Is the Cole finally getting justice?

gog8tors

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Wasn't this a clue to what was coming?

http://www.military.com/news/article/cole-trial-to-be-death-penalty-case.html?ESRC=army.nl

Cole Trial to be Death Penalty Case
September 29, 2011
Associated Press

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A Pentagon legal official has approved charges that carry a possible death penalty for a Guantanamo prisoner accused of planning the attack on the USS Cole, the U.S. Defense Department said Wednesday.

Abd al-Nashiri would face charges that include murder in violation of the law of war for allegedly planning the attack that killed 17 sailors and wounded 40 while the Navy destroyer was stopping in Yemen on Oct. 12, 2000. The U.S. must now bring him before a judge within 30 days for his arraignment before a military judge at the U.S. base in Cuba.

This would be the first death-penalty war crimes trial for a prisoner at Guantanamo under President Barack Obama, who had pledged to close the detention center but ran into Congressional opposition to moving detainees to the U.S.

A Saudi of Yemeni descent, al-Nashiri was captured in Dubai in November 2002 and flown to a CIA prison in Afghanistan known as Salt Pit before being moved to another clandestine CIA facility in Thailand, where he was waterboarded and threatened with a power drill during interrogation, according to a report by the CIA's inspector general that was released in 2009.

His Pentagon-appointed lawyer, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Stephen Reyes, said the treatment amounted to torture and he had asked the Convening Authority to drop the charges or at least remove the potential death penalty.
 
I was thinking that they had been forgotten. I noticed that there has been no blurbs any where about this. I might have to go and stir the pot somewhere. :Ninja
 
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