Full Story Charges Dropped Against USS Cole 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 Barack 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.
“It was her decision, but it reflects the fact that the president has issued an executive order which mandates that the military commissions be halted, pending the outcome of several reviews of our operations down at Guantanamo,” Morrell said late Thursday night.
The ruling also gives the White House time to review the legal cases of all 245 terror suspects held there and decide whether they should be prosecuted in the U.S. or released to other nations.
Obama was expected to meet with families of Cole and 9/11 victims at the White House on Friday afternoon to announce the move.
Seventeen U.S. sailors died on Oct. 12, 2000, when al-Qaida suicide bombers steered an explosives-laden boat into the Cole, a guided-missile destroyer, as it sat in a Yemen port.
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.
In his Jan. 22 order, Obama promised to shut down the Guantanamo prison within a year. The order also froze all Guantanamo detainee legal cases pending a three-month review as the Obama administration decides where—or whether—to prosecute the suspects who have been held there for years, most without charges.
Two military judges granted Obama’s request for a delay in other cases.
But a third military judge, Army Col. James Pohl, defied Obama’s order by scheduling a Feb. 9 arraignment for al-Nashiri at Guantanamo. That left the decision on whether to continue to Crawford, whose delay on announcing what she would do prompted widespread concern at the Pentagon that she would refuse to follow orders and allow the court process to continue.
Retired Navy Cmdr. Kirk S. Lippold, the commanding officer of the Cole when it was bombed in Yemen in October 2000, said he will be among family members of Cole and 9/11 victims who are meeting with Obama at the White House on Friday afternoon.
Groups representing victims’ families were angered by Obama’s order, charging they had waited too long already to see the alleged attackers brought to court.
“I was certainly disappointed with the decision to delay the military commissions process,” Lippold, now a defense adviser to Military Families United, said in an interview Thursday night. “We have already waited eight years. Justice delayed is justice denied. We must allow the military commission process to go forward.”
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. The Bush administration had maintained it did not torture.
Last year, al-Nashiri said during a Guantanamo hearing that he confessed to helping plot the Cole bombing only because he was tortured by U.S. interrogators. The CIA has admitted he was among terrorist suspects subjected to waterboarding, which simulates drowning, in 2002 and 2003 while being interrogated in secret CIA prisons. (AP)
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well that was probably about one of the last shots fired in the war on terror. a fuckin misfire. thanks to president peckerhead
Wer’e Fucked!
oh my motherfuckin…….this kenyan fuck would rather let known terrorists go that have even committed hostile acts against servicemembers which resulted in deaths……people the war is no longer overseas its here on our own turf.
Everyone has forgotten the excerpt from his book…”I will stand with the Muslims no mater which way the political winds blow” or something similar. We have GOT to get this C.O.L.B. thing in the public eye more. it’s our only hope.
He is jihadi. Plain and simple.He is a plant.Getting more and more obvious every day/every action.Watch for his brazenness to grow.This is why he wants to hurry the stimulus bill through. Passed,we will have far less tools left with which we can fight for our Liberty.
Check out http://www.norealid.com . He may really be the Anti-Christ.
Never Surrender !!
All I can do is shake my head. Do the 52% that voted for this guy even know what they have done? Of course not. Liberals are so stupid, if they threw themselves on the floor, they’d miss.
No justice for the sailors who were murdered.
Senior military judge sucks.
Obama hates the military.
This Mother Fucker!!!
I read this story somewhere else. They say he will still be held and new charges are going to be filed. Not that I believe the sack of shit. This terrorist (oops can’t say that word anymore, can we?) will end up free on some sort of technicality. Maybe the messiah will give him a stern talking to and send him on his way. He might even do the Clinton finger point.
t-party
and we watched the world as it burned past
He was al Qaeda’s Persian Gulf operations chief and the mastermind of the USS Cole bombing. You know you are fucked when your commander in chief is a direct threat to national security.
roger that Buck!!! what to do what to do….
Charges that are dismissed with out prejudice may indeed be re-filed or filed in amended form, but the case is often compromised enough by the original dismissal that prosecutors choose not to make the second attempt.
