Evidence Deadline Set in Airman’s Spy Case
Amid defense complaints that no case had been made against their client, a judge gave prosecutors a Feb. 25 deadline to present key evidence against a Syrian American airman accused of spying while working as a translator at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Senior Airman Ahmad I. Al-Halabi, who faces life in prison if convicted, has been charged with espionage related to his work with terror suspects at the base. He has denied the charges.
His lawyers complained after the arraignment hearing at Travis Air Force Base that the prosecutor has hidden a weak case by classifying the evidence.
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