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NEW YORK — The first Guantanamo Bay detainee to face trial in a civilian court in the United States has said he would prefer to be tried before a military tribunal, a psychologist testified Tuesday.
Katherine Porterfield said Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani told her during the 21 hours she spent with him since he was brought to the United States from Guantanamo Bay last year that he believed he would get a fairer trial before a military court, where soldiers would decide his fate.
She said he believed he was better off in the “military context, where members of the jury were in the military, whereas a jury of citizens will see him from the start as a terrorist.”
