Ahmed Ghailani

July 12, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Bin Laden Loyalist Transferred from Guantanamo to Sudan

The Defense Department announced on Wednesday that Ibrahim al Qosi, a Guantanamo detainee who long served deceased al Qa...

October 12, 2011 | Andrew McCarthy National Review Online

With Holder, the Politicizing Never Stops

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be underwear bomber who tried to bring down Northwest Airlines Flight 253 and kill its 292 passengers and crew on Chr...

August 5, 2011 | The Long War Journal

Al Qaeda Fighter’s Detention Upheld By DC Circuit Court

On July 22, a DC Circuit Court panel affirmed a district court's denial of Guantanamo detainee Moath Hamza Ahmed al Alwi's petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Government prosecutors i...

July 26, 2011 | |

The Daqduq Dilemma

He is an enemy combatant, so treat him as one.

March 9, 2011 |

Jonah v. Dr. K on Gitmo

 I just watched the clip of the discussion between Jonah and Charles Krauthammer on Bret Baier’s Fox panel last night. I come away unpersuaded by Charles’s argument. &nb...

January 29, 2011 | National Review Online

Untangling Ghailani

In Manhattan on Tuesday, Judge Lewis Kaplan gave al-Qaeda terrorist Ahmed Ghailani a sentence of life imprisonment after his conviction on a single count of conspiring to bomb American embassies...

December 21, 2010 | David B. Rivkin, Jr. Wall Street Journal

The Wrong Way to Stop Civilian Terror Trials

Co-Authored with Lee A. Casey Trying captured al Qaeda, Taliban, or allied terrorists in United States civilian courts is a bad idea. The near-acquittal of Ahmed Ghailani—...

November 21, 2010 |

Holder’s Sham Trial

“By prosecuting Ahmed Ghailani in federal court,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a May 21, 2009, statement, “we will ensure that he finally answers for his alleged role in...

November 18, 2010 |

Justice Was Not Done

Critics of the Obama administration’s use of the civilian courts to try enemy combatants in wartime – and I am one – understandably point to Wednesday’s stunning verdict i...

November 17, 2010 |

Ghailani Verdict A Miscarriage of Justice

A New York jury delivered a stunning verdict Wednesday. Ahmed Ghailani, an al Qaeda terrorist who conspired to blow up American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, was acquitted of more than...

October 12, 2010 |

Some Pragmatism

‘Obama’s administration has adopted what it calls a flexible approach” to terrorism cases, says the Reuters dispatch. The president, Reuters elaborates, “favor[s] military...

October 6, 2010 |

Embassy-Bombing Trial in Jeopardy

Ahmed Ghailani has confessed to bombing the U.S. embassy in Tanzania twelve years ago. As he explained to the FBI in a series of 2007 interviews, he bought the TNT used in the explosion. He even...

February 2, 2010 | Wall Street Journal |

A Tale of Two Terrorists

The Obama administration's decision to read the Christmas Day bomber his Miranda rights has rightly come under withering criticism. Instead of a lengthy interrogation by officials with al Qa...