In his long-shot bid to keep the military lawyers assigned to him at Guantanamo Bay, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, an accused al-Qaida conspirator, has presented Southern District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan with a unique issue.
Mr. Ghailani, who was moved from the Guantanamo Bay detention center to New York in June to stand trial for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, insists that he has the right to keep Marine Colonel Jeffrey P. Colwell and Air Force Major Richard B. Reiter on his legal team.
