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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.
Critics of Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to bring the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and four other accused terrorists to New York for trial can't seriously believe the city will have trouble handling the expected "Trial of the Century" hoopla. The critics can't really think a judge is going to give Khalid Sheikh Mohammed an open microphone to spew his jihadist views ...
A German government official says the nation will send an observer to the upcoming trial in New York of the professed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks and four accused henchmen.
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.
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?
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...
Hot sauce and a comb were all an al-Qaida suspect in New York needed to nearly kill one of his guards nine years ago. The bloody episode suggests that security worries in bringing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 suspects to trial here could be just as big inside the courthouse as outside.
Fearing for the lives of the 9/11 fiends, the German government will send a team of observers to the New York terror trials to make sure evidence by its agents doesn't lead to the death penalty. Germany, which bans the death penalty, will have a...
BERLIN -- A German government official says the nation will send an observer to the upcoming trial in New York of the professed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks and four accused henchmen. Justice Ministry spokeswoman Katharina Jahntz today...
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.
On Monday, the Massachusetts Environmental Police will rename a patrol boat after Amy Sweeney of Acton, a flight attendant on American Airlines flight 11, which was crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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.
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? Some also worry that the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will make New York an even bigger terrorist target, and that ...
NEW YORK and mdash; Hot sauce and a comb were all an al-Qaida suspect in New York needed to nearly kill one of his guards nine years ago. The bloody episode suggests that security worries in bringing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 suspects to trial here could be just as big inside the courthouse as outside.
Obama, Holder predict conviction in 9/11 case Staff Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - From opposite ends of the globe, President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder firmly rejected criticism Wednesday of the planned New York trial of the professed Sept. 11 mastermind and predicted Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would be exposed as a murderous coward, convicted and executed. "Failure is not an option ...
A widow of a man who died when his plane hit a World Trade Center tower during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York is upset that Birmingham might use steel from the building's wreckage as a memorial to the victims at a city park.
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