Posted on 08/28/2010 3:18:07 AM PDT by Scanian
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri is a man with blood on his hands.
A year before 9/11, the Saudi al Qaeda operative masterminded the bombing of the guided-missile destroyer USS Cole, killing 17 sailors as the vessel refueled in the Yemeni port of Aden.
A Guantanamo tribunal was ready to arraign him last year, but since the Obama administration took office, it's been a case of trial and error.
No trial -- plenty of error.
As the 10th anniversary of the Oct. 12, 2000, attack looms, the White House has inexplicably frozen the prosecution.
The Justice Department said this week that "no charges are either pending or contemplated with respect to al-Nashiri in the near future."
And it's not the first time the Obama White House has meddled with Nashiri's case.
Nashiri's charges were held in abeyance for nine months last year as the Justice Department conducted a review of all cases against Guantanamo detainees.
In the end, White House officials chose to discard years of careful legal work by the Navy's JAG lawyers when they removed the 9/11 suspects' cases from military jurisdiction and turned them over to the federal courts.
But Nashiri's case stayed where it was.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Because it might offend Muslims?
Too bad Bush didn’t order every Club Gitmo detainee to be executed prior to leaving office. We now face the real possibility of these animals being let out of prison.
Comment removed by ME as I don't want to be banned.
Or get a visit from those guys in Suits, Sun Glasses, and carrying MP5's.
Everything Obama touch’s turns to crap.
he has the Midas fecal touch.
It’s no wonder 70% of the public thinks that comrade zero is a muzzy.
Our AG needs to be removed.
Oh, it was 70% last week ... I think we can safely put that at 75% after this.
Maybe Nashiri is Obama’s cousin.
al Nashiri certainly likes the FBI’s James Comey, here he is discussing the Nunes memo release:
“I don’t think the director has to resign. He should be prepared to publicly discredit this cherry-picked, fake memo and expose Nunes,” added former FBI counterterrorism special agent Ali Soufan.
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