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Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to bring confessed 9/11 ringleader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, or KSM, to trial in a lower-Manhattan federal court has turned into a political nightmare for the Obama Administration. Republicans are capitalizing on broad popular opposition to allowing terrorist suspects held at Guantánamo to have their day in civilian courts, painting Democrats as soft on al-Qaeda. Democratic lawmakers are scrambling to distance themselves from the issue, and the Administration has been forced to change its plans...
...White House has decided to move the trial out of Manhattan, and Administration officials speaking on condition of anonymity tell TIME that alternative options are being considered, including other locations in the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of Virginia, the Middle District of Pennsylvania and a variety of military bases around the country. Officials tell TIME that the Administration is also considering making a 180-degree turn by trying KSM in a military tribunal. (See "The Accused 9/11 Plotters: What Happened to Them...
...collapse of Holder's plan to try the case in Manhattan, and bipartisan congressional opposition to a civilian trial for KSM anywhere else, has Democrats inside and outside the Administration wondering about the Attorney General's standing in the White House. Justice officials insist that Holder is working closely with the White House to fix the KSM mess. But other officials see parallels between Holder's predicament and that of Obama's former top White House lawyer, Greg Craig, who fought to implement Obama's campaign-trail positions on counterterrorism but fell out of favor when they became politically unpopular...
...story skyscraper in midtown Manhattan, registered as the 650 Fifth Avenue Company, was owned by Assa Corporation, a New York shell company, which listed its owner as Assa Company Ltd., a Jersey, Channel Islands entity. In most cases that's as far as investigators get - but here authorities were eventually able to determine that Assa was in fact entirely owned by the state-owned Bank Melli, which is banned in the U.S. for supporting Tehran's nuclear program. (See the best business deals...
Exposing this entirely legal labyrinth of ownership took years of interagency pick-and-ax work. In the end it demonstrated how nefarious activity - even as high profile as this - can go on for years, right under authorities' noses. It's also meant that tenants of the prestigious Manhattan property have been paying millions in rent to Tehran every year - $4.5 million in 2007 alone. Last November, more than 30 years after the Islamic revolution, U.S. officials moved to take over all of Alavi's U.S. properties and bank accounts, spread over five states...