Backlash may move 9/11 terror trial from Manhattan (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Fri, 01/29/2010 - 8:32pm

FILE - In this May 21, 2009 photo shows the the Unites States Courthouse in White Plains, N.Y.<br /><br />The courthouse is a possible alternative to lower Manhattan for the Sept. 11 terrorist trial. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Pressured by a growing clamor from New York, the Obama administration appears likely to move the trial of Sept. 11 terror suspects away from Manhattan, where it had been scheduled to take place just blocks from the site of the twin towers attack.

The city's top police official says he thinks the trial won't take place anywhere in the city.




 

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