Libs let a terrorist walk free.

The first civilian trial of a Guantanamo detainee ended in disarray Wednesday with an alleged Al Qaeda operative convicted on only a single conspiracy count the African embassy bombing trial.

Ahmed Ghailani, 36, was acquitted on 224 counts after being charged with helping a terror cell buy a truck and components for explosives used in a suicide bombing in Tanzania on Aug. 7, 1998.

The jury found Ghailani convicted of conspiring to destroy U.S. buildings and property. The charge carries a mandatory 20-year to life sentence because there was loss of life. Ghailani is due back in Manhattan federal court for sentencing on Jan. 25.

The case was considered a test-run for the politically-charged possibility of trying other detainees held at Guantanamo Bay in civilian courtrooms.

The verdict came after five days of sometimes stormy deliberations in which a juror asked to be removed on Monday which had raised the specter of a hung jury.

The attack in Dar es Salaam and a nearly simultaneous bombing in Nairobi, Kenya, killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.

The day before the bombings, Ghailani fled with a one-way ticket to Pakistan under an alias, prosecutors said.

While on the run, he spent time in Afghanistan as a cook and bodyguard for Osama bin Laden and later as a document forger for al-Qaida, authorities said.

He was captured in 2004 in Pakistan and held by the CIA at a secret overseas camp. In 2006, he was transferred to Guantanamo and held until the decision last year to bring him to New York.


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It makes me want to vomit, I look at the bright side however, at least he got convicted of something.

My guess would be he got off on Jury Sympathy like so many henious felons I've witnessed in the past.


Billy

I wouldn't call a mandatory sentence of 20 years to life as "letting a terrorist walk free", but the fact that this camel sodomizer was acquitted on 224 counts makes me puke.

Gotta love New York City juries.  New York City jurors have a LONG track record of letting criminals off the hook.  Look how many times John Gotti was acquitted before he got convicted.

New York City inhabitants are just as nuts as most California inhabitants (notice I said "most", Solar and ST),

None of this would have been an issue, if the libs had let the Military handle this as it should have.

Quote from: AmericanFlyer on November 17, 2010, 05:45:03 PM
I wouldn't call a mandatory sentence of 20 years to life as "letting a terrorist walk free", but the fact that this camel sodomizer was acquitted on 224 counts makes me puke.

Gotta love New York City juries.  New York City jurors have a LONG track record of letting criminals off the hook.  Look how many times John Gotti was acquitted before he got convicted.

New York City inhabitants are just as nuts as most California inhabitants (notice I said "most", Solar and ST),

Thanks for the acknowledgment,,, ;D ;D ;D ;D...