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	Podcast:		Front Burner
	Episode:		Guantanamo Bay, torture and the long road to a 9/11 trial
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:19:33
	Publish Date:		2020-02-13 05:10:00
	Description:		It's been almost 20 years since four jets were hijacked mid-air and crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York, the Pentagon in D.C., and a field near Shanksville, Penn., killing nearly 3,000 people. Pretrials have begun, and a full trial date for the surviving alleged plotters of the attack is set for January 2021, at Guantanamo Bay. But the legal case — and the logistics of holding it at the notorious U.S. military base — are complicated. Today on Front Burner, longtime national security reporter Michelle Shephard on the preparations for what could be the trial of the century.
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