FORT MEADE Md. (Reuters) - A military judge refused on Monday to recuse himself from the death penalty case of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner accused of organising the 2000 bombing of the U.S. warship Cole.
The decision was in response to one of several pre-trial motions in the case against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi Arabian national of Yemeni descent. He is charged with organising the suicide bombing of the Cole that killed 17 American sailors and injured 42 in a Yemeni port.
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