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USS Cole suspect appears at Guantanamo court to hear charges
Nov 9, 2011, 16:26 GMT
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - The man suspected of masterminding the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole was arraigned Wednesday in his first-ever appearance in public since his capture nine years ago.
Seated next to his lawyers at the end of a long table in a military court at the Nava facility at Guantanamo Bay, Saudi-born Abd al-Rahim Hussayn Muhammad al-Nashiri, 46, declined to lodge a plea, opting to do so at a later time.
Nashiri, who wore a loose, white prison-issue T-shirt, is charged with plotting the bombing of the US Navy vessel when it was docked off the coast of Yemen. Seventeen 17 US sailors were killed and 40 more were wounded in the attack, which blew a massive hole in the side of the ship.
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