United States v. Ghailani

MEMORANDUM OPINION

LEWIS A. KAPLAN, District Judge.

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, an alleged member of AI Qaeda, was indicted in this Court in 1998 and charged with conspiring with Usama Bin Laden and others to kill Americans abroad by, among other means, bombing the United States Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. An arrest warrant promptly issued. Some years later, Ghailani was captured abroad and turned over to the Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA”). Rather than execute the arrest warrant issued at the time of the indictment, the executive branch held Ghailani in CIA…