US President Barack Obama confirmed Today that a Guantanamo Bay detainee accused of participating in the al-Qaeda bombings of two US embassies in Africa will be tried in the United States, according to dpa. Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani would be the first Guantanamo detainee to be tried in the United States. He will be taken to a federal court in New York. He has already been indicted in the deaths of more than 200 people, including mostly local Africans and 12 US citizens, in the bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. "Preventing this detainee from coming to our shores would prevent his trial and conviction," Obama said in a major national security address in Washington. "And after over a decade, it is time to finally see that justice is served, and that is what we intend to do." Obama was discussing his plans to close Guantanamo by January when he announced the criminal proceedings against Ghailani.