5. 9/11 suspects Yielding to political opposition*, the Obama administration gave up on Monday on trying avowed* 9/11 mastermind* Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged henchmen* in a civilian federal court in New York and will prosecute them instead before military commissions*. The families of those killed in the September 11 attacks have waited almost a decade for justice, and “it must not be delayed any longer,” Attorney General Eric Holder told a news conference at the Justice Department. 
6. U.N. plane crashes A United Nations plane crashed while trying to land at the airport in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, on Monday, killing 32 people, U.N. officials said. One person aboard survived. “We can confirm only one survivor out of the 33 people on board the plane,” U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said in New York. The world body earlier said Congolese and foreign nationals were on board the plane. | 