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Hundreds of protestors rallied against the plan to give the alleged mastermind of 9/11 and four others a civilian trial in New York City.
“They are war criminals,” one of the speakers,firefighter and US marines veteran Peter Regan,said to cheers. “The terrorists should be tried in a military court.”
The crowd huddled under umbrellas in chilly rain outside New York’s federal courthouse where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 suspects are due to be tried after being transferred from the controversial US prison at Guantanamo Bay,Cuba.
The courthouse is a few blocks from Ground Zero,site of the former World Trade Centre,which was destroyed on September 11,2001 when hijacked airplanes slammed into the Twin Towers and into the Pentagon outside Washington,killing nearly 3,000 people.
