Holder: 9/11 suspects to be tried in NY
By The Associated Press
This article was originally published November 13, 2009 at 10:45 a.m. Updated November 13, 2009 at 11:21 a.m.
PHOTO BY AP / ALEX BRANDON
Attorney General Eric Holder gestures during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington.
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan in this file photo from March 1, ...
WASHINGTON — Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be brought to trial in a civilian federal courthouse in New York, blocks from site of the devastating 2001 terror attacks. Prosecutors expect to seek the death penalty.
At a news conference Friday, Attorney General Eric Holder also announced that five other suspects, including a major suspect in the bombing of the USS Cole, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, will be tried before a military commission.
Holder said the defendants should be tried where their crimes occurred. The New York courthouse is near the site where the World Trade Centers were brought down by two hijacked jetliners. Nearly 3,000 people died there and in another hijacked jet that hit the Pentagon and a fourth hijacked plane crashed in western Pennsylvania.
Bringing such notorious suspects to U.S. soil to face trial is a key step in President Barack Obama’s plan to close the terror suspect detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Obama initially planned to close the detention center by Jan. 22, but the administration is no longer expected to meet that deadline.
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SpecialEd says... November 13, 2009 at 11:35 a.m.
Unbelievable...we can't call them terrorist and now they have constitutional rights to a fair trail. What's next?
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