Terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), credited with being instrumental in al Qaeda carrying out the 9/11 attacks, will be tried along with other high-level terrorists by a military commission, the Defense Department announced today. The arraignment will take place “at [the] Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within 30 days of service of the referred charges upon them,” according to a press release from the Department of Defense.
This means that KSM will not be tried in New York City as the Obama administration initially planned. The Obama administration made the first announcement in November 2009 to use the same location as the attack as the site of the trial, but backed down under pressure not to bring the 9/11 mastermind back to New York City.
