Time moves slowly for the five men accused of the 9/11 attacks. 

Sixteen years after the World Trade Center was toppled, the case against the alleged mastermind and his co-plotters looks set to drag on for years, if not decades, defence lawyers told Al Jazeera. 

Apart from Hurricane Irma's 250kph winds, little moves fast at Guantanamo Bay, the US Navy base in southeast Cuba where the men are detained. Their proceedings have not picked up pace since Donald Trump became president of the United States in January. 

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, or "KSM", has been dubbed the "architect of 9/11". He and his four alleged co-conspirators all face the death penalty in a case that is still crawling through the pretrial stages of a military commission. 

"It perplexes me that this isn't a cause for more outrage back in the US," Shayana Kadidal, a lawyer on several post-9/11 cases for the Center for Constitutional Rights legal action group, told Al Jazeera.

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