Judge finds USS Cole bombing defendant competent to stand trial at Guantanamo
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A military judge has ruled that Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri is mentally fit to face trial over the 2000 bombing of the US Navy ship USS Cole in Yemen. Jury selection is set to begin on 2 November at the Guantanamo Bay military commission, which is the first capital case of its kind there. Seventeen American sailors were killed in the attack.
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