Carol Rosenberg
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Guantanamo Dispatch: Military Ends USS Cole Hearing Early for Health Emergency (opens the original)
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A military judge abruptly canceled pretrial hearings in the USS Cole bombing case at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Wednesday after the case’s skilled death-penalty defense lawyer had a health emergency and left the base. Col. Matthew Fitzgerald, the judge, had scheduled this week’s hearings to work out some final details before jury selection, which is scheduled to start on Oct. 19. But Allison Miller, representing defendant Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, departed the base on a military flight for Florida
Guantanamo Dispatch: Innocent or Guilty, Accused USS Cole Bomber May Never Go Free (opens the original)
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Lawyers for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who is charged with being a key planner of the 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole, want the military jury to hear about a unique aspect of his case: Even if the jury were to acquit him, the U.S. military could still continue to hold him indefinitely. Al-Nashiri has been in U.S. custody since 2002 and was formally charged in 2011. He has been held all this time as an al-Qaeda affiliate under the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force that Congress pass
Guantanamo Dispatch: Prosecutors Turn to Remote Testimony For First-Ever Capital Trial at Guantanamo (opens the original)
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A prosecutor told the judge in the USS Cole bombing case this week that the government expects many of its witnesses to testify at Guantanamo’s first-ever death penalty trial by video feed, probably starting early next year. Lead prosecutor Clayton Trivett said in a pretrial hearing on Sept. 23 that the government has a witness list of about 130 people for the trial of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi man who is accused of a key planning role in the suicide attack that killed 17 U.S. sailors off
Guantanamo Dispatch: Military Judge Orders Last Minute Sanity Board in USS Cole Bombing Case (opens the original)
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At the Sept. 21 hearing in the last pretrial session before jury selection in the USS Cole bombing case, we learned of a few developments that could derail or delay it. Starting with, the judge has ordered a competency exam, called a 706 Sanity Board, for the defendant, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. The judge ordered a military medical panel that includes an Army psychiatrist to evaluate the prisoner and report back by Oct. 16, the day before the court travels to Guantanamo for panel selection, which
Guantánamo Dispatch: The USS Cole Case Edges Toward Trial (opens the original)
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This report is the first of regular updates from and about the court proceedings at Guantánamo Bay, which I have been covering since 2002, first for the Miami Herald and then the New York Times. I see this new space at Just Security as public service journalism for those who are deeply interested in the military commissions that the United States created after the 9/11 attacks. Don’t look here for legal opinion or national security commentary. Just the facts. The editors and guest authors at Jus
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