View from Guantanamo: Families of 9/11 Victims Frustrated By Pace of Trials

Brigid Bergin
WNYC News
January 28, 2013

A new set of pre-trial motions for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the four other men accused of plotting the September 11 terror attacks starts Monday. The five are being tried before a military commission at Guantanamo Bay.

In January 2009, Retired Deputy New York City Fire Chief Jim Riches attended the proceedings. He was one of about a dozen family members picked from a lottery to see the trial of alleged mastermind of the attacks that killed his son and almost 3,000 others.

[...] What followed was legal and political haggling, including a heated debate over whether to bring the accused terrorists to New York City to face federal trial in civilian court.

[...] “You know, I’m not saying take the guy out and string up and hang ‘em. You know, let’s hear the process, let’s get it going,” he said. “But 10 years later, we’re still at square one.”

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This article was posted: Monday, January 28, 2013 at 12:13 pm

Tags: 9/11

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