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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

USS Cole Bombing Judge Denies Recusal Motion

The military judge presiding over the war crimes trial of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner charged in the attack on the USS Cole rejected a motion Tuesday by defense attorneys that he remove himself from the case.

Lawyers for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri said they don’t believe Army Col. James Pohl can be impartial because he has a financial incentive to side with the Pentagon, which pays his salary, and he is serving as the judge in other Guantanamo cases. But Pohl said at a hearing that the defense offered scant evidence to support its argument.

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