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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (7) Save Email Print Reprints Most Popular Most Shared Tired Gay succumbs to Dix in 200 meters 03 Jul 2010 French heiress affair is half drama, half farce 7:30am EDT China won't dump U.S. Treasuries or pile into gold 8:06am EDT BP boss in MidEast talks while more progress on relief well | Video 3:56pm EDT Viagra-popping seniors lead the pack for STDs 06 Jul 2010 Germans shell-shocked by oracle octopus 06 Jul 2010 Gold recovers as equities, euro also rise 4:31pm EDT BP shares soar as spill spreads 06 Jul 2010 Wall Street rallies on earnings optimism 4:44pm EDT Germany and Spain in fight for final 4:12pm EDT Tired Gay succumbs to Dix in 200 meters 03 Jul 2010 Germans shell-shocked by oracle octopus 06 Jul 2010 China won't dump U.S. Treasuries or pile into gold 8:06am EDT Borders sees new e-bookstore taking share 1:58pm EDT Germany and Spain in fight for final 4:12pm EDT Obama administration sues Arizona over immigration law 06 Jul 2010 Viagra-popping seniors lead the pack for STDs 06 Jul 2010 Prechter says Dow could fall to 1,000 06 Jul 2010 BP boss in MidEast talks while more progress on relief well | Video 3:56pm EDT U.S.-Russia may seek spy swap to free agents 3:39pm EDT Bin Laden's cook pleads guilty at Guantanamo Digg This Tweet This Share on LinkedIn Share on Facebook Related News US unseals new charges against 5 in New York plot 12:18pm EDT A Bollywood debut for Osama bin Laden 5:38am EDT Guantanamo suspect ok to stand trial: U.S. judge Thu, Jul 1 2010 Trial opens for accused NY airport bomb plotters Wed, Jun 30 2010 Al Jazeera launches free TV service in Britain Wed, Jun 30 2010 Related Topics World » Afghanistan And Pakistan » In this photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin, reviewed by the U.S. military, defendant Ibrahim al-Qosi (L) sits with a member of his defense team inside the courthouse for the U.S. war crimes commission, at the Camp Justice compound, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, July 15, 2009. Credit: Reuters/Janet Hamlin/Pool By Jane Sutton MIAMI | Wed Jul 7, 2010 4:42pm EDT MIAMI (Reuters) - A Sudanese prisoner accused of guarding Osama bin Laden and helping him escape U.S. forces in Afghanistan pleaded guilty at Guantanamo on Wednesday, giving the Obama administration its first conviction in the controversial war crimes court. Ibrahim al Qosi pleaded guilty to conspiring with al Qaeda and providing material support for terrorism, court spokesman Joe DellaVedova said. Qosi, who ran the kitchen and provided supplies at Bin Laden's Star of Jihad compound in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, has been held at Guantanamo for more than eight years. His sentence could range from no additional time to life imprisonment, DellaVedova said by phone from the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A panel of U.S. military officers will assemble at Guantanamo to hear evidence and deliberate his sentence on August 9. The terms of his plea agreement were not disclosed but it was expected to contain some limit on his sentence. Qosi, 50, is only the fourth captive convicted in the controversial military tribunals since the Guantanamo detention camp was opened to hold terrorism suspects in January 2002. Two were sent home to Australia and Yemen after serving brief sentences. One other, al Qaeda videographer Ali Hamza al Bahlul of Yemen, remains at Guantanamo serving a life term for the same two charges Qosi pleaded guilty to. Shortly after taking office, President Barack Obama signed an order to close the detention camp by January 2009, and said suspected terrorists should be tried in the U.S. courts or in regular courts-martial. But his efforts to shut down the camp have been stymied by Congress and his administration opted to tweak the Guantanamo court system rather than scrap it. The detention camp still holds 181 prisoners. The Obama administration plans to try about three dozen of them either at Guantanamo or in U.S. federal courts, including five accused of plotting the September 11 attacks, while holding 48 others indefinitely and repatriating or resettling the rest. WAIVED APPEAL Qosi was charged by the U.S. military with acting as bin Laden's driver and bodyguard and helping him escape to the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan after the U.S.