Posted on 08/30/2016 10:36:06 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A federal appeals court on Tuesday refused to halt the military commission trial of a Saudi national charged with orchestrating the 2000 attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 U.S. sailors.
The 2-1 ruling said that Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri can’t challenge the commission’s authority to hear his case until after the proceeding has run its course.
Al-Nashiri argued that military commissions only have authority over offenses that take place during an armed conflict. He said his actions were not war crimes because the U.S. was not officially at war with al-Qaida at the time of the attack.
But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said the military court was capable of deciding whether al-Nashiri’s conduct occurred “outside the context of hostilities.” …
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Sixteen years later and this still isn’t resolved?
That’s what I was thinkin. He should well past the “pushing up daisies” phase.
I would think that an attack on a military vessel is an ACT OF WAR..................
Something to do with the perp’s “religion of peace,” I’m sure.
If Obama had his way, he’d probably free him like how he freed Mashur Abdallah Ahmed al Sabri.
He should be pushing up heroin poppies by now!
AFTER the explosion on the USS Cole in fact the captain forbade distribution of live ammo.
incredibly the reason he had was he wanted to **prevent a tragedy.**
after the explosion, mind you.
there was a risk of a follow-up, finishing attack and nobody had any live ammo.
Bump
Anyone ever ask themselves how a bunch of terrorist are able to use enough explosives in a tiny boat to blow a gigantic hole in a thick armor plated war ship? What I read was that russia actually supplied a special explosive to do the job, thinking we had something to do with the sinking of their submarine the Kursk. Anyone else hear this? I also heard this was the second attempt as the first boat sunk because it was over loaded.
He’ll probably be on stage at the next Democratic National Convention, giving a speech calling Trump and his supporters racist and anti-mooselimb.
Ships like these have not been “armor-plated” for decades, preferring situational awareness and defensive weapons only.
They are glass-jawed as a result.
Well...precisely. The US may not have declared war against ISIS - perhaps they never have - but ISIS certainly has declared war against the US, making him an enemy combatant.
We weren’t ‘at war’ with Japan on December 06, 1941 either.............
See why Cankles isn’t worried?
Osama declared war against the US in 1996.
A Bradley probably has better armor than the Cole. Certainly so for an M1, let alone an M1A2.
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