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Despite growing concerns that trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others in civilian court triggers a host of complications for the prosecution, Attorney General Eric Holder says he's confident the cases will be "successful." Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday stood by his decision to send five alleged Sept.

A lawyer for one of the five men facing trial for the Sept. 11 attacks says the men plan to plead not guilty and use the trial venue to express their political views.

Share + Nov 21, 2009 12:28 pm US/Eastern Reporting Marcia Kramer 1 of 3 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed AP 2 of 3 3 of 3 In this photo reviewed by US military officials, a detainee whose name, nationality, and facial identification are not permitted, walks within the grounds of the Camp 5 maximum security prison at the Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base in Cuba, ...

Eight years after 9/11, the self proclaimed mastermind of the Al-Qaeda attack has been set for trial in federal court in New York City.

Republican Ranking Members yesterday demanded answers to questions posed over the past 10 months about the Administration's ill-advised decision to close Guantanamo Bay, according to a congressional report submitted to the 14,000-member National Association of Chiefs of Police .

THE long and painful quest to bring the plotters of the September 11, 2001 attacks to justice entered a potentially destructive new phase yesterday after the announcement of plans for a terrorist trial in New York provoked an angry backlash at President Barack Obama's administration.

Northern New York will maintain its representation on the House Armed Services Committee.

Five senior House Republicans are slamming the Obama administration for its decision to try five 9-11 conspirators in civilian court.

Share + Nov 18, 2009 7:41 pm US/Eastern Congressman Says Decision To Bring Terrorists To U.S. Among The 'Most Dangerous Any President Has Ever Made' Reporting Marcia Kramer 1 of 3 Long Island Congressman Peter King says President Obama's decision to have the 9/11 trial in New York City is one of the most dangerous a president has ever made.

The Obama administration said Friday that it will prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the Sept.

Mayor Mike thinks having the trials in NYC is "fitting." The announcement that Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other accused 9/11 terrorists will stand trial in New York City, has Empire State politicians taking sides: IN FAVOR: Mayor Michael Bloomberg "I support the Obama Administration's decision to prosecute 9/11 terrorists here," says NYC mayor ...

A Homeland Security Department spokesman was held Wednesday on felony charges of sexually preying on a detective posing as a 14-year-old girl through explicit online conversations.

Five million "pink slips" have been sent to members of Congress by voters who are warning them to abandon Washington's "charge-it-and-spend-it" programs, new energy taxes and proposed health care plan, according to the conservative WorldNetDaily Web site .

Here in New York, the Obama Administration's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other Al Qaeda terrorists in the civilian justice system in downtown Manhattan has garnered plenty of well-earned criticism, including from New York's leading anti-terrorism experts like Rudy Giuliani, Michael Mukasey and Andrew McCarthy , and Long Island ...

Self-proclaimed September 11th mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will come to New York to face trial for the murders of nearly 3,000 civilians, the Justice Department announced Friday.

Forty per cent of New Yorkers believe the trial of accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed makes an attack on the city more likely, according to a new poll, while security experts say it is already the top target in America.

Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, an Obama administration official said Friday.

The self-confessed mastermind of the September 11 terror attacks and four alleged co-conspirators are to be moved from Guantnamo Bay and tried in a civilian court in New York.

Published: Monday, November 16, 2009 at 4:01 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 16, 2009 at 2:07 a.m. Re-canvassed votes in upstate New York's 23rd Congressional District foreshadow the second coming of third-party candidate Doug Hoffman.

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