Finally, the people are heard!

It has been almost 10 years since the horrific events of Sept. 11, 2001, and, sadly, the families of the victims are still waiting for justice.

This delay is mostly a result of the irresponsible campaign decision made by President Obama, later reinforced by Attorney General Eric Holder, that the mastermind of the terrorist attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, and four of his accomplices, who are all being held at Guantanamo Bay, would stand trial not in a military tribunal, but in civilian trials in a Lower Manhattan federal courthouse.

More than a year and a half later, however, after factoring in all of the security issues and political criticism, the administration finally reversed course. On April 4, a visibly frustrated Holder announced that it was in the best interests of the country for Mohammed to undergo a military trial at Guantanamo Bay.

Bravo! The administration finally got it right.

When Obama assumed the presidency, one of his first news-making pronouncements was his call for the closure of Guantanamo within a year. Mohammed was being held there after being taken into custody in 2003, but his prosecution was complicated by the fact that CIA interrogators had subjected him to waterboarding. The case was then stalled for other reasons like psychological competency and the fact that Mohammed and his co-defendants wanted to plead guilty and be put to death as martyrs for their cause.

Then, in November 2009, came Holder’s bewildering announcement that the terrorists’ trials would be held just blocks away from the World Trade Center site in the city that is the No. 1 terror target in the country.

In the aftermath of the announcement, a barrage of criticism from both sides of the aisle erupted in Washington, as well as from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and other law enforcement agencies, which were never made aware of the administration’s decision.