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KSM Out of NYC?

By Jonathan H. Adler

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It appears that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed might not get tried in New York City after all. The N.Y. Daily News reports:

The White House ordered the Justice Department on Thursday night to consider other places to try the 9/11 terror suspects after a wave of opposition to holding the trial in lower Manhattan.

The dramatic turnabout came hours after Mayor Bloomberg said he would ?prefer that they did it elsewhere? and then spoke to Attorney General Eric Holder.

?It would be an inconvenience at the least, and probably that?s too mild a word for people that live in the neighborhood and businesses in the neighborhood,? Bloomberg told reporters.

?There are places that would be less expensive for the taxpayers and less disruptive for New York City.?

State and city leaders have increasingly railed against a plan to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in Manhattan federal court since Holder proposed it last month.

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Full post as published by The Volokh Conspiracy on January 29, 2010 (boomark / email).