"Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is going to meet justice and he'll meet his maker!" So says President Obama's spokesman Robert Gibbs.
From that we can deduce that the White House clearly has no doubt about the verdict and sentence KSM should receive ... but the big problem is when, where and how the trial will take place.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed admits masterminding 9/11 2001 but politicians can't agree on where he should be tried.
A Federal court in lower Manhattan had been selected but New York doesn't want it and the Obama administration - forced to reconsider - remains committed to a civilian court trial at least for now. Gibbs told a U.S. TV network on Sunday: