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From: Bridge Player	4/4/2011 1:19:01 PM
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Attorney General Eric Holder today will announce that self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad will be tried in a military commission, the CBS News Investigative Unit has learned. A source says the commission will be held at the Guantanamo Bay prison. Holder is expected to announce the decision in a news conference today at 2 p.m. Trying Mohammed in a civilian court and closing the Guantanamo prison were once some of the Obama administration's top priorities, but political realities have hamstrung both goals. In November 2009, Holder announced that Mohammed and four other alleged Sept. 11 plotters would be tried in New York City, but he scrapped that plan in the wake of public consternation. Republicans and some others in Washington said the decision compromised national security, while a CBS News poll at the time showed that most Americans thought such suspects should be tried in a closed military court. Another complete 180. Actually, IMO BO doesn't really give a cr*p where, or even if, KSM or any of the other bad guys get tried for the 9/11 crimes. The reversal is nothing but simply a sop to public opinion, another little peg in his reelection campaign.

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