By Heather Grossmann
DNAinfo News Editor
MANHATTAN — Mayor Michael Bloomberg has had enough of the federal government's waffling on holding the 9/11 terror trials in lower Manhattan and wants "a decision one way or another."
Bloomberg made the comments on his weekly radio appearance days after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee that "New York is not off the table" as a possible trial host.
"I've given them my opinion and they can do what they want," Bloomberg said on the "John Gambling Show" Friday morning.
"But I do think they should do it," he continued. "Do it in the sense of making a decision one way or another, and I hope the decision is to have the trial elsewhere."
The plan to try accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four accomplices in federal court downtown touched off community opposition, later joined by local politicians. Residents complained the trial would turn their neighborhoods into police state.
Federal officials have gone back and forth on whether to hold the trials in federal court or in a military facility in the state or elsewhere.
"I don't think the decision is going to get any easier for them," Bloomberg said.
