Guantanamo jury convicts bin Laden's media man

[sabra]

Source: Reuters

MIAMI, Nov 3 (Reuters) - A U.S. military tribunal found Osama bin Laden's media secretary guilty of conspiring with al Qaeda, soliciting murder and providing material support for terrorism in a verdict announced on Monday at Guantanamo.

Yemeni prisoner Ali Hamza al Bahlul is the second man to be convicted by a jury in the war crimes court at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He faces life in prison.

The jury of nine U.S. military officers deliberated about four hours before reaching their verdict on Friday after a weeklong trial.

FBI interrogators testified that Bahlul scripted the videotaped wills of two Sept. 11 hijackers and made a two-hour al Qaeda campaign commercial designed to recruit suicide bombers.

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[rcrush]

1. The driver, the AV Club guy

I hope we get his drycleaner and his barber next!

[panader0]

2. Does this mean we get to imprison Dana Perino

when bush is convicted?

[Ian David]

3. Yay! First his driver, and now his advertising guy! Next we have to nail his stylist! n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

4. That guy SHOULD be locked up--

just as punishment for the lousy quality of the videos he put out.

[busybl]

6. that was my first thought too

[mike_c]

5. life in prison for making videotaped wills and propaganda....

That is absurd. It certainly isn't anything resembling justice.

[gratuitous]

7. All completely on the up and up

So very honorable and gentlemanly.

I'm so old, I remember when the United States denounced (at least publicly) kangaroo courts and secret evidence and wiretaps and torture.