Fear of terrorist attack over KSM trial in NYC - admin looks to change of venue

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Will be a concern wherever they try him. Of course there will be those who whine that KSM is innocent because the gov't was behind 9-11...

Administration appears to drop plans to try alleged Sept. 11 conspirators in N.Y.

By Peter Finn, Carrie Johnson and Anne E. Kornblut
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 29, 2010; 3:43 PM

The Obama administration appears to have abandoned plans to put Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and four co-conspirators on trial in Lower Manhattan, according to administration sources.

"It seems less and less likely" that the trial will take place in New York, according to a senior administration official.

The administration was facing a surge of political opposition to hosting the trial in New York. That opposition crystallized in recent days when New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, an early supporter of holding the trial in the city, said the security and financial costs were too great.

In a letter to the president Friday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairman of the Intelligence Committee, said a New York trial heightens the risk of a terrorist attack.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/29/AR2010012903213.html