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With the election season in full swing, and , you might not have heard that a major terrorism trial is about to commence in New York City.

Today, in the case against Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a man accused of involvement in the August 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Tanzania. Ghailani is the first ³Ò³Ü²¹²Ô³Ùá²Ô²¹³¾´Ç detainee to stand trial in U.S. federal court instead of the flawed military commissions.

Ghailani was captured in 2004, and while four of his co-conspirators were and in U.S. federal court, Ghailani caught the eye of the CIA, which held him for two years and subjected him to its "enhanced interrogation techniques" at a . (The same prison that held Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others accused of the 9/11 attacks). He was then sent to ³Ò³Ü²¹²Ô³Ùá²Ô²¹³¾´Ç in 2006; he was arraigned in the military commissions in 2008. But then the case was kicked out of the military commissions and sent to federal criminal court—a move President Obama announced himself in his .

The government considers Ghailani a "high-value detainee"—hence the torture and company he kept in Poland. "Advocacy" groups like Liz Cheney's Keep America Safe have claimed that trying "high-value detainees" like Ghailani in federal court .

But did NYC police commissioner Ray Kelly get that memo? —a far cry from the New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said would be needed to try the 9/11 defendants here.

(PDF) that in the eight-year period between September 11, 2001 to September 11, 2009, the government prosecuted a total of 337 terrorism cases against 807 people in federal criminal court. So Ghailani's case this week is just another drop in a very large, uneventful bucket.

So, high-profile terrorism detainee? Check. High-profile trial in New York? Check. End of the world? Not so much.