(New York Times) — The trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani has attracted intense interest as a test of the Obama administration’s strategy to try Guantánamodetainees in civilian court. But few have as much personal connection to the case as the group of onlookers who fill several rows of the Manhattan courtroom. Some are family members of those who died in Al Qaeda’s 1998 bombings of the United States Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; others worked in the embassies at the time.
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