Updated
Updated · The New York Times · May 10
USS Cole bombing trial is indefinitely delayed
Updated
Updated · The New York Times · May 10

USS Cole bombing trial is indefinitely delayed

9 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 10
  • Judge Col. Matthew Fitzgerald postponed the Guantánamo Bay military case last month, weeks before its scheduled 1 June start, saying the delay would last months, not weeks.
  • Abd-al Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi prisoner accused of orchestrating the 2000 Yemen attack, faces charges over a bombing that killed 17 US sailors and wounded dozens.
  • The case, long complicated by the CIA's use of torture, has seen about 10 trial dates abandoned since Nashiri's 2011 arraignment and had been set to become Guantánamo's first death-penalty trial.
With torture evidence barred, what path to conviction remains in the 25-year-old USS Cole bombing case?
How does Guantánamo's new role as a migrant detention center impact the long-stalled war on terror trials?
Will the legacy of CIA 'black sites' ultimately make it impossible to prosecute key 9/11-era terror suspects?