United States v. Ghailani

MEMORANDUM OPINION

LEWIS A. KAPLAN, District Judge.

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, an alleged member of A1 Qaeda, is 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, bombings in which 224 people reportedly were killed. He first was indicted in this Court in 1998 for the charged crimes. He was captured abroad in 2004 by a foreign state and soon was turned over to the Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA”), which detained and interrogated him outside the United States…