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WASHINGTON – Pressured by the growing clamor from New York, the Obama administration appears likely to move the trial of Sept.. 11 terror suspects away from Manhattan, where it had been scheduled to take place just blocks from the site of the Twin Towers attack. The city’s top police official says he Thinks the trial will not take place anywhere in the city.

Published reports Friday said the administration had abandoned plans to hold the trial in New York City. Administration officials told The Associated Press they have not ruled out holding the trial in the city somewhere other than the Manhattan federal courthouse, but they privately acknowledge they have not found an acceptable alternative venue there.

Moving the trial would be a setback for President, Barack Obama. His administration has spent weeks Defending its handling of terror threats following the attempted bombing of Christmas Day for the Detroit-bound airliner, a case that reignited the debate about whether such terror suspects should face civilian or military justice.