Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Trial
AP Photo | By MARGOT WILLIAMS | Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is the self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11th attacks, a man who called himself a "jackal" and who explained away the 3,000 victims of that day by saying "the language of war is victims." At least that is what he has told American interrogators, and what he said at a closed hearing in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, after being held in secret prisons for close to four years.
On Dec. 8, 2008, Mr. Mohammed, along with four co-defendants, sent a note to a military judge at Guantánamo asking to confess and to plead guilty. On Nov. 13, 2009, a federal official said that Mr. Mohammed and four other men would be tried in New York City for the Sept. 11th attacks.
>>>>> more The pressure is growing on the Obama administration to take its trial of Sept. 11 terror suspects out of Manhattan. And New York Gov. David Paterson says he's "elated'' that concerns about the trial are being considered. (Jan. 29)
