Bin Laden's ex-cook gets 14 years' jail
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August 13, 2010, Friday
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A UNITED States military tribunal on Wednesday sentenced Osama bin Laden's former cook to 14 years in prison, but he is expected to serve far less under a plea deal that remains secret.
The defendant, Sudanese captive Ibrahim al-Qosi, pleaded guilty last month in the war crimes court at Guantanamo Bay, the US navy's base off Cuba, to charges of conspiring with al-Qaida and providing material support for terrorism.
Qosi, a 50-year-old with a white beard, has been held at Guantanamo for more than eight years.
Military officials said it could be several months before his full plea agreement is made public. But the al-Arabiya television network based in Dubai quoted unidentified sources as saying it caps his sentence at two years.
Qosi acknowledged he knew al-Qaida was a terrorist group when he ran one of the kitchens in bin Laden's Star of Jihad compound in Afghanistan.
Qosi, who met bin Laden in Sudan and traveled with him to Afghanistan, also admitted helping the al-Qaida leader escape US forces in the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan.
He said he had no involvement in or prior knowledge of terrorist attacks.
Qosi was the first Guantanamo captive convicted under President Barack Obama's administration, whose efforts to shut down the detention camp have been blocked by Congress.
Qosi is the fourth captive convicted in the tribunals created to try non-US terrorism suspects after the al-Qaida attacks of September 11, 2001. Two served short sentences and were sent home to Australia and Yemen.
The only other convict remaining at Guantanamo is Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, a Yemeni who was an al-Qaida videographer. He is serving a life sentence for conspiring with al-Qaida and providing material support for terrorism.
The defendant, Sudanese captive Ibrahim al-Qosi, pleaded guilty last month in the war crimes court at Guantanamo Bay, the US navy's base off Cuba, to charges of conspiring with al-Qaida and providing material support for terrorism.
Qosi, a 50-year-old with a white beard, has been held at Guantanamo for more than eight years.
Military officials said it could be several months before his full plea agreement is made public. But the al-Arabiya television network based in Dubai quoted unidentified sources as saying it caps his sentence at two years.
Qosi acknowledged he knew al-Qaida was a terrorist group when he ran one of the kitchens in bin Laden's Star of Jihad compound in Afghanistan.
Qosi, who met bin Laden in Sudan and traveled with him to Afghanistan, also admitted helping the al-Qaida leader escape US forces in the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan.
He said he had no involvement in or prior knowledge of terrorist attacks.
Qosi was the first Guantanamo captive convicted under President Barack Obama's administration, whose efforts to shut down the detention camp have been blocked by Congress.
Qosi is the fourth captive convicted in the tribunals created to try non-US terrorism suspects after the al-Qaida attacks of September 11, 2001. Two served short sentences and were sent home to Australia and Yemen.
The only other convict remaining at Guantanamo is Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, a Yemeni who was an al-Qaida videographer. He is serving a life sentence for conspiring with al-Qaida and providing material support for terrorism.
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