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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and four others are accused of criminal justice in the attacks in New York are brought, the Attorney General Eric Holder to give the decision announced Friday.The later described in the proximity of people file is part of a broader announcement recorded on treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay prosecution to be expected. This is the first series of decisions before a Monday deadline on how to deal with more than 200 prisoners remaining at the facility, the president Barack Obama closed.Also expected in the announcement on Friday will be ordered plans for a military court to hold Abd al-Rahim al-Naschiri, suspected of being behind the 2000 explosion of the USS Cole.

Mr. Mohammed's trial in New York was widely expected since the Obama administration announced a preference to hold criminal trials, instead of military commissions for terror suspects held at Guantanamo. New York's Manhattan U.S. attorney competed with the district in northern Virginia, home to the Pentagon, to prosecute the 9/11 accused and senior al Qaeda leader. A team of prosecutors from both districts will handle the government's case, people familiar with the matter said. Formal charges aren't expected to be announced for another few weeks. Mr. Mohammed has claimed authorship of the attacks, but he has also accused U.S. interrogators of torturing him. U.S. officials have acknowledged the use of harsh tactics, including water boarding, a technique intended to simulate drowning, which Mr. Obama and other government officials have called torture.