FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The Saudi man charged with masterminding the 2000 USS Cole suicide bombing that killed 17 U.S. sailors will keep his court-appointed lawyer despite reservations, he and his attorney told a U.S. military tribunal on Wednesday.
Abd al-Rahim al Nashiri, who has been held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, since 2006, told a preliminary hearing that he had wanted to dismiss the death penalty attorney, Richard Kammen, because he did not speak Arabic and was not able to tell him what transpired in closed-court sessions.
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