Ghailani guilty of one charge for 1998 US embassy bombs

The first Guantanamo detainee tried in a US civilian court has been found not guilty of all but one of 286 terror charges over the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Africa.

Tanzanian Ahmed Ghailani, 36, was found guilty of conspiracy to damage or destroy US property with explosives.
But he was cleared of many other counts including murder and murder conspiracy.
Ghailani faces a minimum of 20 years in prison. The verdict comes as the US weighs other civilian terror trials.
The BBC's Iain Mackenzie, in Washington, says the verdict will be seen as a huge blow to the Obama administration and its pledge to try Guantanamo suspects in civilian courts.
Officials will now be concidering how to proceed, but it could mean the controversial prison remains open for some time to come, our correspondent adds.
Witness barred The attacks on US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya killed 224 people and were one of al-Qaeda's first international shows of strength.
Four accused co-conspirators were convicted over the bombings in 2001 and sentenced to life in prison, but the Ghailani case concludes the first test of the Obama administration's decision to try some Guantanamo inmates in civilian courts rather than in military tribunals.

Nigerian military rescue 19 hostages in Niger Delta

Nigerian troops have rescued 19 hostages kidnapped by militants in the Niger Delta this month, officials say.

Two Americans, two Frenchmen, two Indonesians and a Canadian were freed along with 12 Nigerians in a land, air and sea assault, said officials.
Security sources told the BBC the freed hostages were euphoric.
The operation was the first successful rescue of foreign captives in the Delta without any of the hostages being killed in the process.
It is not clear exactly where the operation was carried out, nor whether any militants were killed or wounded.
The foreigners were captured on 8 November, when gunmen attacked an oil rig belonging to London-based Alfren PLC.
The eight Nigerians were seized on an ExxonMobil platform in Akwa Ibom state a week later, in an attack claimed by Mend, a military group operating in the Delta.
Canada and France have both expressed their relief that the citizens are free and thanked the Nigerian authorities for their efforts.
The BBC's Caroline Duffield in Lagos says the rescue operation marks a change in tactics by the Nigerian military, who worked in close co-operation with local contacts to free the captives.

Violence in the oil-rich Delta region has subsided since last year.
In the past, militants have cut the country's oil production by one-third, causing a spike in global oil prices.
The government and many oil militants reached a ceasefire agreement last year in exchange for cash payouts and job training - but a small faction of Mend has resumed the kidnappings.
There were always fears that a new generation of militants would emerge which would ignore the ceasefire, says our correspondent.
There are also signs the amnesty is faltering, following a firebombing attack on the home of presidential adviser Timi Alaibe last week, she adds.
Mend says it is fighting so that more of Nigeria's massive oil wealth is used to benefit the Niger Delta area which produces the oil.
But criminal gangs have taken advantage of the region's instability to make money from ransoms paid by oil companies, and stealing oil.