BY Oren Yaniv DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Originally Published:Monday, November 16th 2009, 1:02 PM Updated: Monday, November 16th 2009, 1:16 PM
Gov. Paterson on Monday joined the chorus of critics questioning the government's plan to try Kalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other accused 9/11 terrorists in New York.
"This is not a decision that I would have made," the governor said when asked about the upcoming federal trial of KSM and his four underlings.
"Our country was attacked on its own soil on Sept. 11, 2001, and New York was very much the epicenter of that attack," Paterson said after an appearance at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new CUNY campus in East Harlem.
"Over 2,700 lives were lost," he went on. "It's very painful; we're still having trouble getting over it. We still haven't been able to rebuild that site, and having those terrorists tried so close to the attack is going to be an encumbrance on all of New Yorkers."
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