Posted on: Tuesday, 1 July 2008, 06:00 CDT By Carol Rosenberg, The Miami Herald Jul. 1--The Pentagon filed death-penalty charges against a Saudi man at Guantanamo on Monday, alleging he engineered the October 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole off Aden, Yemen. Seventeen U.S. sailors were killed and 47 other people were wounded in the al Qaeda attack that crippled the $1 billion destroyer four years after it was commissioned at Port Everglades. The 11-page charge sheet sworn out by a Marine major accused Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, 43, of nine law-of-war violations, among them conspiracy, murder and supporting terror. He allegedly confessed to the crimes during years of secret CIA detention and custody overseas. CIA Director Michael V. Hayden has confirmed he was waterboarded. The charge sheet seeks to try him by military...
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