NEW YORK, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- The case of a man accused in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam,Tanzania, remains in the hands of a jury in New York.
Deliberations in the case against Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, who faces charges of conspiracy and murder, were to resume Monday, CNN reported. The bombings killed 224 people, including a dozen Americans, and injured thousands of others.
In his closing argument, Ghailani's defense attorney told the jury Tuesday his client was a pawn of al-Qaida, which claimed responsibility. The defense rested without calling any witnesses.
The prosecution accused Ghailani, 36, of mass murder, saying the Tanzanian played a critical role in securing materials and the truck that carried the bomb in Tanzania.
Ghailani is the first detainee from the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be tried in civilian court. He was captured in Pakistan in 2004, moved to Guantanamo in 2006, then transferred to a federal prison in New York in 2009.
