Defence for U.S. warship bombing suspect focuses on Obama torture statement


  • World
  • Thursday, 06 Nov 2014

A gaping hole estimated at 40 feet wide and 40 feet high is visible in the left side of the hull of the U.S. warship USS Cole after it was attacked by terrorists in a small boat who maneuvered alongside the 505-foot destroyer and detonated explosives, October 12, 2000.

FORT MEADE Md. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's acknowledgment that the CIA tortured suspects after the 9/11 attacks arose in a pre-trial hearing on Wednesday of the prime suspect in the 2000 bombing of a U.S. warship.

Attorneys for the Saudi suspect, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, argued at the hearing in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that he should not face the death penalty unless he had access to all the evidence against him, even the part that remains classified, given the president's recent statement.

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