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| US jury convicts 'Bin Laden aide' | US jury convicts 'Bin Laden aide' |
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| A man accused of being Osama Bin Laden's media secretary has been convicted by a US military jury at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre. | A man accused of being Osama Bin Laden's media secretary has been convicted by a US military jury at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre. |
| Ali Hamza al-Bahlul showed no emotion as he was found guilty of conspiracy, solicitation to commit murder and making propaganda videos for al-Qaeda. | |
| The 39-year-old Yemeni faces a possible life sentence. He refused to present a defence during the trial. | The 39-year-old Yemeni faces a possible life sentence. He refused to present a defence during the trial. |
| It is the second war crimes case to be tried at Guantanamo Bay. | It is the second war crimes case to be tried at Guantanamo Bay. |
| The jury of nine US military officers announced their verdict at the American military base in Cuba. | The jury of nine US military officers announced their verdict at the American military base in Cuba. |
| Their decision was reached at the end of last week but has only just been made public. | |
| Bahlul, who was brought to Guantanamo in 2002, sat calmly as the decision was read out. | |
| Boycott | |
| Prosecutors say he acknowledged to interrogators that he was media chief for al-Qaeda and made propaganda videos for Bin Laden designed to recruit suicide bombers. | |
| The American military said any work Bahlul did for al-Qaeda was by definition a war crime because the group was a terrorist organisation. | The American military said any work Bahlul did for al-Qaeda was by definition a war crime because the group was a terrorist organisation. |
| Speaking through an Arabic translator, Bahlul told the judge, Air Force Col Ronald Gregory, that he would not make a statement before he is sentenced. | |
| "Go ahead with your trial and I will continue with my boycott. You do whatever you want. You have orders from the politicians, and I will not accept it," AP news agency quoted Bahlul as saying. | |
| He is the second prisoner to face a war crimes trial under a specially-created system of military commissions that civil rights activists and lawyers have criticised as lacking full protection of defendants' rights. | |
| In the first such trial, Salim Hamdan, Osama Bin Laden's former driver, was convicted in August and sentenced to five-and-a-half years in jail. |