Ghailani Gets Life in Prison for U.S. Embassy Bombings
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Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, the first Guantanamo Bay detainee tried in U.S. civilian court, was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people.
Ghailani, 36, a Tanzanian citizen, was convicted Nov. 17 by a federal jury in New York of one count of conspiracy to destroy U.S. buildings and cleared of 284 other charges stemming from the Aug. 7, 1998, attacks on the embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in New York.