Charges dropped against Cole bombing suspect

[unhappycamper]

Charges dropped against Cole bombing suspect
By Lara Jakes - The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Feb 6, 2009 6:07:55 EST

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s senior judge overseeing terror trials at Guantanamo Bay dropped charges Thursday against an al-Qaida suspect in the 2000 destroyer 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 withdrew the charges against al-Nashiri. However, new charges can be brought again later, and al-Nashiri 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.


Rest of article at: http://navytimes.com/news/2009/02/ap_cole_trial_dropped_020509w/%2e

[DrDan]

1. "al-Nashiri will remain in prison for the time being." - that is the part the reich-wingers will

fail to mention.

They will hammer Obama on this - and conveniently forget to mention he is still in jail and future charges are still possible. Once filed - the reeich-wingers will claim it is because of their protests.