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Article: Terrorism Trials May Be at New Va. Court; Security May Favor Newport News Over Alexandria
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- August 13, 2009
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A new, high-security courthouse in Newport News, Va., could be
the site of terrorism trials for some Guantanamo Bay inmates,
including the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks, if the Obama administration sends cases into the
federal courts, law enforcement sources said.
Prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia are competing
with the Manhattan U.S. attorney for the opportunity to prosecute
high-profile cases, including those of Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his
co-conspirators, the sources said. Such cases have traditionally
been brought in New York or at the federal courthouse in Alexandria,
where Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui and other terrorism ...