Detainee Pleads Ignorance in Bomb Plot

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Source: Associated Press

Detainee Pleads Ignorance in Bomb Plot

By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer

Friday, March 23, 2007

(03-23) 09:40 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, indicted for his role in the attack on the
American embassy in Tanzania, says he unknowingly delivered the
explosives used in the bombing, according to a Pentagon transcript
of his hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Ghailani said he did not know about the assault and was sorry for
the role he played, according to the transcript.

"It was without my knowledge what they were doing, but I helped
them," he said. "So I apologize to the United States government
for what I did. And I'm sorry for what happened to those families
who lost, who lost their friends and their beloved ones."

Ghailani, speaking through a military representative, said he was
first told the TNT he carried was soap for washing horses, then
later — after he delivered it — was told it was explosives "for
mining for diamonds in Somalia" and also for a Somali training
camp.

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