At least one federal judge understands that rendition and torture are not American values...
LosAngeles Times
U.S. civilian court acquits ex-Guantanamo detainee of all major terrorism charges
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The verdict involving a suspect in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa
may complicate efforts to try Sept. 11 defendants in nonmilitary U.S. courts.
But Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani may still face life in prison without parole for his conviction on a lesser count.
The verdict could presage trouble for President Obama's plans to close the U.S. military prison in Cuba
and bring its remaining detainees to the United States for trial.
Officials who want military commissions to try the men argue that terrorism suspects
would get too many rights and protections in civilian court.
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In Ghailani's monthlong trial, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan refused to allow a key government witness
to testify after finding that the information had been produced by torture at an undisclosed CIA foreign detention site.
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