Military judge ends last Guantanamo war crimes case

The senior military judge overseeing terror trials at Guantanamo Bay dropped charges against a suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, marking the last active war crimes case there, the Pentagon said today.

The decision by Susan Crawford, the top legal authority for military trials at Guantanamo, to drop charges against suspected al Qaida bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, brings all cases into compliance with US president Barack Obama’s executive order to halt terror court proceedings at the US Navy base in Cuba.