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CNNNew York (CNN) -- No sooner had opening statements begun Tuesday than lawyers for a man accused in the 1998 bombing of a U.S. embassy in East Africa called for a mistrial.
Lawyers for accused terrorist Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani argued that the government had violated an agreement to refrain from calling Ghailani an al Qaeda operative. The motion was promptly struck down by U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan, propelling forward the precedent-setting case of the first Guantanamo detainee to be tried in civilian court.
In his opening statement, prosecutor Nicholas Lewin reconstructed the fateful morning in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, when the U.S. Embassy, buzzing with activity, was attacked by a suicide bomber in an explosives-laden truck.
"At 10:39 that morning, that truck bomb explodes with vicious and lethal force," Lewin says. "By the time the smoke clears that morning, 11 people are dead."
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