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Qaida media man convicted

A US military tribunal found Osama bin Laden's media secretary guilty of conspiring with Al-Qaida, soliciting murder and providing material support for terrorism in a verdict announced yesterday at Guantanamo.

Yemeni prisoner Ali Hamza al Bahlul is the second man to be convicted by a jury in the war crimes court at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He faces life in prison.