Slick Willie's legacy continues...
Posted on 04/20/2011 4:51:42 PM PDT by SandRat
WASHINGTON, April 20, 2011 – The chief prosecutor of the Defense Department’s Office of Military Commissions has recommended that capital charges be brought against the alleged mastermind behind the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, a Pentagon spokesman said today.
The charges assert that Abd al Rahim Hussayn Muhammad al Nashiri was responsible for planning and preparing terrorists to attack the U.S. Navy warship in the Yemini port of Aden, Navy Capt. Darryn James said. The Cole was in the harbor for a routine fuel stop when a small watercraft approached the ship’s port side and exploded. The bombing killed 17 sailors and wounded 40 others.
The charges also claim that Nashiri planned the attempted Jan. 3, 2000, attack on the USS The Sullivans in the same harbor, as well as the attack on the civilian French oil tanker Limburg in the Gulf of Aden on Oct. 6, 2000, which killed one crew member and caused 90,000 barrels of oil to spill into the gulf, James said.
According to a Pentagon statement released today, the prosecutor contends that Nashiri’s crimes are chargeable under the Military Commissions Act of 2009. Nashiri is at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Nashiri’s charges include terrorism, attacking civilians, attacking civilian objects, intentionally causing serious bodily injury, hazarding a vessel, using treachery or perfidy, murder in violation of the law of war, attempted murder in the violation of the law of war, conspiracy to commit terrorism and murder in violation of the law of war, destruction of property in violation of the law of war and attempted destruction of property in violation of the law of war.
Retired Navy Vice Adm. Bruce MacDonald, the convening authority, is reviewing the evidence to determine the appropriate disposition of the charges and to ensure that referral to a military commission is appropriate. Following MacDonald’s referral, a military judge would be detailed, and Nashiri would be tried before a military commission.
Hello SandRat,
Cole?
Seems a hell of a long time ago.
WHY?
Great post.
Most people don’t know that AFTER the explosion the sailors understandably feared follow-up attack and so for this reason ran to the ship’s ammo stores. Having ammo would permit them to credibly man guns that would permit for credible defense.
The Captain REFUSED to permit the distribution of live ammo to the fearful sailors. Why?
Because he feard an ACCIDENT.
I’m serious.
Abd al Rahim Hussayn Muhammad al Nashiri—better known as the alphabet guy.
Murder has no expiration date for bringing the guilty to trial.
Slick Willie's legacy continues...
Yemen was then, as it is now, a HOTBED of Islamacism. But, command didn't want to have the ship enter port in a "threatening" manner, so certain accommodations to standard inport security protocols were made. Even while at ThreatCon Bravo and about to enter into what could only be thought of as a quasi-hostile port, the ship's captain waived the mandatory briefing with the inport security and OIC. That alone should have been enough to relieve him.
Lastly, I think the DoD made a HUGE mistake when they began taking the Marines off of ships all in the name of cost-cutting. Marines train to engage the enemy in close-combat. Sailors don't. It's just that simple. And, I don't care how many gun drills you run or live-fire exercises you hold at sea, sailors just don't train for the very real person-to-person combat scenarios that play out when repelling hostile boardings or these kinds of ship-side attacks, whereas that's all that Marines train for.
Eleven years later...
Why wasn’t this vermin snuffed out by some of the CIA’s scary guys years ago?
Got me ...... !
Because of Obama.
My point was,
Why has it taken so long to get these scumbags to trial?
Poly - Ticks.
A capital punishment trial at gitmo? Will the left go into its usual historonics? I thought 0bozo promised to close Gitmo, what happened? (rhetorical)
You can count on it happening.
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