<div><p>The first detainee to be transferred from Guantanamo to New York for trial was to argue Monday in New York that his rights have been violated during five years of detention.</p><p>Lawyers for Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian accused of helping to plot bloody 1998 attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, argue that his constitutional rights have been violated because he was denied a speedy trial.</p><p>He was arrested in 2004 and held in secret CIA prisons until being transferred to the controversial Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, US base. He says he suffered "abhorrent" abuse during interrogations, according to a court filing.</p><p>Ghailani, allegedly a former cook and bodyguard to Osama bin Laden, pleaded not guilty to federal conspiracy charges in June in New York.</p><p>The 1998 US embassy attacks killed 224 people and injured more than 5,000.</p><p>His case is a test of President Barack Obama's decision to close Guantanamo and end years of shadowy legal procedures against terrorism suspects.</p><p>New York is due to host the trial of five men accused of plotting the September 11, 2001 attacks against the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon outside Washington.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=66724532&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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