Attorney General Eric Holder announced on Friday that five Guantanamo Bay detainees including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, will be prosecuted in a Manhattan federal courtroom - less than a mile from where hijackers destroyed the World Trade Center, killing 2,752 people.
The announcement sparked an immediate debate - opponents of having a federal trial in New York as opposed to a military tribunal say it will only cause the city to be even more of a target for future terror attacks. Others say it is fitting to have the trial in the city that was the scene of mass destruction.
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