Statements Are Focus Of Hearing For Cole Suspect
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) -- Lawyers for a Guantanamo Bay detainee are asking a judge to throw out statements that he and others made allegedly linking him to the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000.
A two-day, pretrial hearing for Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri begins Wednesday in Cuba, with a closed-circuit video feed to reporters at Fort Meade, near Baltimore.
Al-Nashiri was held for several years in secret CIA prisons. A CIA inspector general's report says al-Nashiri was subjected to waterboarding and threatened with a gun and power drill. His lawyers say statements he made under those conditions cannot be used as evidence at trial.
Defense attorneys also are challenging the admissibility of hearsay statements that investigators obtained from others about al-Nashiri's alleged involvement in the attack.
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