Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, was quoted in a New York Times article about a new trial granted by a federal judge to a man convicted of providing support to Al Qaeda.
A federal judge in Manhattan has taken the unusual step of granting a new trial to a Pakistani man convicted more than a decade ago of providing support to Al Qaeda, citing years-old statements by terrorism detainees at the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, wartime prison who called his guilt into question.
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The Pakistani man, Uzair Paracha, who was 23 and living in Brooklyn when he was charged in 2003. Prosecutors said he had agreed to help an operative for Al Qaeda fraudulently obtain immigration documents to re-enter the United States and carry out a terrorist attack.
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Karen J. Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law, who has written about terrorism and the legal system, said, “It’s fascinating that Guantánamo has yielded information that could be exculpatory for a retrial” in civilian court.
Mr. Paracha’s lawyer, Joshua L. Dratel (who has coedited two books with Ms. Greenberg), said he was “thrilled with the opinion because it recognizes the important impact that these potential witnesses would have had on the case.”
