The government’s plan to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others accused of masterminding the 9/11 attacks on trial in Manhattan is a bad idea, Gov. Paterson said today.

“This is not a decision that I would have made,” Paterson said when asked about the upcoming federal trial. “Our country was attacked on its own soil on Sept. 11, 2001, and New York was very much the epicenter of that attack.”

“It’s very painful. We’re still having trouble getting over it,” he added. “We still haven’t been able to rebuild that site and having those terrorists tried so close to the attack is going to be an encumbrance on all of New Yorkers.”

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