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Embassy Bombing Widow Calls for Trial of Gitmo Prisoner in Civilian Court

HeadlineApr 02, 2008

The widow of a victim of the 1998 US embassy bombing in Kenya is calling for trying an alleged participant in civilian court rather than by military commission at Guantanamo Bay. Susan Hirsch, a professor at George Mason University, was waiting outside the embassy for her husband, Abdurahman Abdalla, when the bombers struck. Guantanamo prisoner Ahmad Ghailani was accused this week of gathering the parts used for the bomb. Hirsch says she wants to see Ghailani tried in civilian court. She said, “These commissions have been fraught with challenges…from coerced evidence to secret evidence.”

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