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WASHINGTON, July 7, 2010 – A Sudanese man pleaded guilty in a military commission today to conspiracy and providing material support to al-Qaida in the five years leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks against the United States. Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi, 50, pleaded guilty at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to two charges for his support to al-Qaida and for conspiring to commit terrorism from August 1996 until his capture in December 2001. The conviction marks the first case prosecuted under the Obama administration and the Military Commissions Act of 2009, which the president signed in October....

A SUSPECTED al-Qaeda operative was released from jail in Germany yesterday after the country’s highest court blocked his extradition to Spain on a new EU arrest warrant. The Federal Constitutional Court ruled that Mamoun Darkazanli, a Syrian-German businessman, was entitled to protection under a law which says that German citizens cannot be extradited for trial abroad. The suspect’s basic rights had to be guaranteed, even when the extradition request came from a fellow EU country, the court said. Mr Darkazanli, 46, was released from custody in Hamburg a few hours later. The ruling appears to deal a severe blow to...