The BBC News reports today that:
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani has been charged with war crimes in relation to the US embassy bombing in Tanzania in 1998, which killed 11 people and left dozens injured. Mr Ghailani, a Tanzanian, was arrested in Pakistan in July 2004 and handed over to the US at the beginning of 2005.
He was one of 14 detainees transferred in September 2006 from secret CIA prisons abroad to the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba. Charges brought by the Pentagon include murder, attacking civilians, conspiracy and providing material support to terrorism. The Pentagon is seeking the death penality if the conviction is successful.
According to the transcript of a closed-door hearing in March 2007, Mr Ghailani admitted delivering explosives used to blow up the US embassy in Tanzania in 1998.
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