Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a 2009 photoVideo of Charles Krauthammer on Obama's decision to give Sheikh Mohammed a criminal trial
NYC trial of 9/11 suspects -Delvin Barrett
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.
Held at Guantanamo since September 2006, [Khalid Sheikh] Mohammed said in military proceedings there that he wanted to plead guilty and be executed to achieve martyrdom. In a letter from him released by the war crimes court, he referred to the attacks as a "noble victory."
[Associated Press]
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