defendants, who face the death penalty if convicted, were watched at the tribunal proceedings by five relatives of those killed on during the 2001 attacks, in which 3000 people were killed.
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