Lawyers for an accused al Qaida conspirator and Osama bin Laden-son-in-law Sulaiman Abu Ghayth say there may be a second man being held at Guantanamo Bay with a similar name and a similar background to their client.
In a letter to trial Judge Lewis Kaplan (See Profile) filed late Wednesday, attorney Zoe Dolan said defense lawyers had just been told there is an individual at Guantanamo whose name is Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghityh Sulayman, and whose circumstances present enough similarities to the government’s case against her client as to require dismissal of the indictment. Dolan wrote, “nothing provided by the government in motion practice or in discovery indicates the existence of [Sulayman] the Other Individual.”
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