The judge will begin this morning questioning hundreds of prospective jurors in the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani for his alleged role in the 1998 al-Qaida bombing of two U.S. embassies in East Africa that killed 224 people and wounded thousands.
Roughly 1,000 people were asked last week to complete questionnaires that explored, among other matters, their attitudes toward the detention of suspected terrorists and their feelings about Islam and Muslims. Potential jurors will be brought before the court in waves of 60 today and tomorrow, where they will be questioned by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan and excused for either cause or for hardship.
