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Just blocks away from Tribute Park in Belle Harbor, Queens, the memorial to the World Trade Center attack victims from the Rockaways, there is no shortage of opinions about the decision to move the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11th terrorist attacks, to New York.

"I think it's a proper venue," says resident Bill Keating. "I think the crime basically occurred here, I think that the experience level is gonna be important, it's a very technical trial."

"If all goes well, as expected, it should bring closure to a lot of broken hearts and children that have grown up without their parents or loved ones," says resident Paul Mastros. "So right here would be greatly appreciated, I know by me."

As for the government's decision to seek the death penalty against all five defendants alleged connected with the September 11th attacks, many in the tight-knit Queens community say that's welcome news.

"Death penalty sounds good to me," says another resident. "They deserve worse than that. That's the easy way out."

Others, however, aren't so sure about bringing the trials to New York. Frank Siller, the brother of a Staten Island firefighter killed in the attacks, says the case shouldn't be handled in federal court at all.

"It's a bad thing to take it out. They're in [Guantanamo], they should stay there and be tried by military court, and whatever the outcome is, they should be sentenced accordingly," says Siller. "They're not Americans. They don't deserve the same rights as Americans."

Charles Wolf, who lost his wife Catherine on September 11th, agrees with Siller, but doesn't want the trial in New York for a different reason.

"They are not a country. They do not need to abide by the same regulations that we do when we go to war with a country," says Wolf. "And so there's no way these folks should be tried in a federal court where they'd get the constitutional protections that are afforded every citizen of this country."

Lee Ielpi, who lost his firefighter son Jonathan on September 11th, says trying Mohammad in open court would reopen wounds that have taken so long to heal.

"It'll rip open that scar," says Ielpi. "New York City is still recovering from the events from September 11th and having it back here again, that scar would be ripped open once again."

It's a scar that is still fresh for the friends and families of 273 Staten Island residents who lost their lives on September 11th.