Five 9/11 terror suspects to be tried in New York
Quick ReadSelf-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will face trial in a civilian federal court.
Photo credit: AP Photo/Anonymous | This July 2009 photo downloaded from the Arabic language web site www.muslm.net shows a man identified by the site as Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, in detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The picture was allegedly taken by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and released only to the detainee's family.
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Five men suspected of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks will be put on trial in a federal courthouse about eight blocks from where the World Trade Center stood in a politically risky move announced Friday by the Obama administration.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said he intends to authorize the prosecution team to seek the death penalty against the suspects - all currently held at Guantánamo...
