USS Cole bombing case called 'too tainted' for death penalty trial

[EFerrari]

Source: McClatchy

Posted on Monday, July 18, 2011
By Carol Rosenberg

The military’s case against a former Saudi millionaire accused of masterminding the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole is tainted by delay, torture and destruction of evidence, lawyers argued Friday in a bid to spare the Guantánamo captive a death penalty trial.

While he was held in a secret CIA prison, an agent revved a power drill near the head of a naked, hooded Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, who was also subjected to water boarding, a technique that Attorney General Eric Holder has called torture.

Now it will be up to retired Navy Vice Adm. Bruce MacDonald to decide whether Nashiri, 46, could be subjected to military execution if a Guantánamo jury convicts him for the al Qaida suicide bombing off Yemen. Seventeen American sailors were killed, dozens more wounded and the $1.1 billion warship was crippled in the October 2000 explosion.

“The United States should not be permitted to kill a man it has brutally tortured and subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment,” his American defenders wrote in a 21-page brief.

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[No Elephants]

1. DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE. Even a kangaroo court couldn't keep a straight face on this one.

If we purport to try him, there are no words.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

2. Just aquit him and publicly release him from custody in upstate new york...

Problem solved.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. I know of a newly-vacant mansion in Pakistan ...

A little plaster, a coat of paint, good as new. A nice little hideaway fixer-upper.

:hi:

[DCKit]

3. I'd feel a lot better about this if I knew he was guilty and went through due process.

BushCo tainted the process beyond reality.

[Iggo]

4. Whaddaya mean we kaynt kill him?!?!?!

This is America, ain't it?!?!

[KansDem]

5. "Millionaire"

Enough said...

[gratuitous]

7. I can guess why Nashiri might not like our Constitution

But I can't for the life of me understand why our military, Justice Department, and their overseers despise the Constitution so much. What better advertisement to the world would we have than to try a suspected terrorist in open court, under our rules of procedure and evidence, and convict him beyond a reasonable doubt? By the same token, how can we better show our mistrust of our own system than to subvert it through torture, destruction of evidence, and other shenanigans?

[EFerrari]

8. When you strip away that whole American justice thing

what you have left is the thuggery that a good part of the world dislikes and for good reason.