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The alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks will be tried in a civilian court blocks from where Al-Qaeda hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center, the US government announced Friday.
WASHINGTON - In the biggest trial for the age of terrorism, the professed 9/11 mastermind and four alleged henchmen will be hauled before a civilian court on American soil, barely a thousand yards from the site of the World Trade Center’s twin towers they are accused of destroying.
Security issues and legal issues collide, as New Yorkers are taking sides over the terror trial for the accused mastermind of the September 11 attacks. Should he be allowed to walk into a New York City courtroom, just steps from Ground Zero? "I think it's a logistical and security nightmare for the American People," Alice Hoagland, mother of a 9/11 victim, said.
Tonight's meeting in which the Birmingham Public Arts Board was to discuss a proposed 9/11 memorial out of ruined World Trade Center steel has been canceled for a lack of quorum.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Zacarias Moussaoui was a clown who could not keep his mouth shut, according to his old al-Qaida boss, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. But Moussaoui was surprisingly tame when tried for the 9/11 attacks — never turning the courtroom into the circus of anti-U.S. tirades that some fear Mohammed will create at his trial in New York.
WASHINGTON—In the biggest trial for the age of terrorism, the professed 9/11 mastermind and four alleged henchmen will be hauled before a civilian court on American soil, barely a thousand yards from the site of the World Trade Center’s twin towers they are accused of destroying.
WASHINGTON — In the biggest trial for the age of terrorism, the professed 9/11 mastermind and four alleged henchmen will be hauled before a civilian court on American soil, barely a thousand yards from the site of the World Trade Center’s twin towers they are accused of destroying.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the biggest trial for the age of terrorism, the professed 9/11 mastermind and four alleged henchmen will be hauled before a civilian court on American soil, barely a thousand yards from the site of the World Trade Center’s twin towers they are accused of destroying.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the biggest trial for the age of terrorism, the professed 9/11 mastermind and four alleged henchmen will be hauled before a civilian court on American soil, barely a thousand yards from the site of the World Trade Center's twin towers they are accused of destroying.
Zacarias Moussaoui was a clown who could not keep his mouth shut, according to his old al-Qaida boss, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. But Moussaoui was surprisingly tame when tried for the 9/11 attacks - never turning the courtroom...
New York juries are often loath to impose the death penalty, even for terrorists. In fact, a jury spared the lives of two Osama bin Laden followers a month after Sept. 11, while the World Trade Center's ruins were still smoldering.
NEW YORK (AP) - New York juries are often loath to impose the death penalty, even for terrorists. In fact, a jury spared the lives of two Osama bin Laden followers a month after Sept. 11, while the World Trade Center's ruins were still smoldering.
Zacarias Moussaoui was a clown who could not keep his mouth shut, according to his old al-Qaida boss, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. But Moussaoui was surprisingly tame when tried for the 9/11 attacks - never turning the courtroom...
The move to put the self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind on trial just blocks from ground zero raises a host of legal, political and security questions, chief among them: Can a fair-minded jury be found in a city still nursing deep wounds from the attack on the World Trade Center?
It was announced on Friday the 13th by Attorney General Eric Holder that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the (alleged) mastermind of the 9/11 attacks that killed 3,000 Americans, will stand trial in a civilian New York City federal court.
Darlene Spell lived out the horror of the Sept. 11 attack, losing 96 co-workers in the World Trade Center’s South Tower. News that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind, and his alleged co-conspirators would be brought to trial just blocks away made Spell feel powerless.
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