WOW! Obama drops charges against USS Cole al-Qaida bomber! (legal, spokesman, suspected)
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WOW! Obama drops charges against USS Cole al-Qaida bomber!
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon's senior judge overseeing terror trials at Guantanamo Bay dropped charges Thursday against an al-Qaida suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, upholding President Barak Obama's order to freeze military tribunals there. The charges against suspected al-Qaida bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri marked the last active Guantanamo war crimes case.
The Pentagon's senior judge overseeing terror trials at Guantanamo Bay dropped charges Thursday against an al-Qaida suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, upholding President Barak Obama's order to freeze military tribunals there. The charges against suspected al-Qaida bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri marked the last active Guantanamo war crimes case.
The legal move by Susan J. Crawford, the top legal authority for military trials at Guantanamo, brings all cases into compliance with Obama's Jan. 22 executive order to halt terrorist court proceedings at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba.
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said Crawford dismissed the charges against al-Nashiri without prejudice. That means new charges can be brought again later. He will remain in prison for the time being.
Unbelievable because not true. the article is hard to understand maybe, but it means that with this action she "brings all cases into compliance with Obama's Jan. 22 executive order to halt terrorist court proceedings at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba." "The charges against suspected al-Qaida bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri marked the last active Guantanamo war crimes case." In other words this was the last case in the lot that needed to be halted, and her dropping charges halted it.
Also note (again) that she "dismissed the charges against al-Nashiri without prejudice. That means new charges can be brought again later. He will remain in prison for the time being."
Reading the article (which I hope everyone will do):
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The legal move by Susan J. Crawford, the top legal authority for military trials at Guantanamo, brings all cases into compliance with Obama's Jan. 22 executive order to halt terrorist court proceedings at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba.
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said Crawford dismissed the charges against al-Nashiri without prejudice. That means new charges can be brought again later. He will remain in prison for the time being.
Fair enough. The man is not free and he can still be prosecuted and, if found guilty, convicted.
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The Pentagon last summer charged al-Nashiri, a Saudi Arabian, with "organizing and directing" the bombing and planned to seek the death penalty in the case.
If he's guilty they will kill him. No problem there.
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The ruling also gives the White House time to review the legal cases of all 245 terror suspects held there and decide...
...where — or whether — to prosecute the suspects who have been held there for years, most without charges.
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was captured in November, 2002. So for about 8 years legal proceedings were on hold. Understandibly, the victims' families are angry. However, if there is anyone to blame, it is the Bush Administration for sitting on this case for so long and letting the victim's families wait. If this guy is guilty (and in this DEMOCRACY you're innocent until proven guilty) and there is evidence to prove it, then prosecute him - don't sit on him for 8 years...
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Crawford was appointed to her post in 2007 by then-President George W. Bush. She was in the news last month when she said interrogation methods used on one suspect at Guantanamo amounted to torture.
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Well, at least we know she wasn't an Obama appointee.
Last edited by MIKEETC; 02-05-2009 at 09:32 PM..
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Obama drops charges against USS Cole al-Qaida bomber!
