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Guantanamo prisoner could face death penalty
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | September 29, 2011

Posted on 09/29/2011 3:54:13 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

A Pentagon legal official has approved charges that carry a possible death penalty for a Guantanamo prisoner accused of planning the attack on the Navy destroyer 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 ship was stopping in Yemen on Oct. 12, 2000. The United States 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 Obama, who had pledged to close the detention center.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cole; gitmo; navy; usscole

1 posted on 09/29/2011 3:54:18 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Better fry him quick, before bamalamadingdong bends over to.;.ok
*put out his fire*
(this IS afamilyfriendly site after all)


2 posted on 09/29/2011 4:02:29 PM PDT by spankalib
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wow!It only took them 12 years. Talk about a speedy trial.Then say another 15 years before he’s executed. I think he’s got a better chance of NOT dying from natural causes if they set him free in South Florida with a driver’s license.


3 posted on 09/29/2011 4:05:01 PM PDT by Calusa (The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles. Quoth Bob Dylan.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Let him ride the Mare of Steel.


4 posted on 09/29/2011 4:06:27 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I seriously doubt that there are any Guantanamo prisoners who don’t deserve the death penalty. At rate we’re going they’ll all die of natural causes before they are even indicted.


5 posted on 09/29/2011 4:18:32 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: SandRat

THE LONG SHIPS

I saw tht movie at the theater back around 1964 or 1965.


6 posted on 09/29/2011 4:23:24 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Click my name. See my home page, if you dare! NEW PHOTOS & PAINTINGS)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

As did I. Think all the Tangos should ride the Mare of Steel.


7 posted on 09/29/2011 4:25:57 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Sometimes I am suspicious of the timing of some events like this....is there an important election soon?
8 posted on 09/29/2011 4:39:10 PM PDT by jennings2004 (Sarah Palin: "The bright light at the end of a very dark tunnel!")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Even if he is convicted, our Muslim in Chief will probably pardon him.


9 posted on 09/29/2011 4:39:39 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that pretty soon you run out of other people's money" M. Thatcher)
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To: SandRat

****As did I. Think all the Tangos should ride the Mare of Steel.****

Or be thrown into a pit of hungry dogs. (THE VIKINGS.)

Na, I like the Mare better!


10 posted on 09/29/2011 4:46:49 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Click my name. See my home page, if you dare! NEW PHOTOS & PAINTINGS)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

On the other hand, if Bamster had any brains he’d have the perp executed just befor the election, just to go all “sister Souljaw” for the indy vote.


11 posted on 09/29/2011 5:09:52 PM PDT by Blado (Audemus jura nostra defendere)
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To: SandRat

I have never seen the movie but my junk draws up just looking at the picture. I think I’ll pass on that one.


12 posted on 09/29/2011 5:43:48 PM PDT by WePledge (Ich werde fur immer ein Hollenhund werden. Semper Fidelis)
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