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US Guantanamo Ahmed Ghailani Tanzania Dar es Salam Al-Qaeda

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  • The first Guantanamo detainee who is to be tried in a US civilian court has arrived in New York, officials say.
  • Ahmed Ghailani has been transferred to face charges in a New York court in connection with the 1998 US embassy bombings in East Africa.
  • He was taken to Guantanamo with other "high value" detainees in late 2006.
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  • The US government hopes to transfer some of the detainees to other countries but negotiations have proved difficult, particularly over the issue of whether the US is willing to also receive detainees. Congress has rejected an administration request for funding to close down Guantanamo, amid widespread opposition to bringing detainees on to the US mainland.
  • The BBC's Rob Watson says the case of Ahmed Ghailani is, in many ways, one of the least problematic for the administration. He was first charged in 1998 after an extensive FBI investigation and there is therefore plenty of evidence against him.
  • "With his appearance in federal court today, Ahmed Ghailani is being held accountable for his alleged role in the bombing of US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya and the murder of 224 people," a statement by US Attorney General Eric Holder said.
  • 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 the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam.
  • He is alleged to have risen through the ranks of al-Qaeda to become a bodyguard of Osama Bin Laden.
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