Nothing ever happens in Washington one time. Once the precedent is set, the door is open, there is no closing or turning back. That is once again the case as we find Federal prosecutors are considering sending a Guantanamo Bay detainee Majid Khan to face trial in New York. Khan is considered a high-value prisoner by the U.S. government at the detention center in Cuba. The Justice Department is weighing whether to put him on trial in federal court in Brooklyn. The door is open as the prisoners as moving to Illinois and Attorney General Eric Holder decided that 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four accused henchmen will be tried in federal court in lower Manhattan. They do not call it the big apple for nothing they would be hosting two major terrorism trials in separate locations. A terrorism trial in Brooklyn could also expand the security demands on federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, if the court schedules did overlap. This is fine except they have not come up with any charges Khan could face in a courtroom. He has been involved with or associated with three terror plots including alleged plot to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge, wearing an explosive vest on a suicide mission to kill Pakistan’s president, Pervez Musharraf and he was the bagman for a bomb attack on a J.W. Marriott hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia. Will it be much longer before all 210 Guantanamo Bay detainees are tried in a US courtroom and once those gates are open there is no chance of 100% conviction rate.
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