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GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Osama bin Laden's propagandist was convicted of war crimes Monday by a military jury at Guantanamo Bay Navy Base, Cuba.
Ali Hamza al-Bahlul of Yemen displayed no visible reaction as the jury announced the guilty verdicts on charges of conspiracy, providing material support for terror and solicitation to murder, the Miami Herald reported.
Bahlul declined to make a presentencing statement to the jury. He was expected to be sentenced later Monday.
''Go ahead with your trial. And I will continue with my boycott. Do whatever you want,'' Bahlul said.
The trial didn't offer any evidence that Bahlul fired a shot at Americans while he was in Afghanistan from 1999 to 2001. U.S. prosecutors, however, argued that Bahlul committed the three war crimes by creating a video that wove bin Laden speeches with Muslim bloodshed and news footage of the aftermath of the October 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole.
He is the second detainee among the 255 interred at Guantanamo Bay convicted of war crimes before the special court President George Bush ordered established after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. He joins bin Laden's driver in a convict's corridor at the camp.
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