Sept. 11 trials

Military Trials for 9/11 Terror Suspects Backed by Big Majority

A substantial majority of voters oppose the Obama administration's insistence on trying 9/11 terror suspects in civilian rather than military courts and an even higher percentage believe that the man trained by al-Qaeda to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day should be charged as an enemy combatant rather than being a defendant in a criminal court, according to a Quinnipiac University poll conducted Feb. 2-8. Fifty-nine percent say that the Sept. 11 suspects should be tried in military courts while 35 percent agree with the decision to try them in civilian courts, with 6 percent ...

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