Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• Holder: 9/11 suspects to face military tribunals (AP)
• Unsealed NY indictment reveals case against 5 men (AP)
• Romney welcomes switch to military terror trial (AP)
• Sept. 11 suspects to be tried at Guantanamo Bay (Reuters)
• Supreme Court rejects Guantánamo detainees' appeals for better protections (The Christian Science Monitor)
• NYC mayor: Military trial appropriate in 9/11 case (AP)
• U.S. drops Sept. 11 indictment in New York (Reuters)
• Argentina: Terror investigations will continue (AP)
• Trial opens in deadly ground zero tower fire (AP)

Holder: 9/11 suspects to face military tribunals (AP) Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:02 PM PDT AP - Yielding to political opposition, the Obama administration gave up Monday on trying avowed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged henchmen in civilian federal court in New York and will prosecute them instead before military commissions.

Unsealed NY indictment reveals case against 5 men (AP) Posted: 04 Apr 2011 04:32 PM PDT AP - The details of the criminal charges against the self-professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four other defendants became moot for a civilian jury when they were finally made public Monday, just as Attorney General Eric Holder was announcing the men will be prosecuted at a military tribunal instead of in a courthouse just blocks from the World Trade Center site.

Romney welcomes switch to military terror trial (AP) Posted: 04 Apr 2011 04:07 PM PDT AP - Likely Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney is praising the Obama administration's decision to scrap plans for a civilian trial of Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Sept. 11 suspects to be tried at Guantanamo Bay (Reuters) Posted: 04 Apr 2011 03:57 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama yielded to political opposition on Monday, agreeing to try the self-professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks in a military tribunal at Guantanamo and not in a civilian court as he had promised.

Supreme Court rejects Guantánamo detainees' appeals for better protections (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 04 Apr 2011 01:32 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The US Supreme Court refused on Monday to take up three cases examining whether the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has struck the proper balance while deciding whether terror suspects held at Guantánamo Bay are being lawfully detained or must be released.

NYC mayor: Military trial appropriate in 9/11 case (AP) Posted: 04 Apr 2011 11:16 AM PDT AP - Mayor Michael Bloomberg says a military commission is a "more appropriate" choice than a civilian trial for avowed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (HAH'-leed shayk moh-HAH'-med).

U.S. drops Sept. 11 indictment in New York (Reuters) Posted: 04 Apr 2011 11:01 AM PDT Reuters - A federal judge in New York granted the Obama administration's request to dismiss a previously secret indictment against five accused plotters in the September 11, 2001 attacks, the Justice Department said on Monday.

Argentina: Terror investigations will continue (AP) Posted: 04 Apr 2011 10:05 AM PDT AP - Argentina's foreign minister has denied a reported offer by his government to stop investigating two deadly bombings against Jewish centers in the 1990s in return for improved trade ties with Iran.

Trial opens in deadly ground zero tower fire (AP) Posted: 04 Apr 2011 04:41 PM PDT AP - A blaze that killed two firefighters in a condemned ground zero skyscraper was fueled by recklessness and fanned by greed, a prosecutor said Monday as three construction-company supervisors went on trial on manslaughter charges.

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