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Ghailani Found Not Guilty on 284 of 285 Charges
Holder and Obama sure aren't the sharpest tools in the shed. Another stuning success Mr President! 🙄
Jurors have delivered mixed a verdict in the first civilian trial of a Guantanamo detainee.
After hitting a snag earlier this week when one juror said she felt threatened by others, the panel on Wednesday delivered a guilty verdict against Ahmed Ghailani on only one of nearly 300 counts against him.
The Manhattan jury deliberated over seven days before finding Ghailani guilty of just one count of conspiracy to destroy U.S. buildings. He was acquitted of multiple other counts including murder and murder conspiracy.
Prosecutors said Ghailani helped an al-Qaida cell buy a truck and components for explosives used in a suicide bombing in his native Tanzania on Aug. 7, 1998. 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 by boarding a one-way flight 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.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/ghailani-found-not-guilty-285-286-charges_518130.html
Holder and Obama sure aren't the sharpest tools in the shed. Another stuning success Mr President! 🙄