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Ghailani guilty on one count
The first Guantanamo detainee to be tried in a civilian court has
been found not guilty on all but one of 286 terror charges. Ahmad Ghailani was
accused over the 1998 al-Qaeda bomb attacks on US embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania that killed 224 people. Ahmad Ghailani was found guilty of consipracy
to damage or destroy US property, and for that he'll face at least 20 years in
jail. From New York Al Jazeera's Kristen Saloomey reports.
Ex-federal prosecutor
discusses Ghailani verdict
Michael Wildes tells Al Jazeera that Ahmed Ghailani, a Tanzanian
national who was found guilty of conspiracy to damage or destroy US property in
the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa, should have been tried by a
military combatant tribunal instead of a civilian court.