A trial date has been set for the man whom the 9/11 Commission called “the principal architect” of 9/11, according to an ABC News report. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s trial will begin on June 5, 2028, more than a quarter century after his capture on March 1, 2003, officials said. The trial date was set Wednesday as New Yorkers prepare to mark the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attack, which ...

This handout photo from March 1, 2003, shows, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged organizer of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, shortly after his capture.

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A trial date has been set for the man whom the 9/11 Commission called “the principal architect” of 9/11, according to an ABC News report.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s trial will begin on June 5, 2028, more than a quarter century after his capture on March 1, 2003, officials said.

The trial date was set Wednesday as New Yorkers prepare to mark the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attack, which killed thousands and changed the city’s skyline forever.

“Trial on the merits shall begin on Monday, 5 June 2028,” military judge Lt. Col. Michael Schrama announced Wednesday.

Mohammed was transferred to Guantanamo Bay in September 2006 and has remained at the military prison on the Cuban coast ever since.

Prosecutors sought to bring Mohammed to trial in 2027, but a judge said that was too soon, according to ABC.

In its report, the 9/11 Commission wrote that “no one exemplifies the model of the terrorist entrepreneur more clearly than Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.”

“Highly educated and equally comfortable in a government office or a terrorist safehouse, KSM applied his imagination, technical aptitude, and managerial skills to hatching and planning an extraordinary array of terrorist schemes,” the commission’s report read. “These ideas included conventional car bombing, political assassination, aircraft bombing, hijacking, reservoir poisoning, and, ultimately, the use of aircraft as missiles guided by suicide operatives.”

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