Attorney General Eric H. holder Jr. on Monday announced that he military prosecutors in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, file war crimes charges against the five prisoners 11 case has deleted in Sept.
Mr holder had decided in November to postpone the case in a federal civilian court in New York City, but this plan in the midst of a political backlash left the White House.
The shift was to by stiff Congressional opposition to Guantanamo prisoners in the United States and by other recent steps the way for new Tribunal studies indicated.
Is it a significant moment of surrender in largely frustrated Obama overhead to dismantle counterterrorism architecture of former President George W. Bush left marked. President Obama, in one of his first initiatives, announced its intention to close the Guantánamo prison, in a year, a target that he not to meet.
Mr holder said Monday that he that more sense was 11 attacks, based on facts and evidence for the case, Mr Mohammed, as the mastermind behind the Sept by his decision, and try the four others in a Federal Court. He criticized restrictions by Congress last year that prisoners on home soil, also for studies transfer prohibited the military from using their resources.
"We have to face a simple truth: these restrictions are unlikely in the immediate future to be lifted" Groupe holder, said. "And we can not simply a study on the delayed longer, allow for the victims of the 9 / 11 attacks or their families, who have been waiting for almost a decade for justice."
While Mr. holder has presented his original decision, as closely on legal tactics - how avoid the prospect of a lengthy appeal to the commissions system itself - it was both celebrated and condemned for ideological reasons.
On Monday, the decision to do that think otherwise hold a military trial in the attack on the Administration praised several Republicans.
"It is regrettable that the Obama more than two years it took management, find out what the majority of Americans already know: the 9 / 11 conspirator Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is no common criminal, he is a war criminal,", said Representative Lamar Smith, who is the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Republican Texas.
But group, the Lord holder's original plan when help restore the role of the traditional criminal justice system praised had reacted with frustration on Monday. Some criticized Mr Obama, the re-election bid on Monday announced, and Groupe singled out other holder.
"The Attorney General Flip-flop wreak havoc for rule of law,", said Anthony D. Romero, executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Military prosecutors are expected to seek the death penalty, although she has said not Monday, whether she would do. Mr Mohammed had originally in the Tribunal system late in the Bush administration with Walid Muhammad Salih bin Attash, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, accused Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi.
In December 2008, the defendant showed that they were inclined, guilty without a full trial. But in one of his first steps after taking office, Mr Obama all stopped commissions on the road to Guantanamo while the prisoner policies which he had inherited read.
The Administration finally came up with a hybrid approach under which prisoners in a civil court would be pursued, as far as possible and in a revised system where not the Commission. Again others as too dangerous but difficult in both systems to track release would be for an indefinite period without trial.
Mr Obama accused Groupe holder decide to go the prisoners to any system would to his original decision about a Sept. 11 trial in New York. It would be Mr holder signature policy move, then become his bane.
In the midst of the wave of fear, that the attempted followed attack on a Detroit-bound airliner the next month, New York City shied away from officials the prospect of what it as potentially very costly and disruptive security arrangements represented.
The White House decided by early 2010. On Monday, New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his Police Commissioner, Ray Kelly, both said approving the decision to keep the trial in Guantanamo.
In practice, it was never clear that the security so expensive and cumbersome as warned officials of the town; an another high-profile Guantanamo detainee, Ahmed Khalfan nearly without incident in a courtroom in New York last year tried to plotting Al Qaeda 1998 Embassy attacks in Africa.
Mr nearly case landed yet, stiffening resistance to civil trials, because a jury acquitted him under which more than 280 accusation. Although he sentenced to life in prison convicted are still on a count, critics pointed out the result as a sign that civil studies were too uncertain.
The Justice Department on Monday announced also that a federal grand in December 2009 had accused jury in New York five prisoners under seal. It published the 81-page indictment - almost half of which was that the attacks from the name of the 2,976 people, died - together with a judicial order unsealing and close.
Prosecutors had asked, sealing on the grounds that some of the accused "potentially admissible evidence" in the cells had, and a public notice of the charges could be a judge of the indictment to destroy them, a court showed document. It provided no further details.
Mr press holder remains in the entire 2010 internally the study in a civil court, keep federal even as elected officials in all three countries where the attacks took place against the attempt of the suspects are. On Monday, Mr holder announced that he had the case at the prison in Otisville - a rural institution focused on track about two hours Northwest of the town.
An official familiar with the discussions the Administration has moved beyond the proposal or said consulted with local officials or Congress of Otisville, fearing that the dynamics of the midterm election attempts Democrats Republicans block it inviting to join would ask. It turned out, have a cross-party majority in the legislature effectively after the election anyway.
Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, against the holding of the process are welcomed everywhere in the State of New York, the Administration decision Monday.
He said "Certainly referred to, which will be the study in New York". "While not unexpected, this is the last nail in the coffin this wrong-headed idea." "I have always said that the perpetrators of this horrible crime should receive the ultimate penalty, and I believe that this proposal by the Administration, which has happened can make."
Benjamin Weiser contributed reporting from New York.
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