A member of the Senate Armed Services Committee is questioning President Barack Obama's decision to try the confessed 9/11 terror mastermind in civilian court in New York City.
When Attorney General Eric Holder announced last week that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be tried in a courthouse just blocks from where the World Trade Center stood, a firestorm ensued. Family members of some of the victims of the 9/11 attacks voiced outrage over the decision to take the self-proclaimed mastermind of the attacks to New York and try him in a federal civilian court. (See related article) The administration defends Obama's decision as the president has actually guaranteed that the terror mastermind would be convicted and executed. However, Senator Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi) is concerned about the safety of those participating in the trial. "Think of what jeopardy it puts the court officials [and jurors] in...," Wicker notes. "How would you like to be chosen a juror in a terrorist trial in civilian court and have to be watching over your shoulder for the rest of your life for a terrorist to come get you? It just doesn't make any sense, [and] the people are against it." The Mississippi lawmaker is also concerned that the president does not seem to trust General Stanley McChrystal (USA) when comes to the question of troop levels in Afghanistan. "We know what the general's recommendation is. We have to assume that he's made this based on the best military information he has, the best intelligence and his decades of military experience and know-how," contends Wicker. "The president, I think for political reasons to satisfy his left-wing base, will not allow what the general says is necessary." Wicker admits he is amazed by the Obama administration's lack of resolve overseas and its shortage of insight into what the president is doing domestically.
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