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Next Stop Guantanamo?

Posted by Defend America on Saturday, January 30, 2010 10:54:18 AM

Bay what? Guantanamo eyed for 9/11 trial

By JOHN DOYLE and DAVID SEIFMAN in NY and CHARLES HURT in DC

Last Updated: 8:54 AM, January 30, 2010

Posted: 2:37 AM, January 30, 2010

The
 trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed won't be held in lower
 Manhattan and could take place in a military tribunal at Guantanamo
 Bay, sources said last night. 
 Administration officials said that no final decision had been made but
 that officials of the Department of Justice and the White House were
 working feverishly to find a venue that would be less expensive and
 less of a security risk than New York City.
 
 The back-to-the-future Gitmo option was reported yesterday by Fox News
 and was not disputed by White House officials.
 
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 Such a move would likely bring howls of protest from liberals already
 frustrated that President Obama has failed to meet his deadline for
 closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay. 
 It would also indicate that after years of attacking the Bush
 administration for its handling of the war on terror, Obama officials
 are embracing one of the most controversial aspects of it.
 
 The administration is likely considering Gitmo because Congress is
 moving to cut off funding for holding the expensive trials in civilians
 courts. 
 Rep. Peter King (R-LI) has introduced a bill that would prohibit the
 use of Justice Department funds to try Guantanamo detainees in federal
 civilian courts, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he would introduce
 a similar bill in the Senate next week. 
 The Washington Post, meanwhile, reports that wherever the terror trials
 are eventually held, it is virtually certain that they will not take
 place in New York City. 
 Police Commissioner Ray Kelly yesterday credited Mayor Bloomberg, who
 spoke out against the holding the trials in New York, with spurring the
 Obama administration to reconsider. 
 "I think the president responded to, certainly, the mayor's statement
 yesterday and community concerns, and it, quite frankly, gives us a
 little more room in the Police Department," he said.
 
 "The mayor's position is the right position, and I think the mayor was
 the reason it was moved. 
 "There was a lot of concern in the community. A lot of other political
 leaders were worried about it, but it wasn't until the mayor made the
 statement that the White House reacted. It's the right
 decision." 
 But the administration insisted that Justice officials had been
 reviewing other options well before Bloomberg changed his mind and
 voiced his opposition. 
 It was not until word leaked out that the DOJ was reconsidering that
 Bloomberg spoke up, one official said. 
 Other domestic sites mentioned for the trials include a former military
 base in New York Harbor that welcomes summertime picnickers and bike
 riders, the US Military Academy at West Point, and Stewart Air National
 Guard Base in upstate Newburgh. 
 Bloomberg said yesterday that he would not brand Obama a flip-flopper
 over his turnabout. 
 "To me, it's a sign of maturity, strength and intellect," Bloomberg
 said on WOR radio yesterday. 
 "If somebody comes up with a better idea -- if the world changes -- you
 change." 
 Gov. Paterson said he was "elated that our concerns are being
 considered by the president and the federal government."
 
 The effort to nix New York as the venue for the "terror trial of the
 century" also got a boost yesterday when Senate Intelligence Committee
 Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) urged Obama to hold the trial
 elsewhere. 
 She cited the high threat of terrorist strikes, especially for a city
 like New York. 
 "Without getting into classified details, I believe we should view the
 attempted Christmas Day plot as a continuation, not an end, of plots to
 strike the United States by al Qaeda affiliates," she wrote.
 
 "Moreover, New York City has been a high-priority target since at least
 the first World Trade Center bombing, in 1993. The trial of the most
 significant terrorist in custody would add to the threat."
 
 churt@nypost.com

The trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed won't be held in lower Manhattan and could take place in a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, sources said last night.

Administration officials said that no final decision had been made but that officials of the Department of Justice and the White House were working feverishly to find a venue that would be less expensive and less of a security risk than New York City.

The back-to-the-future Gitmo option was reported yesterday by Fox News and was not disputed by White House officials.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/bay_what_gitmo_mCRoRefbWjHgmYQFT4vvIK

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