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Will the accused USS Cole bomber, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, be convicted?

Will the accused USS Cole bomber, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, be convicted?

Asked by: Super Userkruijs in Politics » United States
Settled on 03/27/2024 13:01 Settled by Super UserJosef Biesenberger
Winning option:Yes https://www.nytimes.com/article/uss-cole-bombing-trial.html

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The arraignment of the defendant, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, marked the beginning of the highest profile military commission trial since the Bush administration created the system after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Mr. Nashiri, an accused Al Qaeda leader, could be executed if he is convicted, in what would be a first for the Guantánamo tribunals.

Mr. Nashiri put off pleading guilty or not guilty to a series of charges against him — including murder in violation of the laws of war and conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism — related to the Cole bombing, a plot to attack another American warship and an attack against a French supertanker.

The military, which is trying to showcase its reforms to the tribunals system, broadcast a live feed of the proceedings to a theater here on the Army base at Fort Meade, Md.

The bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, as it was moored in a harbor off Aden, Yemen, killed 17 sailors.

Mr. Nashiri’s case is being closely watched. His is the first new case to move forward under President Obama, who shut down the Bush administration’s tribunals in one of his first acts after taking office.

He is also the first “high-value” detainee — a senior terrorism suspect who was held for a time by the C.I.A. at a “black site” prison and subjected to what the agency called “enhanced interrogation techniques” — to receive a trial at Guantánamo. For that reason, his case is also seen as a forerunner to the planned prosecution of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other accused conspirators in the Sept. 11 attacks.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/us/abd-al-rahim-al-nashiri-arraigned-in-uss-cole-bombing.html?_r=1

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   Super Userkruijs

he trial for a Saudi man accused of masterminding the 2000 attack on the USS Cole, which killed 17 sailors, will begin in September 2014, said a ruling published Tuesday.

Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri faces the death penalty if convicted of charges stemming from the attack on the Cole and another on the French oil tanker MV Limburg in 2002, which left one person dead.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h4HA22BSKAupOxBUnKD6g1TpV6TA?docId=CNG.ad79dba89251f1fb3b7da92de69cb036.181&hl=en

   Super Userkruijs

A military judge invoked the potential for “grave damage to national security” on Thursday and announced that he will exclude both the public and the accused Saudi Arabian terrorist from his pre-trial hearing in the USS Cole bombing death-penalty case — the first closed session of the Barack Obama war court.

The subject of the hearing, to be argued at 9 a.m. Friday, is a mystery. It appears on the war court docket with the word CLASSIFIED in red, but no name.

Nashiri, a former millionaire from Mecca, has been described as Osama bin Laden’s chief of Arabian Gulf operations.

He is accused of engineering al-Qaida’s October 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole warship off Yemen. Seventeen sailors were killed in the attack, and the prosecutor proposes to execute Nashiri, if he’s convicted.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/13/3450019/guantanamo-judge-orders-first.html

   Super Userkruijs

Pretrial hearings for an alleged al Qaeda chieftain were halted for at least two months on Tuesday while doctors assess whether he is mentally fit to stand trial at Guantanamo on charges of orchestrating a deadly attack on a U.S. warship.

Lawyers for Saudi defendant Abd al Rahim al Nashiri have never claimed he is mentally incompetent now or that he was when the USS Cole was bombed off Yemen in 2000. But once they said he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder brought on by torture in secret CIA prisons, prosecutors said they were bound by the trial rules to ask that he undergo a mental competency exam.

http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/Legal/News/2013/02_-_February/Mental_health_issue_stalls_hearings_for_USS_Cole_bomb_suspect/

   Super Userkruijs

Defense lawyers for the main suspect in the USS Cole bombing said Thursday they have requested a delay for their client's next court appearance so he can be examined for evidence of physical abuse while in detention.

"We are asking for a continuance so that our client can be examined by experts concerning the effects of torture who have been authorized to examine him," said Rick Kammen, an attorney for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged mastermind of the deadly October 2000 attack.

Nashiri, allegedly an associate of late Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has been in US custody since 2002.

His defense attorneys, who claim he has been mistreated during his incarceration by the United States, said psychological and physical tests on their client cannot be completed before his next hearing date, set for October 23.

"We seek a delay of up to three months," Kammen told AFP.

http://www.expatica.com/fr/news/french-news/defense-seeks-postponement-of-uss-cole-hearing_245484.html

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