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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.
Seth Wenig/The Associated Press The federal courthouse complex in New York City is just blocks from the World Trade Center site. 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.
New York juries are known for rarely imposing death penalties, and in the case of alleged 9/11 ringleader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed there's even more reason to think that may be the case.
New York City residents -- and the rest of the country -- are nearly evenly split on the question about whether to try the admitted mastermind of the 9/11 attacks in Manhattan instead of in Guantanamo Bay, new polls showed yesterday. A Marist poll...
*Editor's note: A full transcript of this conference call will be available later. The decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the accused mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, in federal court in New York has elicited strong reactions from across the political spectrum.
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
The acknowledgment that the trial of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed could be moved from New York to Connecticut became fodder for an attack Thursday on U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, D-Conn., by Republican challenger Rob Simmons.
The attorney general told a Senate committee that federal court is the best place to try five accused co-conspirators in the Sept. 11 attacks.
Chairman of 9/11 commission says Khalid Sheikh Mohammed should be tried in military hearings
Attorney General Eric Holder says New York City should not bear the financial burden of providing security at the trial of suspected 9-11 terrorists.
In the biggest trial for the age of terrorism, the professed Sept. 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.
'I'm not scared of what Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has to say at trial, and no one else has to be afraid either,' Holder tells Senate Judiciary Committee. Senate Republicans criticize the plan. The Obama administration came out swinging today in support of a criminal trial for the alleged plotters of the Sept. 11 attacks, but it faced sharp criticism from Republican lawmakers who said a public trial ...
Attorney General Eric Holder is telling senators "failure is not an option" when it comes to the prosecution of professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Holder has been explaining his decision to bring Mohammed and four other terror suspects from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay to federal court in Manhattan for a civilian trial.
Zacarias Moussaoui's six-week 2006 sentencing trial is a proceeding that may foreshadow how the upcoming 9/11 trial in New York will go. Don't expect a speedy resolution.
Gov. Paterson on Monday joined the chorus of critics questioning the government's plan to try Kalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other accused 9/11 terrorists in New York.
A slim majority of Americans think five accused Sept. 11 plotters should be tried by a military tribunal rather than a civilian court -- and nearly half are concerned that their federal trial will "turn into a circus," a Fox News poll finds.
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