Ahmed Ghailani, the first Guantánamo detainee to be tried in a civilian court, was sentenced to life in

prison without parole for his role in the 1998 al-Qaeda bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. Upon sentencing Ghailani, who was convicted Nov. 17 of conspiracy to destroy government buildings, the

judge said anything Ghailani suffered at the hands of the CIA and other interrogators--he was allegedly

tortured--"pales in comparison to the suffering and the horror" he caused. The 1998 attacks in Dar es

Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi killed 224 people and wounded thousands more.