Attorney General Eric Holder says self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York for trial in a civilian federal court and he expects to seek the death penalty.

At a news conference Friday the Attorney General said five other suspects will be sent to military commissions.

Holder said the detainees in the New York case will be tried in a courthouse just blocks from where the September 11th attackers brought down the twin towers.