[ti:Jury Decision Renews Debate on Civilian Terror Trials in US]
[ar:Steve Ember]
[al:IN THE NEWS]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is IN THE NEWS
[00:06.72]in VOA Special English.
[00:09.76]On Wednesday,
[00:11.00]a jury in federal court
[00:13.78]in New York City
[00:15.18]announced its decision
[00:16.97]in the case of Ahmed Ghailani.
[00:19.91]The Tanzanian was the first
[00:22.20]terrorism suspect held
[00:24.55]at Guantanamo ever
[00:26.40]to face trial
[00:28.19]in a civilian court
[00:29.39]instead of a military court.
[00:31.94]He was charged
[00:33.47]in the al-Qaida bombings
[00:35.46]of the American embassies
[00:37.51]in Tanzania and Kenya
[00:40.04]on August seventh,
[00:41.99]nineteen ninety-eight.
[00:43.48]The attacks killed
[00:45.31]two hundred twenty-four people,
[00:47.76]including twelve Americans.
[00:49.35]Government lawyers said
[00:52.74]Mr. Ghailani bought the truck
[00:55.27]and tanks of gas used
[00:57.97]in the bombing in Tanzania.
[01:00.06]The government brought
[01:01.76]two hundred eighty-five charges
[01:03.85]against him, mostly for murder.
[01:06.53]But the twelve-member jury
[01:09.12]found him guilty of just one charge:
[01:11.95]conspiracy to destroy
[01:14.00]United States property
[01:16.47]with an explosive device.
[01:18.36]The crime carries a sentence of
[01:21.28]at least twenty years in prison
[01:23.53]and a possible life sentence.
[01:26.42]Mr. Ghailani is thirty-six.
[01:29.26]He faces sentencing in January.
[01:32.05]He was the fifth person found
[01:35.48]guilty in the embassy bombings.
[01:37.73]The other four were also tried
[01:40.96]in civilian court in New York
[01:43.50]and received life sentences
[01:46.09]in two thousand one.
[01:47.89]But they had never been held
[01:50.97]at the American military
[01:52.76]detention center
[01:54.11]at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
[01:56.65]Senator Joe Lieberman says
[01:59.33]the jury's decision makes
[02:01.77]it highly unlikely
[02:03.21]there will be many more
[02:05.16]civilian trials
[02:06.50]of Guantanamo detainees.
[02:09.19]Senator Lieberman, an Independent,
[02:11.53]heads the Senate Homeland Security
[02:14.44]and Governmental Affairs Committee.
[02:17.09]JOE LIEBERMAN: "To me, we are in a war.
[02:19.23]And people you capture
[02:22.17]in a war should be held
[02:23.31]in a military setting."
[02:24.46]But Tom Malinowski of the group
[02:26.75]Human Rights Watch
[02:27.99]defended the jury's verdict,
[02:30.28]after a trial in a city
[02:31.92]that was also attacked by al-Qaida.
[02:35.26]TOM MALINOWSKI: "It shows that
[02:36.05]American courts and American juries
[02:38.34]are independent and thoughtful
[02:41.43]and take their responsibilities
[02:43.52]very, very seriously."
[02:44.66]Republican Representative John Boehner
[02:47.45]-- soon to become the speaker
[02:49.09]of the House -- urged President Obama
[02:51.68]to try future suspects
[02:53.97]in military courts.
[02:55.96]The president wants
[02:57.70]to close Guantanamo,
[02:59.74]but the Ghailani verdict
[03:01.48]could make it even harder
[03:02.83]for him to get Congress to agree.
[03:05.36]Defense lawyer Peter Quijano
[03:08.36]told the court that al-Qaida members
[03:11.41]tricked Mr. Ghailani
[03:13.10]into unknowingly helping them.
[03:16.33]He says the defense team
[03:18.92]will appeal the conviction
[03:20.57]on the single charge.
[03:22.17]Mr. Ghailani was captured
[03:24.90]six years ago in Pakistan.
[03:27.54]The Central Intelligence Agency
[03:30.13]held him there for two years
[03:32.77]before he arrived at Guantanamo.
[03:35.85]The government's case
[03:38.25]suffered a setback
[03:40.04]before the trial began.
[03:41.93]Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected evidence
[03:46.01]from a government witness.
[03:47.80]Hussein Abebe was expected
[03:51.19]to tell the court that he
[03:53.53]had sold explosives to Mr. Ghailani.
[03:56.41]But Judge Kaplan said
[03:59.15]the government violated
[04:00.84]Mr. Ghailani's constitutional rights.
[04:04.28]The judge said Mr. Abebe
[04:07.16]was identified as a direct result
[04:10.35]of statements made
[04:12.05]by Mr. Ghailani under duress
[04:14.54]while held by the CIA.
[04:16.58]Mr. Ghailani's lawyers say
[04:20.21]he was tortured.
[04:21.21]The government would not
[04:23.51]discuss details of his treatment.
[04:26.15]Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch
[04:28.94]thinks a military court
[04:31.53]would have reached the same decision
[04:33.97]as the civilian jury.
[04:36.46]TOM MALINOWSKI: "The military commissions
[04:37.50]have been reformed by the Congress
[04:39.99]and the Obama administration
[04:41.43]in a way that prohibits
[04:43.52]absolutely the use
[04:44.97]of any evidence obtained
[04:47.16]through torture or cruelty."
[04:49.54]And that's IN THE NEWS
[04:50.99]in VOA Special English.
[04:53.97]I'm Steve Ember.
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