Obama throwing his far-left base a bone, he knows the American people won’t stand for this.

(Fox News)– Though the Obama administration is pursuing a military trial for the suspected bomber of the USS Cole, an attack that killed 17 sailors off the coast of Yemen in 2000, the president and his team have left the door open to a civilian trial for the men thought responsible for the 9/11 attacks.

Opponents of the administration’s effort to try terror suspects in the civilian court system applauded the move, confirmed Thursday by Attorney General Eric Holder, to try Abd al-Nashiri at the prisoner of war camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But at a press conference Thursday, Holder was quick to say that it didn’t mean he was giving up on civilian courts for other terror suspects, like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 conspirators.

“We are still in the process of determining where the trials will be and what form they will be in and no decision has been made,” Holder said of his proposal to try KSM in federal court in Manhattan, a plan which has been in legal limbo almost since the moment he first announced it 14 months ago. “Nothing is off the table yet.”

Today’s announcement of a military trial for the Cole bombing suspect seemed to mark a departure for the White House after more than a year of trying, without success, to hold civilian trials for terror suspects. But Press Secretary Robert Gibbs pushed back on the idea that this was a change in approach, saying it was consistent with the president’s speech on the subject in May 2009 at the National Archives.

“You heard the president back at the archives speech talk about the fact that we had different groups at Guantanamo that had to be dealt with in different ways,” Gibbs said.