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Friday, November 13, 2009
Five Guantanamo Bay detainees with alleged ties to the 9/11 conspiracy, including accused mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be transferred to New York to go on trial in civilian court, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Friday.Mohammed, Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, Walid bin Attash, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi will all be transferred to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York -- a short distance from the World Trade Center towers that were destroyed in the September 11 attacks.He said he expected all five to be tried together and for prosecutors to seek the death penalty. The trial would be open to the public, although some portions that deal with classified information may be closedThe CIA has also admitted using waterboarding on al-Nashiri, the first person charged in the United States for the 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen that killed 17 U.S. sailors.The alleged 9/11 conspirators are among 215 men held by the U.S. military at the Guantanamo prison camp. The Obama administration has vowed to close the detention facility but acknowledges it is unlikely to happen by its self-imposed January 22, 2010, deadline.Friday, September 11, 2009
"Every year on this day, we are all New Yorkers." obama's message
Again the bells tolled. Again the bagpipers played. Again the victims' names were read.
"Eight years we have come together to commemorate this anniversary," Mayor Bloomberg said. "It is the sacred duty of the living to carry with us the memories of those who were lost."
And then the volunteers who toiled in the pit to rescue the living and salvage the dead - joined by grieving relatives - began reading, in alphabetical order, the names of the more than 2,700 victims of Osama Bin Laden's madness.
The roll call of the dead grew by one this year - Leon Hayward, who died last year of lung disease and lymphoma caused the toxic dust cloud that enveloped him after the towers collapsed.
The mourners bowed their heads when the bells tolled at nearby Trinity Church and fell into the first of three moments of silence.
