Posted on 10/16/2017 5:18:18 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The Supreme Court is leaving in place a decision that the alleged mastermind of the 2000 attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 U.S. sailors should face a trial by a military commission.
The court on Monday declined to take up the case of Saudi national Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri.
Al-Nashiri had sought to challenge the authority of a military commission in Guantánamo Bay hearing his case. But an appeals court ruled last year that al-Nashiri’s challenge would have to wait until after his trial. …
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Why is this p.o.s. still breathing ?
That’s what I was thinking.
No other country on the face of the earth would be screwing around with something like this 17 years after the fact.
Arabian Sea = US jurisdiction...??
He’s a combatant in a non-US place;
They should simply shoot him in the field after a really long interrogation.
Trial = I don’t understand
First Bergdahl and then this guy. Not a good week in court so far for Obama’s Islamist butt-buddies.
I thought John Corey killed the Panther.
Love, Nelson
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