Cole Mastermind Not Off the Hook Yet

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Cole Mastermind Not Off the Hook Yet
November 21, 2009
Associated Press

Military prosecutors said Friday they plan to seek new charges against the alleged mastermind of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole.

The announcement follows Attorney General Eric Holder's decision a week ago to place Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi of Yemeni descent, among 10 high-profile detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who will face justice in the United States.

Five are headed to civilian court in New York, five others, including al-Nashiri, will go before military commissions.

The prosecutors said they are reviewing the other four cases identified by the attorney general as appropriate for trial before a military commission.

Seventeen U.S. sailors were killed aboard the USS Cole on Oct. 12, 2000, when two al-Qaida terrorists set off explosives as they pulled their fishing boat up to the destroyer.


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