Investigators in a speed boat examine the hull of the USS Cole at the Yemeni port of Aden, after a powerful explosion ripped a hole in the U.S Navy destroyer, killing at least 17 sailors and injuring some 30 others in 2000.(Photo: Dimitri Messinis, AP)
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- The Guantanamo prisoner
charged in the bombing of the USS Cole is boycotting his pretrial
hearing in the case to protest the way he is brought from his cell to
court.
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri has told an official at the U.S.
base in Cuba that he objects to the use of belly chains. The judge has
previously said the 47-year-old prisoner does not have to attend his
pretrial hearings but the prosecution is challenging that ruling.
A
Navy official who was not identified for security reasons said the
belly chains are used to move prisoners within Guantanamo but would not
have been used to move al-Nashiri to court Tuesday
Associated Press