-led invasion in 2001. He was also part of an al Qaeda mortar crew. Qosi admitted under oath that he provided logistical support for al Qaeda with the full knowledge that it was a terrorist group, DellaVedova said. "He admitted he engaged in hostilities against the United States in violation of the laws of war," DellaVedova said. "Al Qosi said under oath that he intentionally supported al Qaeda in hostilities against the United States since at least 1996, when Osama bin Laden issued an order urging followers to commit acts of terrorism against the United States." Qosi was a bookkeeper in his native Khartoum, where he first met bin Laden, and traveled with him to Afghanistan when the al Qaeda leader moved his operations there in 1996. He was captured in Afghanistan in December 2001 and first charged in the Guantanamo court system known as military commissions in 2004. The charge of providing material support for terrorism has not traditionally been a violation of the laws of war. Congress retroactively made it one in 2006, and the Obama administration tried unsuccessfully to persuade lawmakers to drop it from the list of crimes triable by military commission when it revised the law underpinning the Guantanamo trials in 2009. Top administration lawyers testified before Congress last year that any conviction on that charge was likely to be overturned by the appellate courts. But Qosi waived his right to appeal by pleading guilty, said Navy Captain David Iglesias, one of the prosecutors handling other Guantanamo cases. "It's still one of the enumerated acts under the Military Commissions Act of 2009," Iglesias said "We charged him with it, he pleaded guilty to it." Human rights groups said Qosi's conviction was hardly a validation for the Guantanamo court. "In fact Mr. al Qosi's case is a textbook example of the inability of the military commission system -- now in its third incarnation -- to achieve swift justice," said Daphne Eviatar of Human Rights First. "The case has dragged on for more than six years without a trial. By the time he entered his guilty plea today, the commission still hadn't decided whether it even has jurisdiction over him." (Editing by Cynthia Osterman) World Afghanistan And Pakistan Comments See All Comments (7) | Post Comment Jul 07, 2010 1:27pm EDT Hitler’s cook and driver were not prosecuted. USA imprisoning this guy is another sign of the downfall of this once great country. coinageboy Report As Abusive Jul 07, 2010 1:58pm EDT timed served??? r they kidding? life in prision? take him out and shoot him!! r country is really getting too easy, how long have we been looking for bin laden?–and this guy helped him to get away??? please-enough is enough, bring everyone home and let these countries kill each other! pjgatorjg Report As Abusive Jul 07, 2010 2:02pm EDT Every conviction in this farce of justice is another reason our enemies have to hate us and another reason our friends have to distance themselves from us. jrtonyday Report As Abusive Jul 07, 2010 2:20pm EDT I just wonder how torture did he have to undergo before they dragged that “confession” out of him.Those filthy creeps should be indicted and brought to justice and that’s that!I only wish to heaven that these tortures cease as they give this country a very bad name. majorityofone Report As Abusive Jul 07, 2010 3:26pm EDT The analogy between Hitler’s staff and bin Laden’s staff are not at all apt. However corrupt and unfair the German elections were that gave Hitler his control of the state, people who worked for him may not have had much of a choice. I doubt a German would have had an easy time refusing the position. No one who works for bin Laden risks loosing citizenship or property rights or even imprisonment for refusing to do so. There is still some question whether the land lady who owned the building where John Wilkes Booth and his co conspirators met, was really an accomplice to the plans. But she was hung with those who survived the capture. The Doctor who treated Booth was also hung. In my opinion Dr. Mudd should never have been hung because it was his sworn duty to treat the sick. It was not his job, nor was it in his competence, to act as the man’s judge, jury and executioner. paintcan Report As Abusive Jul 07, 2010 3:34pm EDT One more thing. no one is talking about executing any of these people. But the cook is an accomplice to a self admitted and very public mastermind of an act of mass murder. But all of this is side stepping the question of whether or not the man should be tried in Guantanamo at all. paintcan Report As Abusive Jul 07, 2010 4:06pm EDT Whoever thought of bringing, or holding a civilian trial(Obama’s doing?) to any of these suspected terrorists on American mainland has got to be nuts. They all should be held and tried at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in a military court. That way, should any of them somehow escape, they can’t hurt any of our civilians. God Bless America! Riggins44 Report As Abusive See All Comments (7) Add a Comment *We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language or appear to be spam and review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. 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