[Al Arabiya Latest] An al-Qaeda suspect accused in the 1998 American Embassy bombings in Africa was transferred from Guantanamo Bay Tuesday for prosecution in a New York court, the Justice Department said.That'd be our boy Foopy.
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He's in a different category from (at least most) of the other hard boyz, since he was wanted as of 9-11-2001 for his participation in the Nairobi and Dar es Salaam kabooms. So it doesn't matter if he was only in Pakistain studying Islam.
Ghailani, a Tanzanian who had been held at the U.S. naval base in Cuba since September 2006, arrived in New York early Tuesday under escort from the U.S. Marshals Service. The Justice Department said he faced 286 counts, including conspiring with Osama bin Laden and other members of al-Qaeda to kill Americans anywhere in the world, and separate charges of murder for the deaths of each of the 224 people killed in the Aug. 7, 1998, U.S. Embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya.
Good idea. Never forgive, never forget, never "understand."
Several of the counts against Ghailani, including murder of U.S. employees at the embassies and use and attempted use of weapons of mass destruction against U.S. nationals, carry maximum sentences of death or life in prison.
"Weapons of mass destruction" (he said, patiently) are a special category of weaponry. They include nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. They do not include conventional explosives. Not even big conventional explosives. I hope it's only the ignoramus who wrote this that says Foopy's a WMD user, rather than the indictment.
What's worse is that the defense lawyers will get to read all sorts of top-secret and eyes-only documents about how we gathered information on Foopy. Wouldn't want him to have an unfair trial, y'know. All the choice tidbits in those files will just happen to find their way to certain people in Chitral and elsewhere.