The Khalid Sheik Mohamed trial will cost hundreds of millions (mainly for police overtime)

[Prometheus Bound]

Kelly says NYPD prepared for terror trials in city
January 20, 2010
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Tuesday New York City, with the help of federal funds, is prepared to host high-profile terror trials in its courts.

Plans for protecting the city during the pending prosecution in Manhattan federal court of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and other U.S. targets, are already in the advanced stages, Kelly said, and the city will be able to provide a high level of security.

He said the city will not know when Mohammed’s trial will begin until as little as 45 days before he is transported to the city. He said the NYPD expects to receive about $215 million from the federal government for security for the first year of his trial and $200 million for every year thereafter that the proceedings take place. “No one knows how long this trial could go. It could go several years,” he said.
http://www.yournabe.com/articles/2010/01/20/queens/queensuugrzlf01202010.txt

Cops Outline Double Security Plan for KSM Trial
Wed, Jan 20, 2010

Earlier this month, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the costs incurred in maintaining security for the high-profile trial could escalate to hundreds of millions of dollars – a far heftier price tag than was initially projected.

Bloomberg put the cost at $216 million for the first year after Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other suspects arrive in Manhattan from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. After that, the mayor said it would cost $200 million annually for as long as the men are detained in the city — mainly overtime for extra New York Police Department patrols.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly had given an initial estimate of $75 million a year but later warned it could be higher.
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/Cops-Outline-Double-Security-Plan-for-KSM-Trial-82149647.html

[exboyfil]

1. Overtime bonanza

I love it when I can get overtime in my job which is very rare. Just don't adjust your lifestyle to the extra dollars.

[aquart]

2. So?

[Prometheus Bound]

7. Perspective.

In two years the cost would be greater than the GNP of about 35 nations.

I found that a bit breathtaking for one trial. I would look for a cheaper way to provide adequate security, but the US is rich and your government has lots of money, so who cares.

[Solly Mack]

3. So what was the cost to hide them away in secret prisons and torture them...

[laughingliberal]

5. +1 nt

[howard112211]

4. This is an investment into the integrity of the legal process. I think it is money well spent.

Sure, we could say "he is muslin so he's guilty. hang em high'r" and string him up in the toolshed.

However, that would pave the way for mob-rule and anarchy (the bad kind).

[cali]

6. +1 and all that jazz.

[LLStarks]

8. It shouldn't have to cost this much. Security concerns are overblown. nt

[laststeamtrain]

9. It'll be worth every penny because the motive will be discussed (unless it's ignored).

consortiumnews.com

Shining Light on Roots of Terrorism

By Ray McGovern
November 15, 2009

Media commentary on the upcoming 9/11 trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has raised concern that state secrets may be divulged, including details about how the Bush administration used torture to extract evidence about al-Qaeda.

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Maybe so, But what the Fawning Corporate Media (or FCM) have so far neglected is the likelihood that the testimony will be so public that they will have to break their studied silence about why Sheikh Mohammed and his associates say they orchestrated the attacks of 9/11.

For reasons that are painfully obvious, the FCM have done their best to ignore or bury the role that Israel’s repression of the Palestinians has played in motivating the 9/11 attacks and other anti-Western terrorism.

It is not like there is no evidence on this key issue. Rather, it appears that the Israel-Palestine connection is pretty much kept off limits for discussion.

Yet, as Sheikh Mohammed and the other alleged 9/11 conspirators go to trial, the FCM's tacit but tight embargo will be under great strain. Eyes will have to be averted from the sensitive Israeli-Palestinian motive even more than from torture, which most Americans know about (and, God help us, are willing to explain away).

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/111509a.html
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I'm watching. It'll be interesting. Can we handle the truth?