If you are in the fight and your CIC is freeing the enemy that you capture to give them another go at you, you might have to wonder if it were not a matter of self defense to not allow any enemy to leave in condition to ever be a future threat.
Hussein just giving back to his donor…money came from saudi then they demanded to release their own
This b.o. in the white house is cooking his own goose. And it smells very bad.
This b.o. in the white house is cooking his own goose. And it smells very bad.
Screw this muslim puppet!!!
T-party indeed!
The Ob is making presidential decrees, with no oversight by any branch of government.
Presidential decrees are not part of the constitution and are therefore illegal.
Like anyone here is really shocked that the “Obama” administration would let this happen. Really?
Damn……thats a smooth way of saying what I’ve been saying all along..smoke these mother fuckers in the field, after you “humanely” question them…….who needs gitmo…..
that’s what you meant right?
right on Dan….I think those of us that have never left the fucking field feel that way…dont give the libertards the opportunity to save those that want to destroy America… but then again like I said a while back….the military and all government agencies will only fold to the kenyan administrations orders because even though they are patriots, they have mouths to feed as well….so initially we thought that the military was making an initial stand to this kenyan but now you see they are not…many things happen behind closed doors…oh well it will ultimately come down to the citizens of our great country that have either severed ties to the government or have no ties to it and whole heartedly believe in our Constitution…..the true Americans!
why are my posts not coming out??????
here is a link to the individual to got the charges dismissed…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Crawford_(Pentagon)
Damn……thats a smooth way of saying what I’ve been saying all along..smoke these mother fuckers in the field, after you “humanely†question them…….who needs gitmo…..
that’s what you meant right?
Well, yeah; but if I say it my way the Obama NCSF will put me in the camp that has toilets and blankets. Your way, and you get buckets and straw. The showers might differ as well!
Thats fuckin garbage! But it sounds like pretty standard lib shit. What can I do about it?
As a former fleet sailor on a small boy and current reservist Seabee on deployment I just want to say thanks for the liberal unlubed fucking of these sailors families by Obambi. Thank you sir for serving your crazy liberal useless to the nation base insead of honoring your role as CIC. After all soldiers and sailors can’t afford to pay to play like you are used to in Chicago.
micsix - roger that! you see the ass fucking obambi is handing to the troops and civi’s in afghanistan…I am sitting here now in the MWR shaking my motherfucking head…
I guess I have come to the realisation that nothing is going to be done about ofucko’s eligibility to be potus and he will continue to ass rape all of us until there is no more sphinxter left and all of our intestines fall out of our once tight buttholes… and when that occurs….America will be no longer…something he has intended from day one…why do you think the kenyan fuck attended that anti-american church for 20yrs????? B E C A U S E he believes in ending America!!!!!!
I think this happend because the military trials did not happen quickly. If that had been handled better, they would have had justice already
micsix; I agree, it is becoming painfully obviouse Hussain is here to serve the fringe cook liberal left and the middle east. He just said the the dims to pass the bill on their own. we shall see they are getting desperate.
Join the Patriotic Resistance and march on the capital MAY 30th to restore the constitution and stop Obongos socialist agenda.
http://www.resistnet.com/groups/group/show?id=2600775%3AGroup%3A204873
WHAT THE FUCK?
MUSLIM(terrorist)TRAITOR Bin Laden has some real competition for top tango
As the sister of a Vietnam Vet who died, this makes me sick to my stomach. Let the Military do what the Military is supposed to do. What the heck happen to compassion and justice for our people and our military! This liberal garbage is going to far. Does any one think that we will be better off, more well like by other countries if we hold the trials in the general justice system. Oh yeh, that’s a real good place. One name..O.J. Give me a break. Our judicial system is so corrupted why would I have faith in it. And it’s loaded with the same bloated liberal lawyers and jury that think that have more sympathy for the killers than their victims. What a joke!
At what point will our military commanders grow some nuts and take this usurper out by whatever means necessary? It’s not treason since the SOB isn’t a legal president anyway!
NEVER DOUBTED IT!!! He is ALL for destroying our Country!
Here’s your change you stupid fucking neo-marxist.