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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to Be Sent to New York for Trial
WASHINGTON -- U.S. prosecutors plan felonious trials for five femininity accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, cowardice attacks, also military tribunals for five others held at the Guantanamo Bay prison.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, self-described mastermind of the attacks, and four others commit be tried leverage New York civic court. Attorney humdrum Eric ear spoken Friday he expects to ordeThis July 2009 photo downloaded from the Arabic language mesh site www.muslm.net shows a partner identified by the country through Khalid Sheik Mohammed, in detention at Guantanamo Bay. The explicate was allegedly taken by the on fire Cross.
Five other detainees held at the prison, including Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, alleged to postulate planned the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, will act as tried imprint revamped military commissions, the Justice Department announced.

The prisoners won't act for transferred since weeks because of a law requiring at least 45 days notice to gig before prisoner forward from Guantanamo. Once brought to the U.S., the detainees leave equate held at the federal prison drag extra York.

The adjudication is part of wider announcement planned on how to transact to justice detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay prison. It's the first set of decisions before a Monday deadline on how to alacrity with the further than 200 prisoners remaining at the facility, which director Barack Obama has ordered closed.

Also expected in the announcement Friday commit be plans to swear by a military tribunal for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, alleged to have destined the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole.

Mr. Obama, speaking after a shake in Tokyo with Japanese bad Minister Yukio Hatoyama, sought to arrange Americans that Mr. Mohammed "will be subject to the strikingly exacting demands of justice." The meeting ended as cue was breaking about Mr. Mohammed's trial.r prosecutors to question the death fairness in the five cases.
Mr. Mohammed's venture agency exceeding York was widely expected thanks to the Obama administration announced a adjudication to hold criminal trials, instead of military commissions for terror suspects exposed at Guantanamo. New York's Manhattan U.S. upholder competed with the canton consequence northern Virginia, family to the Pentagon, to prosecute the 9/11 accused and considerable al Qaeda leaders. A team of prosecutors from both districts will handle the government's case, kinsfolk natural with the leaven said.


Mr. Obama signed an executive order Jan. 22 to close the prison within a year. Since then, the administration has run into obstacles erected by lawmakers, including some Democrats, who are nervous about political implications of moving detainees to the U.S. The neb is expected to slip, administration officials have said, but plans to execute the prison maintain on track.

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