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| US Brings First Charges Against Guantanamo Inmates |
| By Reuters |
| Published: 03/01/2004 |
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The United States has charged two suspected al Qaeda members with conspiracy to commit war crimes, the first Guantanamo Bay prisoners to face criminal charges, the Pentagon said last Tuesday. The Defense Department said Ali Hamza Ahmed Sulayman al Bahlul of Yemen and Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi of Sudan were charged on Feb. 21 with a single count each and will be brought to trial before a military tribunal. Both men have been locked up for two years at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where roughly 650 foreign terrorism suspects are imprisoned. Human rights and legal activists have criticized the United States for holding prisoners at the Guantanamo base without charges, while excoriating the rules established for the military tribunal trials as rigged to result in convictions. The Pentagon has promised "full and fair" trials. Pentagon spokesman Maj. John Smith said Pentagon prosecutors do not plan to seek the death penalty against either man if convicted, but said their possible penalty could include anything up to life in prison. In a statement, the Pentagon described al Qosi as a key al Qaeda accountant and weapons smuggler who was "a longtime assistant and associate of bin Laden dating back to the time when bin Laden lived in Sudan." The Pentagon identified al Bahlul as a "key al Qaeda propagandist who produced videos glorifying the murder of Americans to recruit, inspire and motivate other al Qaeda members" to attack Americans, the United States and other countries. The Pentagon said both men have served as personal bodyguards for bin Laden, the Saudi-born al Qaeda leader whom the United States holds responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America. |
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