Tanzanian, Ghailani, convicted in '98 Attacks
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani A jury convicted a former Guantanamo detainee of one count of conspiracy in the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa, but acquitted him of more than 280 other counts in a case widely seen as a test of the Obama administration's effort to try terror suspects in civilian courts.
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, 36, of Tanzania, was the first former detainee of the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to be tried in a U.S civilian court. He faces 20 years to life in prison.
Mr. Ghailani's acquittal of the vast majority of charges could boost the arguments of those who maintain that military tribunals, and not civilian courts, are the proper venues for major terrorist trials. It also bolsters the view from others who say the security fears that surrounded the decision to try Mr. Ghailani in lower Manhattan were overblown.
The verdict, delivered Wednesday by an anonymous jury of six women and six men, is "a blow to both sides of the debate; neither side comes away with a clean argument for its case," said Robert Chesney, a University of Texas law professor and who served on a Obama Justice Department detainee task force. On one hand, he said, the government can claim some victory with one guilty count, but opponents of civilian trials can't ignore that Mr. Ghailani will likely get a tough sentence.
Mr. Ghailani, who was imprisoned Guantanamo from 2004 to 2009, was charged in connection with two deadly truck bombings outside U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya that killed 224 people and injured thousands more.
On Wednesday, Matthew Miller, Justice Department spokesman, said: "We respect the jury's verdict and are pleased that Ahmed Ghailani now faces a minimum of 20 years in prison and a potential life sentence for his role in the embassy bombings." The Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, whose office handled the case, said he would seek the maximum sentence of life without parole during sentencing in January.
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Apewe maximum sentence. Mshenzi kabisa huyu, amekosa ustaarabu. Kazi kuua watu wasio na makosa kwa kusingizia dini. Ufie jela usione tena mwanga wa jua.
ReplyDeleteKwani a current picture or photograph of the convicted man can not be shown? Or is it part of the judicial process.
ReplyDeleteMopoza (whatever his name was) got a life stence for killing his cousin and dumping her body in a river in Wiscosin, USA.
This guy should have the book thrown at him for contributing to the deaths, maiming, tearing apart of families, blinding many victims and destruction of property in East Africa.
Timothy McVeigh got a death sentence for the Oklahoma bombing. So why did the jury not do the same with this guy?
Or is it becuase the crime was executed in a remore place like East Africa and majority of the dead and victims were the kind of people the jury could identify with?
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