After widespread public outrage over potential civilian trials in New York City for 9/11 conspirators–objections which most recently included Mayor Michael Bloomberg–the White House is pulling the plug on the NYC trials. MSNBC has confirmed, along with the NYTimes and Washington Post getting the scoop:

“New York is out,” one administration official told the [Washington] Post, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the decision had not yet been officially announced. “We’re considering other options.”

The Justice Department is drawing up plans for possible alternate locations to try Mohammed and four alleged accomplices, two administration officials told The Associated Press earlier Friday.

Though the officials wouldn’t discuss locations under consideration, others have suggested Governors Island, a former military base in New York Harbor that now welcomes summertime picnickers and bike riders; the U.S. Military Academy at West Point or Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, N.Y…

Mayor Nicholas Valentine of the small upstate city of Newburgh has offered his community as a possible location. The city has a new state-of-the-art courthouse, he said, and is less than a 90-minute commute from Manhattan. The air base there has been used in the past to fly in terror suspects facing trial in the district.

source: Townhall article by Meredith Jessup…

Comment by American Grand Jury:

These loonie liberals that want to try terriorists (who commit “acts of war” against our country) in American Civil courts are NUTS.. the terrorists belong in GITMO and should be tried in a military court, sentenced and hanged if found guilty. That is the ONLY justice that the Muslim Jihad will understand. You don’t give Jihadists miranda rights. Eric Holder and Barack Obama are simply committing treason by aiding and abetting the enemy.

This entire exercise of mental masturbation by the Obama administration is nothing more than a ploy to try and put George Bush on trial by sensationalizing a defense for the 9/11 “killer” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. No good could ever come out of it other than to further weaken our national security. Kahlid has already pleaded guilty in a military hearing. The majority of people in this country want nothing to do with such a display of weakness by Holder and Obama.