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FILE -- An undated file photo provided by the U.S. District Attorney's office shows Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani. Ghailani arrived in New York early Tuesday June 9, 2009, and is the first Guantanamo detainee brought to the United States. (AP Photo/File)
FILE -- An undated file photo provided by the U.S. District Attorney's office shows Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani. Ghailani arrived in New York early Tuesday June 9, 2009, and is the first Guantanamo detainee brought to the United States. (AP Photo/File) (Ho - AP)

The transfer of Ahmed Ghailani to face capital charges in the 1998 East Africa bombings marked the first time a detainee who is not an American citizen has been brought from the prison in Cuba to the United States. Ghailani, appearing briefly in U.S. District Court in Manhattan yesterday, pleaded not guilty to multiple charges in connection with the blasts at the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. Those attacks killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.

A former Islamic cleric, Ghailani was captured after a 10-hour shootout in the Pakistani city of Gujrat in July 2004. He was taken to a secret CIA prison before he and 13 other "high-value" detainees