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(Camp Justice, "which the defendants tried to issues of" terrorism "at Guantanamo Bay (French
Such as Saudi Abdul Rahim al-Nashiri accused of bombing the American destroyer "Cole" on Tuesday before a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay in a preliminary hearing designed to determine a trial date.
During the meeting, which will continue until Wednesday, the military judge, James began studying Paul ten requests submitted by the defense and prosecution, especially related to monitor the exchange of messages between the accused and his lawyer, and e-mails to the defense.
The Admiral David Woods, who was supposed to testify yesterday, ordered the end of December / December last exchange control messages between detainees and their lawyers are systematically the pretext of security reasons. In protest, commented about forty lawyers to exchange messages with their clients.
Ministry sources said that the Defense Department about a dozen relatives of the victims of the attack on the USS Cole attended the hearing in Guantanamo.
The hearings began in the Nashiri case last November, but then declined to acknowledge guilt or not guilty, to choose to postpone to a later time.
Nashiri trial - detention in Dubai in 2002 - also for the attack on the French oil tanker "Limburg" in the Gulf of Aden on Oct. 6 / October 2002. Also being tried on charges of attempted assault on another U.S. destroyer is "Salevans" when it was refueling in the port of Aden on January 3, 2000.
If convicted, may become the first Guantanamo detainee sentenced to death.
This is the first hearing of its kind held in Guantanamo Bay this year. 171 prisoners are still present in this camp, which celebrated its tenth anniversary on January 11 this, amid protests by human rights organizations.
The open call Nashiri for trial the door to future trials of prominent suspects such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who says of himself that he organized the attacks on New York and Washington DC on September 11 / September 2001.
The first issue of al-Nashiri case before a military tribunal at Guantanamo since it is the U.S. President Barack Obama in March / March last re-launch of such legal proceedings against those suspected terrorists. During the stop, the White House did not succeed in providing trials before U.S. civilian courts.
The attack on the USS "Cole" while she was anchored off the coast of Yemen in Oktober / October 2000, killing 17 U.S. sailors and injuring 40 others.
Documents released published in 2009 that al-Nashiri was arrested after a number of operations waterboarding. In 2007, the defendant said that he confessed to the attack on the USS Cole as a result.
Source: Agencies
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