2000 Attack Killed 17 U.S. Sailors; Pentagon Focuses Charges On Alleged Mastermind Get the details on the explosion of the destroyer USS Cole in the Yemeni port city Aden. (CBS/ AP) The Pentagon said Monday it is charging a Saudi Arabian with "organizing and directing" the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole - and will seek the death penalty. Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Hartmann, legal adviser to the U.S. military tribunal system, said charges are being sworn against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi of Yemeni descent, who has been held at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, since 2006. The charges still must be approved by a Defense Department official who oversees military tribunals set up for terrorism suspects. Hartmann said the allegations include conspiracy to violate laws of war, murder, treachery, terrorism, destruction of...
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