contaminated and martha, one of the highlights yesterday was when the defense attorney quoted the grateful dead s jer yeah garcia saying that ahmed ghailani had been set up like a bowling pin, martha. martha: so the government s prosecutor, they re listening to all of this, how did they come back at what he s saying about ghailani? the prosecution in its rebuttal, their lost ward last word before the jury, said that ghailani is quoting now a mass murderer and they hammered away at one key point. twenty-four hours, they said, before the twin embassy blasts took place, ghailani got on a plane and flew to pakistan, leaving behind his life in tanzania. the prosecution further said even when news of the bombing spread around the world, this man who is now described as a dupe never told authorities that he helped purchase the truck and the supplies used to blow up the embassy.
set up like a quote bowling pin. shepard: investigators say this guy is a cold blooded killer. indeed they do. in fact they go much further than that they say is he a mass murderer. they also say he is anything but a dupe. they say he knew what he was doing every single step of the way. they hammered away at one key point today that the defense had a very difficult time explaining. 24 hours before the twin bombs went off in after from can afri. he got on a plane to pakistan leaving behind his jobs, his friends, and his family. the defense has a tough time explaining that they would only explain there was no witness to say that he was, in fact, on that plane. the prosecution says isn t dupes don t flee. shepard? shepard: david lee miller live in new york city, thank you. there is a brand new development today in the case of the so-called torture tapes there were nearly 100 videos that were said to show u.s. interrogators waterboarding suspected al qaeda operatives. one of the cia
terrorist ahmed ghailani is a cold blooded killer responsible for the deadly 1998 bombs of two u.s. embassies in africa where 12 americans lost their lives. ghailani s attorney says his client was a fall guy for al-qaeda operatives. david lee miller is covering this trial for us in lower manhattan. david lee, tell me more about what the defense has to say in this trial. reporter: yesterday, martha, the defense completed its closing arguments and ghailani s defense lawyer described him as a kid, a naive dupe, who really just fell in with the wrong people. yes, the defense says, he helped purchase a truck, yes, he helped purchase asset lien and oxygen tanks but ghailani had no idea items idea the items were going to be used to make a bomb to blow up embassies in tanzania, the defense also says the forensic evidence in this case is not to be trusted because proper procedures were not filed and much of the evidence is
home, investigators found a detonator gap and explosive residue that linked him to the crime. and he pointed at ghailani and looked at jury, this is on ghailani, this is al-qaeda, this is a terrorist, this is a killer. and with that, the court ended yesterday, martha. it is going to be getting underway in a few moments time. martha: pretty powerful stuff, david lee. the defense did not call a single witness in this case, yet, they say their client is not get. what not guilty. what do you expect in closing arguments on his behalf? this is going to be a head scraffer. that s right, the defense case lasted less than half an hour. how much are they going to say today in closing arguments is not entirely clear. what we believe they will say based on the opening statements is that ghailani was essentially a dupe, he was very young, he was immature, anxious to please, he was a follower, he spent time with al-qaeda members, but he was not one of them, and yesterday, martha, i
presenting their entire case during the trial, in fact, the defense during the trial did not present a single witness. the defense spoke for less than half an hour, presenting a number of stipulations with the government. nevertheless, defense attorney for ahmed ghailani is speaking at great length to describe his client, quoting him now as nothing more than a dupe. he says that the government provided insufficient evidence, woefully insufficient evidence and went on to tell the jury, quoting him now, there is one question for the jury to decide, to make it easy for you, did he know and he went on to say no, ahmed did not know, he did not know that the people he was associating with and helping to provide trust and explosives to object members of al-qaeda, his client was a dupe and repeatedly, jenna, throughout the morning, he referred to him as a kid. jenna. jenna: all right, david, well, the jury certainly has