Widow: Try Terror Suspect in US Court

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Widow: Try Terror Suspect in US Court
April 02, 2008
Miami Herald

MIAMI - An American college professor whose Kenyan husband was killed in the 1998 al-Qaida suicide bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania said April 1 that a Guantanamo captive accused in the attack should be tried in a federal court, not by military commissions.

"These commissions have been fraught with challenges - from coerced evidence to secret evidence," said Susan Hirsch, a professor at George Mason University outside Washington D.C.

She called the Guantanamo war court, established after the Sept. 11 attacks, "an unprecedented newly created procedure" that has been "roundly condemned worldwide."

Hirsch, 48, spoke to The Miami Herald a day after the Pentagon prosecutor filed proposed death penalty charges against Ahmad Ghailani, in his 30s, for helping collect materials for a truck bomb that blew through the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on Aug. 7, 1998.

The Pentagon maintains that the trials by commissions are fair and give accused terrorists many of the same rights as American soldiers.


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