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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