The Justice Department is expected to announce today that esteemed N.C. A&T grad Khalid Shaikh Mohammed will be tried in federal court in New York, while accused USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri will be tried before a military tribunal. It will be interesting to watch the administration explain the distinction in the way each terrorist is brought to justice.
The NYT acknowledges closing Guantanamo “has proven more difficult than his team anticipated” for the Obama administration. That’s putting it lightly, based on this story I saw buried deep inside yesterday’s N&R:
President Barack Obama’s order to close the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, military prison by Jan. 22 was followed by a series of mistakes and missteps by his administration that will delay the prison’s closing for months, according to a report from a policy organization with close ties to the White House.
Those mistakes, which ranged from initially having too few people on board for the workload to misreading Congress, put the timetable months behind schedule and will push the prison’s closure well beyond the January deadline.
Gosh, we would’ve never imagined this back in January, would we?
