Posted on 08/27/2010 3:57:13 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
The Obama administration has shelved the planned prosecution of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged coordinator of the Oct. 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, according to a court filing.
The decision at least temporarily scuttles what was supposed to be the signature trial of a major al-Qaeda figure under a reformed system of military commissions. And it comes practically on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the attack, which killed 17 sailors and wounded dozens when a boat packed with explosives ripped a hole in the side of the warship in the port of Aden.
In a filing this week in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the Justice Department said that "no charges are either pending or contemplated with respect to al-Nashiri in the near future."
The statement, tucked into a motion to dismiss a petition by Nashiri's attorneys, suggests that the prospect of further military trials for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has all but ground to a halt, much as the administration's plan to try the accused plotters of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in federal court has stalled.
Only two cases are moving forward at Guantanamo Bay, and both were sworn and referred for trial by the time Obama took office. In January 2009, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates directed the Convening Authority for Military Commissions to stop referring cases for trial, an order that 20 months later has not been rescinded.
Military officials said a team of prosecutors
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Obama is a Muslim.
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No, he isn’t. Obama is a Marxist who is using radical Islam to try to destroy the American Republic.
- JP
He is a cultural Muslim trying to please Daddy.
My thoughts exactly. They are poking the large patriotic, ever watchful, dog hoping it will snap so they can lock it up and put it down. Steady...steady...steady the elections will soon be here. Then our fight will be with voter fraud.
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A TRAIL that goes past my house?
You do what Lincoln, Wilson and FDR did. Tell the court to ef off.
Congress declared war( were still in a declared war ) and the President has all powers to suspend all rights of any and all persons, citizens or not.
More proof that Obama is a Muslim and is collaborating with the Islamic jihadists.
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