Geo436 NEW YORK: US prosecutors on Tuesday painted a man accused in the bombings of two US embassies in Africa as an Al-Qaeda killer, but defense lawyers said he was an innocent man, wrongly swept into the war on terror.
The opening statements in a New York federal court finally kicked off the politically charged trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, the first former inmate of the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be brought before a civilian judge.
Ghailani faces a staggering 286 criminal counts including murder and conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction during the 1998 attacks against the embassies in Tanzania and Kenya that killed 224 people.
Prosecutor Nicholas Lewin said Ghailani was an integral part of Osama bin Laden”s world of America-hating militants and that he helped supervise the construction of the massive truck bomb that rammed into the US embassy in Tanzania”s capital Dar-es-Salaam.
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