Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be brought to justice: US

Khalid Sheikh,46,was captured in Rawalpindi in Pakistan on March 1,2003,by the ISI,possibly in a joint action with agents of the American Diplomatic Security Service,and has been in US custody since that time.

The 9/11 Commission Report alleges that Khalid,a Kuwaiti national,was “the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks.”

He is also alleged to have confessed to a role in many of the terrorist plots over the last 20 years,including the World Trade Center 1993 bombings,the Operation Bojinka plot,an aborted 2002 attack on the US Bank Tower in Los Angeles,the Bali nightclub bombings,the failed bombing of American Airlines Flight 63 and the murder of Daniel Pearl.

“Khalid Sheikh Mohammed being brought to justice is most assuredly in our national security interest,” he said.

“There have been discussions with him and there have been discussions with staff here and those on Capitol Hill and elsewhere to move this forward,” Gibbs said.

Over the weekend,US Attorney General Eric Holder said the Obama Administration has not yet determined so far on the venue of the trial of the 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh.

“Well,no decision has been made yet as to exactly where the trial is going to occur. What we want to do is to hold accountable,as effectively as we can,the people who are responsible for what happened on September the 11th,” Holder told the CBS’s Face the Nation in an interview.

“We’ve had to deal with a variety of things… We’re trying to work our way through that. And as soon as we can,we will make a decision as to where that trial will occur,” he said.

Holder had initially pushed for New York trial five co-plotters suspects including mastermind Khalid Sheikh,but was opposed by several lawmakers and the New York Mayor.

“We are still in the process of considering that as well. The recommendation I made was that it should be done in a civilian court,” he said and acknowledged that justice has been denied too long.

“We are going to have to work with Congress in order,I think,ultimately,to bring this case to trial. And I think that,given the magnitude of what happened on September the 11th and the need to bring justice and closure to this,that people in Congress need to work with us in the executive branch to come up with a way in which we can put these people on trial,” Holder said.