Carl Rosenberg

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announces that the self-described mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, and four other Guantanamo detainees accused in the plot will be tried in federal court in New York during a news conference at the Department of Justice November 13, 2009 in Washington, DC. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT)

Despite controversy, 9-11 trials move ahead

MIAMI — Confessed terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other alleged 9-11 plotters will face a federal trial in New York City, Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday in an announcement that left intact the war court at Guantanamo. Charges against the alleged al-Qaida kingpin have not yet been filed in Manhattan, N.Y, the scene of the attack on the World Trade Center. But the decision to bring to civilian court the mass murder case of nearly 3,000 people on Sept.