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US charges embassy bomb suspect

Source: BBC News

Page last updated at 15:02 GMT, Monday, 31 March 2008 16:02 UK

US charges embassy bomb suspect

The US has charged a Guantanamo Bay detainee with war
crimes for the 1998 al-Qaeda attack on the US embassy
in Tanzania, which left 11 people dead.

Charges against Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian,
include murder and attacking civilians.

He was arrested in Pakistan in July 2004 and handed
over to the US in 2005.

The Pentagon said Mr Ghailani could receive the death
penalty if convicted by a tribunal at the US military
jail.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7323061.stm

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