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Article: U.S. Government Refers Charges Against USS Cole Suspect Al-Nashiri At Guantanamo
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- December 19, 2008
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The American Civil Liberties Union issued the following news release:
In one of its final moves at the Guantanamo military commissions, the Bush administration referred charges in the capital case of detainee Abd al-Rahim Hussain Mohammed al-Nashiri, who is being charged for his alleged involvement in crimes including the USS Cole bombing. The American Civil Liberties Union is sponsoring civilian attorneys to represent al-Nashiri through its John Adams Project, a partnership with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers to supplement the under-resourced military defense teams that have been assigned to Guantanamo detainees.
"The timing of the referral of these charges is ...