November 03, 2008

al-Qaeda Media Emir Convicted

Via Reuters:

MIAMI (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...

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