Manhattan Judge Sets Trial Date for Guantanamo Detainee
Thursday, July 02, 2009
New York, NY –
A federal judge in Manhattan has set a September 2010 trial date for a Guantanamo detainee charged in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.
Authorities allege Ahmed Ghailani was a bomb-maker, document forger and aide to Osama bin Laden. The attacks at embassies in Tanzania and Kenya killed 224 people.
Ghailani became the first Guantanamo detainee brought to the U.S. for a civilian trial when he arrived in New York last month.
Yesterday his lawyers asked the government to preserve so-called "black sites" where he was held overseas, so they can inspect them prior to his trial.
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