Alleged mastermind of USS Cole bombing charged

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Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri has been charged with planning and preparing the 2000 attack on the USS Cole.

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Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri has been charged with planning and preparing the 2000 attack on the USS Cole.

Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was charged with the planning and preparation for the USS Cole attack that blew a hole in the warship, killing 17 sailors and wounding another 40.

The charges were referred to the Convening Authority for Military Commissions, which presides over the war crimes tribunals at the U.S. base in Cuba.

Al-Nashiri previously faced charges in the bombing, but the charges were dropped in 2009 as the administration revamped the military commission process.

Prosecutors also alleged that al-Nashiri was involved in the planning and preparation for an attack on the French civilian oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden on Oct. 6, 2002, that killed a crewmember and caused the release of approximately 90,000 barrels of oil.

Before being transferred to the prison at Guantanamo Bay in September 2006 for the second time, Al-Nashiri spent nearly four years inside the CIA

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