[wvns] Defense seeks foreign-born experts for 9/11 case

Defense seeks foreign-born experts for 9/11 case
By CAROL ROSENBERG - crosenberg@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1145206.html

Alleged 9/11 co-conspirator Ramzi bin al Shibh, now approved to face a death-penalty charges trial at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba

ASSOCIATED PRESS GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- In seeking to examine whether accused 9/11lieutenant Ramzi bin al Shibh is sane, Pentagon defense attorneys are turning toan Israeli-American and Cuban American exile as mental health experts.

The Pentagon's supervisor of the war court, Susan J. Crawford, has so farrefused to fund one of the consultants, Ruben C. Gur. The other, Xavier Amador,has so far been banned from talking to bin al Shibh in the high-profile casethat seeks the death penalty for five men accused as co-conspirators in theSept. 11, 2001 attacks.So defense lawyers were seeking a court order for both in motions beingargued at the military commissions on Thursday. No immediate ruling wasexpected.

Amador, a Cuban American clinical psychologist, has testified as an expert inthe Unabomber and Zacarias Moussaoui cases. He immigrated to the United Statesin the early 1960s.Gur, a psychologist, is a former Israeli soldier and leading expert inneuroimaging, the study of CT scans for signs of mental illness.

He works at the Brain Behavior Lab at the Department of Psychiatry at theUniversity of Pennsylvania, served in the Israeli Army from 1965 to 1967 andacquired his advanced degrees at the University of Michigan.

Navy Cmdr. Suzanne Lachelier, bin al Shibh's Pentagon appointed defenselawyer, appealed to the case judge to fund the consultants in arguments thatwere partially censored on Thursday.

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