Posted on 01/20/2009 2:48:21 AM PST by Cindy
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - Plans to close Guantanamo are not sitting well with the Sept. 11 victims' relatives who sat stunned while two alleged terrorists declared they were proud of their role in the plot.
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Note: I am just crying inside when I do the updates. I’m posting these updates for historical archival purposes only. May God watch over us.
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“Charges Dropped Against USS Cole Bombing Suspect”
SNIPPET: “The legal move by the Hon. Susan J. Crawford upholds President Obama’s Guantanamo order to halt court proceedings at the Navy detention center in Cuba.”
FOXNews.com
Thursday, February 05, 2009
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“Military Commissions Must Obey President’s Directive, Official Says”
By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29, 2009
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2179360/posts
ABC News:Charges Withdrawn Against Alleged U.S.S. Cole Bombing Mastermind [7:59 pm ET]
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Posted on February 5, 2009 5:20:02 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
Breaking News from ABCNEWS.com:
Charges Withdrawn Against Alleged U.S.S. Cole Bombing Mastermind [7:59 pm ET]
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February 05, 2009
“Let’s Close GITMO: Released GITMO Prisoner Kills American Teen”
SNIPPET: “This 18 year old American, Susan Elbaneh, was killed by al Qaeda as she stood outside the U.S. embassy in Yemen.”
Thanks to a special emailer for pointing to this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p1t9vi_mc8&feature=rec-HM-r2
“Pelosi: No, You Can’t Send Gitmo Detainees to Alcatraz”
(Added January 25, 2009)
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“NEFA Foundation: Al-Qaida Suicide Bomber Assessed by Pentagon as “Aggressive”, “Committed Jihadist” Prior to Release from Gitmo”
By Evan Kohlmann
(February 6, 2009, 1:22 am)
Fox and FRiends is having on a family member of the USS Cole during their next segment.
Thank you mware.
they have the man who was at the helm of the USS Cole. He is ticked off and he is retired.
Commander Lapold (sp)
Yes.
Hello, they delay the trial by 120 days and claim it will speed up the process???
Idiot
Can of worms.
I can guarantee that he is not going to be meeting with my collegue who lost her nephew who was on the 87th floor of the first tower stuck on 911.
So that's why Obama wanted Sec. Gates to stay on. Then, if/when things go wrong, he can blame it on the Bush administration. A plus would be Obama looks good being “bipartisan”.
OPINION:
Frankly, I wouldn’t want to meet with Obama if I had lost a relative to terrorism.
OPINION:
Gates is knocking himself silly being bi-partisan, and BO is blatantly demonstrating that he is a left of center Democrat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cwZjvQPZEY
“Mother of Cole Victim on Obama: I Voted for Him
I Think I Made The Wrong Decision”
(Added February 8, 2009)
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=318815022797589
“Remember The Cole”
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, February 06, 2009 4:20 PM PT
SNIPPET: “War On Terror: Charges against the mastermind behind the bombing of the USS Cole are dismissed. He will be retried, but not by a military commission that would have given him the death penalty he deserves.”
SNIPPET: “Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell announced on Thursday that Susan Crawford, the convening authority for military tribunals at Guantanamo, has made the decision to withdraw charges against Abd al-Rahim Hussain Mohammed al-Nashiri. This is the Saudi man believed to be the architect of the bombing of the guided missile destroyer USS Cole, killing 17 American sailors, as it sat in the Yemeni port of Aden.
The dismissal was politically necessary to clear the detainee docket at Guantanamo and facilitate the promised closing of the prisoner-of-war facility. The decision certainly pleases the ACLU, which argued that charges should be dropped altogether because he had been one of the three Gitmo detainees “tortured” by waterboarding.
The decision likely does not please the families of the Cole crew members who were killed. They met with President Obama on Friday. Family members of the 9/11 victims were also present.
The White House announced the president wanted “to talk with these families about resolving the issues involved with closing Guantanamo Bay while keeping the safety and security of the American people as his top priority.””
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=52990
Judge Dismisses Charges Against USS Cole Suspect at Guantanamo
By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2009 – Charges against an accused terrorist being held at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were dismissed yesterday by the judge who oversees the military commissions system, Defense Department officials said.
Susan J. Crawford, the convening authority for military commissions at Guantanamo, yesterday dismissed the government’s charges against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri in accordance with President Barack Obama’s order to temporarily halt activities there, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell told the Pentagon Channel today.
However, Nashiri isn’t going anywhere, Morrell pointed out. The suspected al-Qaida operative, he said, will remain confined at Guantanamo and could have charges brought against him in the future.
Nashiri “will remain in custody, charges can be brought against him again if the administration would choose to do so in the future, and we are fully in compliance with the executive order the president signed a couple of days after his inauguration, halting all military commissions activities” at Guantanamo, Morrell said.
The White House has tasked the Pentagon to review detention operations at Guantanamo to ascertain whether or not detainees are humanely treated according to the Geneva Conventions.
Obama is scheduled to meet with victims of the USS Cole bombing and the 9/11 attacks at the White House today.
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates this week directed Navy Adm. Patrick M. Walsh, the vice chief of Naval Operations, to lead the Pentagon’s assessment of Guantanamo’s detainee operations. Walsh is at Guantanamo now and his review is to be completed within 30 days.
Nashiri is the alleged planner of the Oct. 12, 2000, bombing of the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole when it was berthed in Aden, Yemen. Seventeen U.S. sailors died and 39 were injured in the attack.
Some family members and friends of servicemembers killed or injured in the USS Cole attack have voiced concerns that Nashiri could escape justice if the detention center is closed within a year, as is stipulated by Obama’s Jan. 22 executive order.
“We all feel for them,” Morrell said of the grieving families and friends. “The last thing anyone wants to do is victimize these people twice.”
The bottom line, Morrell said, is that Nashiri remains in U.S. custody.
“He is confined and will be until some determination is made by a court or some legal authority in the future,” Morrell said. “The only thing that has happened now is that his legal case will not proceed while this review is under way into the whole military commissions process.”
A military judge at Guantanamo on July 29 ordered that legal proceedings against Nashiri continue. The judge scheduled Nashiri to be arraigned Feb. 9. The judge’s order contradicted Obama’s Jan. 20 directive to Gates to cease referring any new cases through the military commissions process at Guantanamo Bay and to request 120-day continuances on all active cases there. Two days later, the president issued three executive orders, one of which directs the closure of the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay within the year.
Pentagon spokesman Navy Cmdr. J.D. Gordon yesterday said that Crawford’s decision regarding Nashiri “reflects the fact that the president has issued an executive order which mandates that the military commissions be halted, pending the outcome of several comprehensive reviews of our detention operations at Guantanamo.”
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Military Commissions Act of 2006
Military Commissions Fact Sheet
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