A witness who sold Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani the explosives used in the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Tanzania said yesterday he was not coerced into testifying against Mr. Ghailani. Hussein Abebe, through a Swahili interpreter, told Southern District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan that he was in New York to voluntarily testify against Mr. Ghailani because “a lot of people in the world know [I sold the explosives]. I am coming to clear my heart.”
The testimony came on the second day of a hearing to determine whether Mr. Abebe’s testimony should be allowed because it was sufficiently attenuated from the manner in which the authorities learned of the identity and whereabouts of Mr. Abebe—through harsh interrogation techniques applied to Mr. Ghailani by the CIA.
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