国际英语新闻：Obama advisers to propose military trials for 9/11 suspects

WASHINGTON, March 5 (Xinhua) -- White House advisers are prepared to recommend the president to try alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed in a military tribunal instead of a civilian court, Washington Post reported on Friday.

President Barrack Obama's advisers are under increasing pressure from both parties of Congress on where and how to prosecute 9/11 suspects, the report quoted unnamed official sources as saying.

Attorney General Eric Holder announced last November that Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his four co-conspirators were to be transferred from U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to New York City for trials in a civilian federal court.

Obama has favored trying some terrorism suspects in civilian courts as a symbol of commitment to the rule of law, but critics contended that Mohammed could use the trial to air his political views and New Yorkers expressed their worries about security risks in a courthouse just blocks from the site of the World Trade Center attacks.

Mohammed stands accused of masterminding the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington that took nearly 3,000 lives, sparked wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and prompted former President George W. Bush's war on terror. The alleged architect of terror was captured in Pakistan in 2003.