Gitmo detainee brought to New York for trial on embassy bombings

Washington Post:

The Obama administration for the first time has transferred a Guantanamo Bay detainee into the United States, flying the suspect to New York early today to face federal charges in the 1998 East Africa embassy bombings.

U.S. Marshals took custody of Ahmed Ghailani, a Tanzanian, at the military prison in Cuba and moved him to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, officials said. He is expected to appear in federal court later today.

Ghailani faces multiple charges and, if convicted, could face the death penalty for his role in the bombing of U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, which killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.

"With his appearance in federal court today, Ahmed Ghailani is being held accountable for his alleged role in the bombing of U.S. Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya and the murder of 224 people," Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said in a statement. "The Justice Department has a long history of securely detaining and successfully prosecuting terror suspects through the criminal justice system, and we will bring that experience to bear in seeking justice in this case."

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The real reason he is being brought for trial in New York is to try to turn public opinion on the closing of Gitmo and bringing even more detainees to the US. Holder and Obama know the voters oppose that so they are trying to change opinion with incremental things like this trial.

The last embassy bombing trials resulted in convictions but were an intelligence debacle. In the course of the trial we divulged that we had been intercepting Osama bin Laden's satellite phone communications with the embassy bombers. After that revelation in the late 90's, bin Laden quit using the phone that might have revealed the 9-11 attacks. We don't know what will be revealed to help the enemy in this trial, but Holder and Obama have political priorities that out weigh legitimate national security concerns.

They are intent on returning to the failed lawfare policies of the past putting their ideology ahead of our national security.

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