9/11 trial won't likely be in New York City

NEW YORK — The New York Times is reporting that the Obama administration has given up its plan to try the Sept. 11 plotters in Lower Manhattan. The decision came in response to near-unanimous pressure from New York officials and business leaders to move the terrorism trial elsewhere, the paper's Web site states..

“It could cost $1 billion. It's absolutely crazy,” Julie Menin, chairwoman of Community Board 1 in Lower Manhattan, told the Times.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced plans in November to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in New York.

The reversal seemed to come suddenly this week, after Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg abandoned his strong support for the plan and said the cost and disruption would be too great, the Times reports.

But resistance had been gathering steam for weeks among New Yorkers, the report states.

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