Court upholds conviction of al-Qaeda's media chief
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A military court upheld the conviction and life sentence of a Guantanamo detainee from Yemen who served as Osama bin Laden's media specialist. Ali Hamza al-Bahlul was convicted in November 2008 of 35 counts of conspiracy, solicitation to commit murder and providing material support for terrorism.
But Bahlul, who initially represented himself and pleaded not guilty, argued that his conviction should be reversed in part because none of the charges against him constituted war crimes that could be prosecuted by a military commission. The US Court of Military Commission Review disagreed on all counts in only its second review of a conviction. (AP)
