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Shaikh mohammed will face a military commission at guantanamo bay instead of being tried in a u.s. civilian court. his four co-conspirators will also be tried at the detention facility in cuba. the decision is a reversal for the obama administration which wanted the alleged terrorists to have federal civilian trials. attorney general eric holder has promised to seek the death penalty. nasa says it is pushing back the launch of the shuttle "endeavour" by ten days. mark kelly, congresswoman gabrielle giffords' husband, and his crew are now set to launch on april 29th. the delay is because of a...

For the victims of these heinous attacks and for their families, that justice is long overdue, and it must not be delayed any longer. since i made the decision to prosecute the alleged 9/11 conspirators the effectiveness of the federal courts and the thousands of prosecutors, judges, law enforcement officers and defense attorneys who work in them have been subjected to a number of unfair and often unfounded criticisms. too many people, many of whom should know better, and many of whom certainly do know better, have expressed doubts about our time-honored and time-tested system is of justice. t...

Prosecutors from the department of justice and the department of defense, and after thoroughly studying the case, it became clear to me that the best venue for prosecution was in federal court. let me be clear. i stand by that decision today. as the indictment unsealed today reveals, we were prepared to bring a powerful case against khalid shaikh mohammed and his four co-conspirators and one of the most well researched and documented cases i have ever seen in my decades of experience as a prosecutor. we had carefully evaluated the evidence and concluded that we could prove the defendant's guil...

Hear the case of the mastermind of 9/111 khalid shaikh mohammed. he and four other defendants will be tried at guantanamo bay, and you remember that this is the trial that the obama administration wanted held in manhattan and a congressional review led to a decision by the justice department. and now we are joined by the gitmo correspondent for the "miami herald." carol, let me get your reaction to this. >> reporter: well, i didn't hear you, but eric holder will be moving the trial back to guantanamo resuming a process started in the bush administration. in apparent remarks, the attorney gener...

In the united states as i seriously explored in the last year, i am confident that the justice system could have performed with the same distinction that has been its hallmark for over 200 years. now, unfortunately, since i made that decision, members of congress have intervened and imposed restrictions blocking the administration from bringing any guantanamo detainees to trial in the united states, regardless of the venue. as the president has said, those unwise and unwarranted restrictions undermine our counterterrorism efforts and could harm our national security. decisions about who, where...