Doctors to review USS Cole suspect's CIA detention records

[unhappycamper]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/08/us-usa-guantanamo-idUSBRE9170T120130208

Doctors to review USS Cole suspect's CIA detention records
By Jane Sutton
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba | Fri Feb 8, 2013 12:39pm EST

(Reuters) - CIA records documenting the waterboarding and interrogation of an alleged al Qaeda chieftain must be shown to the doctors who will decide whether he is mentally competent for trial on charges of conspiring to bomb a U.S. warship, a judge ordered.

The order, dated Thursday, ensures that the mental competency board will consider allegations that Saudi defendant Abd al Rahim al Nashiri was tortured during the four years he spent in secret CIA prisons, among other criteria.

Nashiri, 48, is accused of directing the suicide bombers who rammed a boat full of explosives into the USS Cole off Yemen in October 2000, killing 17 U.S. sailors and wounding 37. He faces murder and attempted murder charges in the war crimes tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba and could be executed if convicted.

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The CIA has acknowledged that interrogators threatened to rape Nashiri's mother in his presence, subjected him to the simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding and threatened him with a gun and a power drill while he was naked and shackled.




unhappycamper comment: It's really sad that no one is accountable..

[newfie11]

1. We are becoming the old SS nt