Dar es Salaam handler to face military commission

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US charges embassy bomb suspect

The US has charged a Guantanamo Bay detainee with war crimes for the 1998 al-Qaeda attack on the US embassy in Tanzania, which left 11 people dead.

Charges against Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani - who was captured in 2004 - include murder and attacking civilians.

The Pentagon claims Mr Ghailani worked for al-Qaeda after the bombing as a forger, trainer and as a bodyguard for Osama Bin Laden.

The Pentagon said Mr Ghailani could receive the death penalty if convicted.

The DOD release can be found here:

Charges have been sworn against a Guantanamo Bay detainee, alleging he was involved in the preparation and planning of the 1998 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania, Defense Department officials announced today.

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, of Zanzibar, Tanzania, is being charged with murder in violation of the law of war, murder of protected persons, attacking civilians, attacking civilian objects, intentionally causing serious bodily injury, destruction of property in violation of the law of war, and terrorism, Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Hartmann, legal advisor to the convening authority in the DoD Office of Military Commissions, told reporters at the Pentagon.

Ghailani is the 15th detainee against whom charges have been sworn under the Military Commissions Act.

The chief prosecutor in the case has recommended that the charges against Ghailani be referred as capital, Hartmann said. The charges now will be reviewed by Hartmann and forwarded to Susan Crawford, the convening authority, who will decide whether the case should be referred to trial and whether the charges should be capital, which would mean a maximum penalty of death.

The actual DOD charge sheet does not seem to have been posted on the DefenseLink site.

Apparently, one of this moron's aliases is "Foopie." Yikes.

 

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Here is the charge sheet.

 

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Wow - a surprising amount of detail specific to the attacks...

7. In or about December 1997, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani purchased a cellular telephone, cellular telephone service, and cellular telephone number 328848 at the request of, and with money provided by, Mustafa Mohamed Fadhil. This telephone was used to facilitate communications for the group responsible for the bombing of the United States Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

8. On several occasions between 1997 and August 1998, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani traveled to Arusha, Tanzania, where he obtained TNT, detonators and detonation cord from a co-owner of a mining company, and transported them to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

9. In the latter part of 1997 and during 1998, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani stored TNT, detonators and detonation cord at his residence located at 15 Amani, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

1O. In or about January 1998, Khalfan Khamis Mohammed rented 22 Kidugalo, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In or about March or April of 1998, Mustafa Mohamed Fadhil moved into 22 Kidugalo with Khalfan Khamis Mohammed.

11 .At various times in mid··1998, Mustafa Mohamed Fadhil, Khalfan Khamis Mohammed, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan, and Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam met at Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani's residence located at 15 Amani, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

12.In or about June 1998, Khalfan Khamis Mohammed and Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam purchased a white Suzuki Samurai (the Suzuki Samurai) at a location in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania...

Suzuki Samurai... Foopie...

 

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Only a matter of time before the predictable claims from the usual suspects that all of this information was obtained through waterboarding, torture, etc etc.