By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times
The Guantanamo Bay war crimes tribunal may stir back to life next month after the Pentagon filed capital charges Wednesday against a Saudi prisoner in the 2000 attack on the U.S. destroyer Cole in a Yemeni port.
Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, 46, must be arraigned within 30 days on the nine murder, conspiracy and terrorism charges filed by the head of the military commissions war court. The Saudi of Yemeni descent is accused of plotting the attack in which two suicide bombers crashed an explosives-laden boat into the destroyer during a refueling stop, killing 17 U.S. sailors and injuring about 40 others.
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