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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 (AP) — In a move both politically and legally risky, the Obama administration plans to put on trial the professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks and four alleged accomplices in a lower Manhattan courthouse.
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.
No other city is as up to snuff on emergency planning and preparedness as the Big Apple, Office of Emergency Management Commissioner Joseph Bruno said Thursday as he tried to lessen fears of holding the trial of the accused 9/11 mastermind in downtown Man.
Our view on prosecuting terror suspects: Unsettling choice for 9/11 trial has one big plus Defendants are getting more than they deserve, but it won’t likely help them. For eight years now, the government has struggled unsuccessfully for a perfect...
By TOM HOWELL JR. The controversy surrounding the decision to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-professed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, in a civilian courtroom reminds Newton attorney Dan Perez of Colin Ferguson.
Gov. Paterson came out guns blazing against President Obama yesterday -- taking the administration to task for sending 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed to Manhattan for a trial in the very shadow of the hallowed World Trade Center site. "This...
The daughter of a Framingham woman killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks hailed yesterday's decision to prosecute the self-described 9/11 mastermind in New York...
A woman whose husband died on the first plane to hit the World Trade Center during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, is urging Birmingham officials to forego erecting a memorial that would incorporate steel from the Twin Towers.
Photograph of a woman holding up a picture of pilot Charles Burlingame, whose plane was crashed into the Pentagon, behind AG Eric Holder by Alex Brandon/AP The furor over holding the trials of alleged 9/11 terror plotters in a Manhattan federal court continues to simmer. Yesterday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, "I’m not scared ...
The question of whether to try the 9/11 perpetrators in federal court or a military tribunal is not an easy one. It turns, in part, on whether you see the Al Qaeda attacks as an act of war or a criminal conspiracy.
A 3,000-pound section of steel recovered from the rubble of the World Trade Center was dedicated Saturday as the city's newest memorial to the victims of Sept. 11, 2001.
Attorney General Eric Holder defended his decision to prosecute the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks in a federal civilian court, but some Republicans weren't buying it. Bob Orr reports.
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