Bin Laden threatens Americans
25 March 2010 | 
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aljazeera.net - March 25, 2010 Osama bin Laden has in a new audio recording threatened to kill any Americans that al-Qaeda takes prisoner if Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, considered as one of the masterminds behind the September 11 attacks, is executed.
The latest recording purportedly from the al-Qaeda leader was broadcast on Al Jazeera on Thursday. "The day America will take such decision [to execute Mohammed and any others] it would have taken a decision to execute whoever we capture," Bin Laden said. There was no immediate comment from the United States. Mohammed and four other people allegedly involved in the 9/11 attacks are due to go on trial in the US, where prosecutors are expected to seek the death penalty. Military tribunal Mohammed was captured in 2003 by Pakistani troops and sent to the US prison facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 2006, where he was expected to undergo a military trial. But last November, Eric Holder, the US attorney-general, said that he would try Mohammed in a New York civilian court. The US government is currently deciding whether to overturn that decision following opposition from Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, and legislators in Washington. US officials have said that presidential advisers are nearing a recommendation that Mohammed, along with four others, be tried in a military tribunal.