Self proclaimed Mastermind of the September 11 terror attack, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four other terrorist, held at the Guantanamo Bay Detention facility, are heading for New York City.  The five men are being arraigned at a federal civilian courthouse in NYC, just blocks from the site of the 2001 terror attack.

Attorney General Eric Holder said that the defendants should be tried in the area where the crime took place.  The New York courthouse sit by the site where two jet liners crashed into the World Trade Center's towers; bringing them down, killing over 3,000 people.

Attorney General Holder called the events of September 11 "the deadliest terrorist attacks our nation has ever seen" and said that in the years since, "our nation has had no higher priority than bringing those who planned and plotted the attacks to justice."

Bringing such notorious suspects to U.S. soil to face trial is a key step in President Barack Obama's plan to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center.  Obama initially planned to close the detention center by Jan. 22, but the administration is no longer expected to meet that deadline.

"For over 200 years our nation has relied upon a faithful adherence to the rule of law," Holder told a news conference at the Justice Department.  "Once again, we will ask our legal system in two venues to answer that call."

The plan that Holder outlined Friday is a major test of Obama's overall approach to terrorism.  If the case suffers legal setbacks, the administration will face second-guessing from those who never wanted it in a civilian courtroom.  And if lawmakers get upset about terrorists being brought to their home regions, they may fight back against other parts of Obama's agenda.

Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) called bringing Mohammed to New York "an unnecessary risk" that could result in the disclosure of classified information.  Kyl maintained the trial of Omar Abdel Rahman, the so-called "blind sheik" who was tried for a plot against some two-dozen New York City landmarks, caused "valuable information about U.S. intelligence sources and methods" to be revealed to the al-Qaida terrorist network.