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Confessed U.S. Embassy bomber acquitted on 280+ counts in civilian trial

Posted on November 18, 2010
by creepingsharia

He confessed. The confession was inadmissible in civilian court.

A U.S. jury acquitted the Islamic terrorist who killed 224 people, including 12 Americans, on all but one charge of conspiracy. He could still be sentenced to life. Holder’s reputation as terrorists best friend is in tact.

via Alleged Al-Qaeda terrorist Ahmed Ghailani acquitted of all but one charge in embassy bombing trial.

The first civilian trial of a Guantanamo detainee ended Wednesday with an alleged Al Qaeda operative being cleared on all counts but one in the bombing of two U.S embassies.

A federal jury in Manhattan convicted Ahmed Ghailani of conspiring to destroy U.S. buildings and property in the 1998 truck bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.

Ghailani, 36, was acquitted on more than 280 other counts, including the top charges of murder and murder conspiracy.

The charge he was convicted of carries a mandatory 20-year to life sentence because people were killed. Ghailani, who appeared relieved at being cleared on the other counts, is due back in court for sentencing on Jan. 25.

Rep. Pete King (R-LI), who has been a staunch opponent of civilian trials for terrorism suspects, called the mixed verdict “a disgraceful miscarriage of justice.”

“It shows how totally wrong the Obama administration is to bring a case like this to civilian court,” he said. “He was acquitted of 224 counts of murder.”

“If this had been before a military tribunal, evidence that was blocked in this case would have been admissable,” King said.

The case underscores some of the challenges faced by prosecutors. A judge barred a key witness from testifying because his name came to light while Ghailani was held at a CIA camp where questionable interrogation techniques were used.

Edith Bartley, who lost her father and brother in the Kenya bombing was stunned Ghailani was cleared on any charges.

“This man committed horrible acts and the fact that the jury found him guilty of conspiracy but not of the other counts is mind-boggling,” she said. “He should be sentenced to life.”

DOJ’s civilian trial of Embassy bomber crumbling

From an earlier post by Andrew McCarthy at National Review:

“Ahmed Ghailani has confessed to bombing the U.S. embassy in Tanzania twelve years ago. As he explained to the FBI in a series of 2007 interviews, he bought the TNT used in the explosion. He even identified the man from whom he purchased it — a man who was subsequently located, who corroborated Ghailani’s confession, and who has been cooperating with American and Tanzanian authorities ever since. Ghailani also helped buy the truck and other components used to carry out the suicide attack.

“The two simultaneous embassy bombings — Ghailani’s in Dar es Salaam and a second, more devastating one at the American embassy in Nairobi, Kenya — killed at least 224 people. The bombings made Ghailani, then in his early 20s, an icon of the jihad. He strode al-Qaeda’s training camps in Afghanistan and bonded with fellow terrorists, including some who would later conduct the 9/11 attacks. In fact, Ghailani was so highly regarded that he was chosen to serve as a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden himself.

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