Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi, a Sudanese citizen who had been charged with the offense of hiding Bin Laden and helped him run away from U.S. forces in Afghanistan pleaded guilty at the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay. The conviction that came on Wednesday is Obama administration’s first conviction in the controversial court set up for trials regarding war crimes.
According to Joe Della Vedova, a spokesman at Guantanamo Bay, the man pleaded guilty to providing material support to al-Qaeda and conspiring with the terrorist organization.
Qosi, who was in-charge of the kitchen at Bin Laden’s compound near Jalalabad, Afghanistan, has been in custody for the past eight years. He could face a sentence ranging from no additional time at the prison to life imprisonment.
Qosi’s sentence would be decided by a panel of U.S. Military Officers on August 9, after taking into account the evidence against him. He is the fourth prisoner to be convicted since the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay started functioning in January 2002.
The Guantanamo detention camp was ordered to be shut down by President Obama on January 2010, but was not shut down due to the Congress viewpoint. At present the detention camp holds 181 prisoners. The Obama administration has thought of trying 36 of these prisoners in U.S. courts, while holding 48 others indefinitely and repatriating or resettling the rest.
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