Officials respond to prospect of 9/11 trial in Elm City
By Colin Ross and Esther Zuckerman
Staff Reporter, Staff Reporter
The Yale Daily News
Published Wednesday, February 3, 2010
A report that alleged 9/11-mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed could be tried in New Haven has sparked a firestorm of opinions from city and state leaders.
After federal officials announced last week that Mohammed’s trial would not occur in New York, the New Haven federal courthouse has surfaced as one of the sites being considered by the U.S. Department of Justice. In response, three New Haven aldermen on Tuesday questioned whether the city would be able to handle such a high-profile case.
City Hall spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga said in a statement Tuesday that the federal...
#1 By townie 4:52a.m. on February 3, 2010
It was a mistake for Mike Jones to weigh in on this issue. As an alderman he represents New Haven residents and this is a far bigger issue that should be opined about by someone who won't be here long enough to bear its effects.
#2 By NEVER seen? 5:19a.m. on February 3, 2010
"Like the city has NEVER seen?" What about the Black Panthers of the 1970's?
Where is William Sloane Coffin when we need him? Doonesbury will have a field day.
PK
#3 By PS to NEVER seen 5:24a.m. on February 3, 2010
PS
Between Westerfeld and this you might as well paint a giant bulls-eye on New Haven (my tired old birthplace).
PK
M.Div.'80
#4 By Recent Alum 5:37a.m. on February 3, 2010
Let's just hope that the jury will not be comprised of Yale Law School faculty members.
#5 By No Way 10:58a.m. on February 3, 2010
Yale is on Iran's enemy list. Now it will on al qaeda's list. Add to that the amount of murders and other brutal crimes on campus that have received world wide attention recently.
#6 By Concerned Parent 11:01a.m. on February 3, 2010
If this trial is held in New Haven, my student will transfer from Yale post haste, and prospective students will avoid applying..............
#7 By y11 1:01p.m. on February 3, 2010
We'd better hope this is nothing like the Black Panther trials, otherwise these guys are all going to walk.
#8 By Rule of Law 3:16p.m. on February 3, 2010
This whole thing is ridiculous. KSM should be tried in New York where he murdered his innocent victims. His civilian trial will be a great opportunity to hear him spout his inane babble of hatred and show the world just how brain dead al-Qaeda's ideology truly is.
#9 By Todd 3:40p.m. on February 3, 2010
Why are we so afraid of these guys? We've had trials before that went fine. I think people are basing way too much off of movies. What do you think is going to happen? Are the terrorists going to launch some kind of rescue operation? Are they going to exact their revenge on the judicial system? Is there any precedent that leads us to believe terrorists are particularly irked by trials? From what we've seen of Islamic terrorism in America, terrorists want to kill and scare Americans, but as people who don't value their own lives, they also don't seem to care much for those of their comrades. They just want to kill; they clearly don't give a damn about their fellow terrorists. Why are we being such cowards? If we can't even have this stupid trial we're just showing how much power they have over us.
#10 By frg 3:42p.m. on February 3, 2010
With the amount of extra security this will bring to the downtown area, New Haven will be safer than it has in decades. If not, maybe we can have the trial in PK's house since he apparently has an opinion on everything. Other than that, no need to run around hysterically.
#11 By Been around awhile 4:14p.m. on February 3, 2010
If we can try Black Panthers and New York mafiosi here, why not Al Qaeda?
#12 By Native 6:50p.m. on February 3, 2010
frg:
You ARE having it in my house; I was born there. My parents kept a home there until 1992. I will be buied there.
It has become a tired city housing a tired university.
As Duncan says of Scotland in Macbeth: "It is not our mother but our grave."
Even before the Wseterfeld controversy, even before this obviously money-motivated judicial opportunity, these words of Shakespeare have all too sadly described the violence in New Haven, and even more sadly, Yale---(with three student murders in the last 25 years alone).
I wouldn't live there again if you paid me.
PK
M.Div. '80
#17 By Salt those wounds February 6, 2010
Let's spread the aggravation around. Westerfeld was enough salt in wounds publicly declared as having been opened.
New Haven doesn't have to do double duty.
Send him to Obama's home: Maui. The terrorists won't have to travel so far.
It will make mainland air travel safer.
PK
M. Div'80
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