The Defense Department announced Wednesday that it is seeking the death penalty against a Guantanamo Bay detainee in connection with the USS Cole bombing in Yemen more than a decade ago.
Military prosecutors have re-filed terrorism and murder charges against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, of Saudi Arabia, the first case to move forward since President Obama ordered military trials to resume at Guantanamo Bay. . . .
Al-Nashiri had been waterboarded during the Bush administration.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/20/pentagon-seek-capital-charges-uss-cole-bombing-suspect/
The candidate who pledged to end military tribunals, try terror suspects in civilian courts, close Guantanamo and end torture is now the President seeking the death penalty in a military trial of a tortured Guantanamo inmate.
Awesome.
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