Law: The USS Cole suspect against military tribunal at Guantanamo

Jumat, 30 September 2011

The USS Cole suspect against military tribunal at Guantanamo

The USS Cole suspect against military tribunal at Guantanamo
Dan Taglioli at 12: 56 PM ET

[JURIST] The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) [official website officially listed Wednesday charges against a high-profile Guantanamo Bay [JURIST News Archive] prisoner who allegedly planned the 2000 attack on the USS Cole [JURIST News Archive], the 17 sailors dead and 37 others injured.] -Born former millionaire Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri [JURIST News Archive] fees [free of charge sheet, PDF] are Saudi before a Guantanamo military court [DOD press release] on nine terrorism, conspiracy and murder trial. Specifically al-Nashiri be calculated with the orchestration of the attack on the Cole, during the two suicide bombers an explosive-laden boat into the destroyer, bubbles rammed a huge hole in the side. The charges also claim that, that al-Nashiri for the planning and preparation for an attempted attack in the same year on USS the Sullivans was, as it in the year 2002 resulted in the death of a crew member and the release of about 90,000 barrels oil in the Gulf, in the port of Aden, and for an attack on the French of civilian tanker MV Limburg in the same port refueled. A "referral of fees" from the military commissions DOD is the mechanism that officially starts the process, leading to the appointment of an officer as a judge, then carried out a trial period of 30 days in the reference. Al-Nashiri matter was case, meaning that he could face the death penalty, if it condemns as the capital for trial. In June, the European Parliament (EP) called [official website the United States not the death penalty [JURIST report] in the case.]

The controversial history of the al-Nashiri is complications of his pursuit of custody. Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website agents confirmed [mirror report] in 2010 the existence of a secret CIA black site [JURIST News Archive] in Poland, where al-Nashiri was allegedly to mock Waterboarding and executions.] An agent found a drill close to the head and al-Nashiri was away, naked and hooded before a weapon. The allegations led the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) [advocacy website], an abuse investigation [JURIST report] in September 2010. section 948r of the military commissions Act of 2009 (PDF) [text] use in military courts prohibits evidence of "Torture or cruel, degrading and inhuman treatment," a provision that could imply potential restrictions of the Prosecutor ability, certain evidence to use, if it can be shown, that al-Nashiri was subjected to such treatment in Poland or at Gitmo. Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller denied any knowledge of such a facility [JURIST report]. Before recently Polish prosecutors which began, the potential existence of Polish CIA prison investigated in 2008, US officials [JURIST reports] question asked al-Nashiri and other prisoner Abu Zubaydah, on the existence of the plant, say that their testimony must was establishing its existence. So, in 2007, a federal judge ruled that Sudan is liable [JURIST report] in a civil suit for action of the Government, which was "USS Cole bombing caused".