Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. has admitted being responsible "from A to Z" for the 9/11 attacks.
Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said this demonstrates "to the world that the most powerful nation on earth also trusts its judicial system".
Two Yemenis, a Saudi and a Pakistani-born Kuwaiti and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will face trial.
They are accused of helping finance and plan the attacks of 11 September 2001 which killed 3,000 people.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed believed to be the number three of al-Qaeda.
He was captured in Pakistan in March 2003. He told a pre-trial hearing at Guantanamo in December 2008 that he wanted to plead guilty to all charges against him.
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