Bin Laden evidence allowed at detainee’s NYC trial

October 1, 2010 at 10:57a.m.

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City judge will allow jurors to see Osama bin Laden’s directives that his followers kill Americans.

Trial is supposed to start next week in Manhattan for the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to face a civilian court. Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan said Friday that the trial might be delayed a few days if he rules a key prosecution witness cannot testify and prosecutors want to immediately appeal.

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani is charged with conspiracy in the deadly bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998. Ghailani is accused of being a bomb maker and aide to bin Laden.