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US President Barack Obama said Sunday in an interview with CBS News that he hasn't ruled out a civilian trial in New York City for accused 9/11 co-conspirator Khalid Sheikh Mohammed . However, Obama stressed that...

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said during an interview Sunday on CNN's State of the Union that upon being tried and convicted, alleged 9/11 conspirator Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would likely be executed....

The White House is considering moving the trials of alleged 9/11 conspirator Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other high-profile terror suspects out of New York City, a senior official said Friday. Although the deputy press secretary reaffirmed...

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday cited costs and potential disruptions to the lives of New Yorkers in urging the federal government not to try alleged 9/11 conspirator Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and...

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says the clear message of the recent 125-page majority opinion from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upholding the convictions of civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart...

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn (D) and US Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) expressed support Sunday for the Obama administration's proposal to move Guantanamo Bay detainees to a facility in Northwestern Illinois. The Obama...

US Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday announced that the government will pursue federal charges against five men accused of conspiring to commit the 9/11 terrorist attacks . Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi...

The Obama administration will not push Congress for legislation to authorize the indefinite detention of terror suspects, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. Instead, administration officials said they will rely on the authority granted through two resolutions passed in...

A US military judge on Monday granted the government's request for a 60-day continuance in the trial of five Guantanamo Bay detainees accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks . Judge Stephen Henley granted...

A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia has granted lawyers for another Guantanamo Bay detainee permission to question Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , the self-proclaimed architect...