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Will federal court be right arena for 9/11 mastermind?
Quick ReadMore than eight years later, Mohammed, a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, will soon be transferred to federal court in Manhattan.
Photo credit: AP | This July 2009 photo downloaded from an Arabic language Web site shows a man identified as Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. An Obama administration official said Nov. 13, 2009, that he and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court.
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When two planes struck the Twin Towers in Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was sitting in an Internet cafe in Karachi, Pakistan, monitoring the attacks. At first, Mohammed later told CIA interrogators, he was disappointed. He said that he expected the towers to crumble immediately and that he feared they might not fall at all.
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