bill, it looks like the prosecution lost this case before the trial even got underway. during the jury selection, the judge made a ruling, and said that the government s star witness, a man named hussein abibi, was not going to be allowed to testify. the judge ruled that the prosecution only knew about his existence because they say that name was learned through coercive questioning of ghailani when he was in cia customer ce custody and had he been allowed to testify, what aibi abibi would have told the court is he sold the defendant the explosives that were used to phro e up the embassy. that information to blow up the embassy, that information was never heard in court and the defense during the trial simply told the jury over and over again their client was a dupe who may have helped al-qaeda operatives but had no idea what the consequences would be. that argument may have been a lot more difficult to make if the jury had heard ghailani had purchased the explosives. bill: wow.