Projected Security Costs For The 9/11 Trials At $200 Million A Year

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed during his arrest on March 1, 2003. Handout

Security For Trial Of 9/11 Mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Would Cost $200M A Year: Sources

Security for the federal trial of self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four accused cohorts will run $200 million a year, sources told the Daily News.

The NYPD's newly revised projection is almost triple the estimate of $75 million in November, after Attorney General Eric Holder announced he would move the prisoners from Guantanamo to Manhattan for trial.

The legal process is expected to play out over more than a year.

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My Comment: This is even worse than what I had predicted. If their pretrial preparation is as good as their projections for trial costs and security .... I see a mess of a trial coming up and costs ballooning to hundreds of millions.

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