Ramzi bin al-Shibh is one of five defendants accused of being key accomplices to the 9/11 attacks. A military tribunal in Guantánamo Bay found bin al-Shibh mentally unfit for trial. For years, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, 51, was detained in Guantánamo Bay under suspicion that he helped organize the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. AdvertisementAdvertisementCol. Matthew McCall, the military judge, agreed on Thursday that al-Shibh should be severed from the trial due to his mental state. "It is no longer possible" to deny "that the CIA torture program did profound harm to the people subjected to it," he said.

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Persons: Ramzi bin al, bin, Shibh, Matthew McCall, Bin, David I, Bruck, bin al Shibh Organizations: CIA, Service, Associated Press, The New York Times, Prosecutors, Times, Justice Locations: Guantánamo, Wall, Silicon, Guantánamo Bay, Yemeni, Hamburg, Germany