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In a bizarre turn of events, the Pentagon has decided to seek a war crimes tribunal to deal with a Tanzanian man involved in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa -- three years before our "war on terror" started. Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, who was arrested in Pakistan in 2004 and was detained in parts unknown overseas for about two years before being transferred to Guantanamo Bay, was indicted in the embassy bombings by a federal grand jury in New York City. Others involved in the bombings received life sentences without parole in October 2001. If a military tribunal convicts Ghailani, he could face the death penalty.
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