Leading Republicans have demanded that Barack Obama scrap plans to try the organisers of the 9/11 attacks in civilian courts after a New York jury acquitted an alleged terrorist of more than 200 murder charges over al-Qaida's bombing of US embassies in east Africa. Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani's conviction on the sole charge of conspiracy to destroy government property in the 1998 bombings has reignited
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