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Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The US can't call a key witness in the trial of Ahmed Ghailani, an alleged terrorist charged with bombing two US embassies, [...]

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The government has said that the witness, Hussein Abebe, would testify that he sold TNT to Mr. Ghailani that was later used to blow up the United States [...]

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Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian accused of a key role in the killing of 224 people during the bombings against two US embassies in Africa in 1998, [...]

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The government's key witness has been barred from testifying, but prosecutors do not want to delay the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, who is charged in [...]

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Ghailani is the first suspect held in Guantanamo to be tried in an American civilian court. US Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan has granted a motion by Ahmed [...]

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Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian who's been in US custody since 2004, is accused of assisting the 1998 bombings of US embassies in East Africa that [...]

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Courtroom sketch shows Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani (L) during jury selection in New York. The first trial of a former Guantanamo detainee in a civilian US court [...]

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Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani is being tried for his role in an earlier al Qaeda terrorist attack on US interests: the bombings of two US embassies in Africa in [...]

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Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian, is accused of helping to carry out embassy bombings in East Africa in 1998 that killed 224 people and injured hundreds [...]

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By the CNN Wire Staff Ahmed Ghailani, who is accused in the 1998 bombings of US embassies, appears in court last week in an artist's rendering. [...]

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10 May 2010 A federal judge refused to dismiss charges against a Tanzanian accused in the 1998 bombings of two US embassies, after the man alleged he [...]

6 Oct 2010 Here's a statement from Liz Cheney hitting the Obama administration for "insisting on trying Ahmed Ghailani in civilian court with full [...]

8 Oct 2010 Liz Cheney may be right that excluding a witness derived by torture will make the government's case against Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani more [...]

7 Oct 2010 The usual suspects are out wailing that Judge Lewis Kaplan's order, excluding the testimony of Hussein Abebe from Ahmed Ghailani's trial, [...]

Ghailani has been accused by the government of being a bomb maker, document forger and aide to Osama bin Laden. He's charged with conspiring in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. The attacks killed 224 people, [...]

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Jurors in the trial of a Guantanamo detainee accused of supplying explosives for the deadly bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa can see Osama bin Laden’s orders more than a decade ago that his followers kill Americans, a judge ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge Lewis A [...]

Ghailani is accused of conspiring to blow up two American embassies in East Africa in 1998. In pre-trial motions, his lawyers advanced two arguments other Guantanamo defendants are likely to try: they asked the judge to dismiss the [...]

By bringing Ghailani to the United States, the Obama administration "is granting a terrorist and murderer additional constitutional rights," he said. "Even if convicted, Ghailani could be released in the U.S. after serving his sentence. [...]

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US District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan, presiding over the case of former Guantanamo detainee, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, ruled today that Hussein Abebe, a key government witness, may not take the stand because he was identified as a result [...]

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Defense lawyers argue that the witness , Hussein Abebe , who the government says supplied Ghailani with explosives used to bomb the US embassy in Tanzania in 1998 , should be barred from the case because his identity is the fruit of the [...]

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Ghailani was arrested in Pakistan in 2004 in connection with the Tanzania and Kenya bombings and taken to a secret CIA-run camp overseas. Though much of the litigation about his treatment there has been kept secret, the defense divulged [...]

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The government had acknowledged it learned about the witness from the defendant, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, while he was being interrogated while being held in a secret overseas jail run by the Central Intelligence Agency. [...]

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A witness cannot take the stand because prosecutors learned about him from interrogating the defendant in a secret C.I.A. jail overseas, the judge ruled. [...]

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As you may recall, Ghailani is under indictment in relation to the 1998 East African embassy bombings, but until recently had been held for years at GTMO. He was transferred to New York for trial, and is viewed in some quarters as a [...]