Embassy Bomber’s Lawyers Raise Speedy Trial Issue in Fight for Dismissal of Indictment
January 12, 2010,
by Mark Hamblett,
New York Law Journal
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202437861250
Telling Southern District of New York Judge Lewis A. Kaplan the indictment against Ghailani should be dismissed on speedy trial grounds, … Michael K. Bachrach said the government’s claim that national security demanded the extended detention and interrogation of Ghailani could not be justified…
He was a fugitive until his capture in 2004 and he was subjected to what Bachrach said was “torture” in violation of the Geneva Convention and other international law, as well as military regulations.