Examiner.com - Holder Upset Over Decision on Gitmo Military Trials for Terrorists
April 5, 2011
By Jim Kouri, Law Enforcement Examiner
The 9/11 co-conspirators will be tried by a military tribunal, and prosecutors from the Department of Justice were ordered by a visibly upset Attorney General Eric Holder to assist the chief prosecutor from the Office of Military Commissions,
The fact that the 9-11 accused terrorists will now face military tribunals is
long overdue and despite the Attorney General's flawed logic, it is the proper venue to
try these accused terrorists," said Jordan Sekulow of the American Center for Law &
Justice.
This means the prosecutions of the alleged
conspirators in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City, Washington,
D.C, and Pennsylvania -- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Muhammed Salih Mubarak Bin
Attash, Ramzi Bin Al Shibh, Ali Abdul-Aziz Ali and Mustafa Ahmed Al Hawsawi - will be
referred to military prosecutors at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military installation and
detention center. . . .
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