Peter Finn, Carrie Johnson and Anne E. Kornblut
The Washington Post
January 29, 2010
[efoods]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.
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