Gitmo Detainee Wants Indictment Dismissal After Delays
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A Guantanamo detainee asked that charges be dismissed in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, citing a long wait for trial.
Lawyers for Ahmed Ghailani said their client's case raised the question of whether national security can trump an indicted defendant's constitutional right to a speedy trial. Papers filed in federal court in Manhattan seeking to have the indictment dismissed were released Tuesday.
Authorities allege Ghailani was a bomb-maker, document forger and aide to Osama bin Laden. The attacks at embassies in Tanzania and Kenya killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.
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Ghailani was brought to the United States earlier this year. The Tanzanian, captured in Pakistan in 2004, was held in Guantanamo since 2006.