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“USS Cole Mastermind to Stand Trial at Gitmo”
by IPT News • Apr 20, 2011 at 6:12 pm

SNIPPET: “U.S. military prosecutors have re-filed charges against the alleged mastermind of the attack on the American warship USS Cole, in 2000. The perpetrator is one of three individuals who have been identified as eligible for military trials at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

Abd al-Rahim al Nashiri, a Saudi Arabian national of Yemeni descent, is accused of orchestrating the attack in 2000 in which a small, explosives-laden dinghy rammed into an American warship docked in the Yemeni Port of Aden.

“The charges allege that Nashiri was in charge of the planning and preparation for the attack on USS Cole (DDG 67) in the Port of Aden, Yemen, on Oct. 12, 2000. The attack killed 17 sailors, wounded 40 sailors, and severely damaged the ship by blowing a 30-foot by 30-foot hole in her side,” according to the U.S. Department of Defense press release.

Nashiri also is accused of coordinating the attempted attack on the USS The Sullivans in the Port of Aden in 2000 and the attack on the French civilian oil tanker, the MV Limburg in 2002. The latter attack killed one crewmember and resulted in the release of 90,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Aden. All these acts were allegedly carried out while Nashiri served as operations chief for Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).”


5 posted on 04/20/2011 3:42:42 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/20/us-usa-guantanamo-cole-idUSTRE73J5WR20110420
“U.S. wants death penalty in USS Cole attack”

WASHINGTON | Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:41pm EDT


6 posted on 04/20/2011 3:43:03 PM PDT by Cindy
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