Plea deals for 9/11 alleged mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and two other suspects in the 2001 attacks on the United States to serve life in prison instead of the death penalty have been upheld by a U.

A military judge has ruled that plea agreements in the Sept. 11 case were valid, making it possible for the three prisoners accused of helping to plot the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to be sentenced to life in prison instead of death.

Plea agreements with 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants are valid and binding, a US military judge said in a ruling published Thursday, three months after the deals were scrapped by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

A military judge has ruled to restore the plea deals struck by 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co-conspirators