From the BBC:

U.S. charges six suspects over 9/11

Top Afghan militant 'captured'

Some details on the story about those al Qaeda members charged. One is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of 9/11.

In listing more details of the charges against the defendants, Gen Hartmann alleged that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had proposed the attacks to al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in 1996, had obtained funding and overseen the operation and the training of hijackers in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a Kuwaiti of Pakistani extraction, was said to have been al-Qaeda's third in command when he was captured in Pakistan in March 2003.

He has reportedly admitted to decapitating kidnapped US journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002 but these charges do not relate to that.

The BBC's Vincent Dowd in Washington says Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has said he planned every part of the 9/11 attacks but that his confession may prove problematic as the CIA admitted using controversial "waterboarding" techniques.

Human rights groups regard the procedure as torture.

US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told the BBC the trials would be fair.

Asked if evidence obtained from waterboarding - a controversial interrogation technique that simulates drowning - would be used, he said: "The judges will decide what's reasonably admissible and what's not admissible."

I'll always remember this line from a New Yorker article on the CIA's secret interrogations:

Soon after Mohammed’s arrest, sources say, his American captors told him, “We’re not going to kill you. But we’re going to take you to the very brink of your death and back.”

On the second, the captured militant is Mansoor Dadullah, who got sacked by Taliban leader Mullah Omar. And where was Dadullah nabbed?

If you guessed Pakistan's Baluchistan province, you win a free serving of naan bread. Mind you, the Beeb article reported that Dadullah had just crossed over from Afghanistan.