Thursday, January 27, 2011

Terror trial: A judge in New York has sentenced a former Guantanamo prisoner to life in prison

The Tanzanians Ghailani was punished for his involvement in attacks on U.S. embassies 1998th It was the first civil procedure in the United States against a former occupant of the controversial prison camp. New York - The chance of a pardon has not Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani: Because of his lifelong involvement in the terrorist attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, the former Guantanamo detainee to jail.

The attacks were 224 people killed and thousands injured. A New York court sentenced the 36-year-old Tanzanians. The presiding judge Lewis Kaplan justified the imposition of the maximum penalty with the clearly discernible intent to kill the accused.

"Ghailani knew and intended that people are being killed as a result of his actions," said Kaplan. "Today is about justice - not only for Mr. Ghailani, but also for the victims." Ghailani had already been convicted in November by a Geschwnen jury of conspiring to destroy U.S. property guilty.

Only the penalty had to be set on Tuesday. The trial was the first civil cases on U.S. soil against a former occupant of the controversial U.S. prison camp. Further 285 charges against Ghailani, including conspiracy to murder U.S. citizens and conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and murder, had dropped the Geschwnen then.

The prosecution Ghailani classified as one of the masterminds of the attacks a one on the embassies in Africa and accused him of close ties to the terrorist network al-Qaida. They accused him of having bought for the attack in Tanzania, a truck and explosives. The defense argued against it, Ghailani did not know what he bought.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder praised the life sentence as an indication of the strength of the U.S. civil justice system. This was in a position to "terrorists for their actions to account," said Holder. The Minister of Justice is a critic of the military's special tribunals that were created for the trial of terrorist suspects in the camp in Cuba.

He advocates against the resistance, especially conservative politicians proceedings before the ordinary civil courts, where defendants enjoy full rights. The case against Ghailani was also a test of the policies of Barack Obama. The U.S. president wants to close the prison camp and let the passengers pass sentence before ordinary courts.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stressed again Tuesday that dam projects. We are absolutely determined to close Guantanamo, "she said during a press conference with her Spanish counterpart Trinidad Jiménez in Washington. However, the closure had proved more difficult than originally thought, she agreed and thanked Spain for the opening of three detainees from Guantanamo.

Clinton spoke three days after the first anniversary of Obama's original deadline for closing the prison camp. The President had promised to taking office in January 2009, the U.S. military base in Cuba detained prisoners until January 22, 2010 in regular prisons . to move in the U.S., Obama criticized the camp of terror network al-Qaeda help provide new recruits The Congress, however, prevented that the president fulfilled his promise.

First, he makes the transfer of the prisoners, and then he banned them completely in. that of Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush on January 11, 2002 as part of the "war on terror" camp founded are currently 173 prisoners, only three of them were sentenced by the courts. 

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