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Key presidential advisors want to abandon plans to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and others in federal court and instead move the proceedings to a military commission.

Key presidential advisors are pushing to move the trial of the accused mastermind of the Sept.

Responding to backlash, president to help select location of Khalid Sheik Mohammed proceedings.

Accused Sept. 11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be tried and convicted and is likely to be executed, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Sunday.

A letter and a speech may have doomed plans to bring the Sept. 11 terror trial to New York....

Officials say the Obama administration is considering moving the trial of the accused 9/11 mastermind out of lower Manhattan.

At least one -- and possibly all five -- of the detainees with alleged ties to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, will plead not guilty in a "justification defense," arguing the attacks were responses to American foreign policy, according to a lawyer who met with one of the defendants.

The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.

The Obama administration on Wednesday defended plans to try the self-professed mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks in criminal courts despite harsh criticism from Republicans who say the trials are too risky.

Forty percent of New Yorkers believe the trial of accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed makes an attack on the city more likely, according to a new poll, while security experts say it is already the top target in America.