US military jury convicts Bin Laden aide at Guantanamo trial
Ali Hamza al-Bahlul has been convicted by a US military jury at Guantanamo Bay detention centre
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Monday, 03, Nov 2008 04:51
A man accused of being an aide to Osama bin Laden has been convicted by a US military jury at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre.
The jury at the second Guantanamo war crimes trial convicted Ali Hamza al-Bahlul of 35 counts of conspiracy, solicitation to commit murder and providing material support to terrorism.
Reports suggest the 39-year-old Yemeni, who chose not to present a defence, showed no emotion when the verdict was read out at the military base on Cuba.
Al-Bahlul was convicted of 17 counts of conspiracy, eight counts of solicitation to commit murder and ten counts of providing material support for terrorism, each of which could bring life in prison.
The military jury also dismissed one count of conspiracy and one count of providing material support for terrorism.
The US military said that any work Al-Bahlul did for al-Qaida constituted a war crime as the group was a terrorist organisation.
The 39-year-old was brought to Guantanamo in 2002 and is the second prisoner to go on trial at the camp. In August Osama bin Laden's former driver Salim Hamdan was convicted and sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison.